Category: Interview
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Collateral Drawing: ‘It’s like revealing the magic trick’
Co-curators and artists from the ongoing Collateral Drawing project reveal insights into their working processes and how exhibiting by products of their creation changes the way they think about their own practices
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Alice Anderson: ‘I don’t refuse this world, I just need to explore alternatives to live with it today’
The artist talks about her unique method of “memorising” and “recording” objects in copper wire, and explains how this helps her to slow down and maintain an intimacy with the world around her
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Odili Donald Odita: ‘I want to use colour to have an effect on the mind and body’
Known for his vibrant, large-scale, abstract paintings, the artist talks about his influences, from the crazy patterns of wallpaper and the African artefacts in his childhood home, to the exhibitions and artists who have shaped his work
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Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse
The walls of this exhibition tremble with the vibrant blooms of summer days. Gardens have inspired artists and influenced painting, from impressionism to the avant garde and beyond. Here, curator William Robinson talks about the exhibition and Monet’s erudite passion…
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Rose English: ‘Improvisation is present always, making anything’
The artist talks about her collaboration with composer Luke Stoneham and a troupe of Chinese acrobats, for her evolving work, now on show as A Premonition of the Act at Camden Arts Centre in London
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Koen Vanmechelen: ‘An artist is always arriving at something that was unknown before’
The man who turned breeding chickens into an art explains his plans to create a sustainable, diverse society, and how his new project, Biomista, will advance his aims
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Robel Temesgen: ‘Being an Ethiopian in Norway was a really interesting inversion’
In his first London show, the artist explores the Ethiopian traditions of honouring the spirit of a place or community. Two years of studying in Norway have only intensified his fascination with disappearing rituals and cultural and social fragmentation
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Virgile Ittah: ‘I think it’s in an artist’s genes – they never follow the rules’
The artist talks about her unique wax modelling technique, her current collaboration, and explains why she feels gender is no longer an issue
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Aura Satz: ‘I think of all my works as conversations’
The artist reveals some of the hidden stories that inspire her film, performance and installation works, exploring different techniques for visualising sound and seeking to recover the unheard female voice
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Pat Sachs: ‘The small, intimate scale has felt ideally suited for my visual language’
Working on drawings after labouring over collages is like taking a gallop through a vast field, says the artist best known for her tiny, torn-paper explorations of landscapes and architectural forms
