Category: Interview
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Rose Blake: ‘I have always found it easier to express a thought through a picture rather than words’
The illustrator and artist talks about her recent exhibition at the Rebecca Hossack Gallery, drawing by hand and directly into the computer, the perils of being freelance – and why being Peter Blake’s daughter can be embarrassing
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Niamh McCann: ‘I consider making a form of thinking’
The internationally acclaimed Irish artist talks about her latest show, Just Left of Copernicus, how she has been influenced by the work of German architect Hans Poelzig, and whymaking is the true test of one’s ideas
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Eva Langret: ‘As more and more exhibitions are produced in Africa, by African curators, the need for the rest of the world to “get it right” will become redundant’
Eva Langret, head of exhibitions for London’s Tiwani Contemporary gallery, discusses the current surge of interest in Africa’s contemporary artists and calls for an end to reductive, pan-African exhibition frameworks and more recognition of the individual artist
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Ruth Root: ‘I love to see how artists create such a joy from colour’
The painter talks about her first US solo exhibition, at the Aldrich Contemporary Museum of Art, her love of colour and Photoshop, and making a huge change in her work
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Jompet Kuswidananto: ‘I am dealing with a culture that is never really fixed’
The Indonesian artist explains his work for Sonica 2015 and how he seeks to use sound installation and performance to evoke the feeling and experience of living through a political regime change
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Courtney J Martin: ‘Robert Ryman makes a lot of difficult things look incredibly easy’
The curator of Dia: Chelsea’s Robert Ryman exhibition, discusses the seminal American artist’s six-decade career, and explains the importance of bringing Ryman’s work to new audiences
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Elisabeth Frink: The Presence of Sculpture
Focusing, for the first time, on the challenges of making work, on the one hand privately and, on the other, on commission for outdoor public display, this exhibition brings together more than 70 of Elisabeth Frink’s sculptures, plasters and drawings,…
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Liu Ye: ‘Dick Bruna is more important to me than Da Vinci’
The Beijing-based artist on how seeing Bruna’s Miffy was seeing himself in a mirror, and why the most important thing about a painting is that it requires the viewer to spend a lot of time looking at it
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Unorthodox
New York’s Jewish Museum courts the unconventional in a powerful group show that its curators claim ‘is not only about artistic independence but ultimately about individual freedom’
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Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa: ‘I just create works that give a sensation of something’
The artist talks about his current exhibition, God’s Reptilian Finger, and the inspiration he drew from Guatemalan history, YouTube videos, The Book of Mormon and conspiracy theories
