Category: Interview
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Anna Perach – interview: ‘I am always searching for that magic ingredient’
The artist talks about why she is more like Sergei Diaghilev than Taylor Swift, how she explains the incest and murder in Greek mythology to her son, and what led to her interest in tufted fabric
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Gabriella Boyd – interview: ‘I work through intuitive and formal problems until I get to a believable emotional space’
The artist shares the experiences and educational journeys through which her layered and intimate paintings have evolved, revealing interior and exterior worlds in a richly emotive palette
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Mali Morris – interview: ‘A phrase that I use as a mantra is “What if?”’
In the run up to her exhibition at Hatton Gallery, Morris talks about her processes of applying and removing paint and the dynamic between planning and chance
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Liorah Tchiprout – interview: ‘Painting is terrifying!’
As her second solo show arrives in London, the printmaker and painter discusses her unconventional path to artistic success, the joys of Yiddish literature and her ‘pseudo-pantheon’ of homemade dolls
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Selva Aparicio – interview: ‘I have worked a lot with mourning. It is my whole life’
Aparicio has had a packed year, with her first major solo show in Chicago and two works commissioned in Belgium. The second, unveiled in Ypres this month, reflects the fragility and preciousness of life – and not only for those…
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Flora Yukhnovich – interview: ‘I’m always looking at history through a kaleidoscope of contemporary references’
Where better to view the work of contemporary rococo-inspired painter Flora Yukhnovich than at the Wallace Collection, where they hang proud among the canvases and decorative items that have long inspired her? She tells us about her work and her…
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Goshka Macuga – interview: ‘I wanted to invite viewers to consider the thin veil that separates past horrors from current realities’
Macuga, whose exhibition Born from Stone is now on view at the London Mithraeum, discusses the potent allure of caves for the human psyche, a complicated relationship with her native Poland and the inexorable reiteration of violence throughout history
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Lucía Pizzani – interview: ‘Come on, look at me, I’m here. We both are. We are beings and we are alive’
The London-based Venezuelan artist talks about her commission at Harewood House, her exhibition at Cecilia Brunson Projects and her inclusion in the curated ceramics section Smoke at Frieze London 2024
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Hetain Patel – interview: ‘Getting to that essence of creation, which is self-expression: that is why this project exists’
Alongside the artist’s own work, which includes a carpet-covered Ford Escort, is a cornucopia of submissions from artists, crafters, collectors and hobbyists, including elaborate cosplay costumes, football shirts, kites and even a Lego underground railway. Here, Patel takes us behind…
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Garth Evans – interview: ‘There has to be the sense that the physicality of one’s being is engaged’
In the lead up to his 90th birthday, the sculptor talks to Sam Cornish, curator of A Place in the World, his current exhibition in Mexico, about the role of colour in sculpture, the necessity of working without concern for…
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