Category: Interview
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Raqib Shaw: ‘I really don’t give a fuck about the so-called contemporary art world’
In his converted home and studio in south London, surrounded by dogs, myriad staff, an exquisitely kept bonsai collection and apparently endless reserves of champagne, the artist discusses childhood, gardening and his route to becoming a painter
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Dana Schutz: ‘I think of the viewer as the painter’
The artist talks about deciding to become a painter when she was 14, how Alice Neel and the Velvet Underground made her want to move to New York, why she isn’t on Facebook or Instagram, and why it’s bad to…
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Michael Joo: ‘I was taken by the fact that there was a space that was inaccessible but real’
The New York-based conceptual artist talks about growing up among scientists, what drew him to working with silver nitrate, the endangered red crane in the demilitarised zone between North and South Korea
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Kate Whiteford: ‘By confronting simple questions, bigger ones emerge. That is the essence of my work’
The artist talks about her new work, now on show at the Mercer Art Gallery in Harrogate, looking at how Capability Brown transformed the English landscape through the manipulation of scale and perspective
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Alice Channer: ‘The area in between the subject and the object is the area I want to locate in my work’
The artist, who used everything from cigarette ash to microbeads to create her work, talks about cyborgs, beehives, and the problem with solid sculpture
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Cui Xiuwen: Light
Cui Xiuwen is a conceptual artist best known internationally as a video film-maker and photographer. A creator of progressive and provocative work, she began her career as a painter and has recently returned to making paintings and sculpture, exploring contemporary…
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Winifred Knights (1899-1947)
Knights was a prodigious talent, yet she has been virtually ignored for the past half a century. Now, a retrospective of her paintings at the Dulwich Picture Gallery could change that. Director Ian Dejardin tells Emily Spicer why Knights is…
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Lamia Joreige: ‘Anything you film in a certain reality at a certain moment is a diagnosis of a present’
The artist, one of six finalists included in the Artes Mundi 7 exhibition, talks about her project Objects of War, a collective history of the Lebanese civil war, and her newer “poetic essays” exploring neighbourhoods in Beirut through film, photography,…
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This is a Voice
This intriguing exhibition attempts to capture the elusive nature of the human voice, with live performances by sound artists, demonstrations, paintings and medical illustrations. Curator Bárbara Rodríguez Muñoz tells Studio International about the show
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Tim Slade: ‘The whole point about erasure is to allow you to pretend that nothing has happened’
The Destruction of Memory charts the global loss of historic artefacts through war and terrorism. It is a film that Slade hopes will change the way governments and policy-makers view such cultural vandalism
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