Category: Interview
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The Turner Prize 2015
The winner of the Turner Prize will be announced on 7 December. If art holds up a mirror to society, then this year’s Turner nominees cast some thought-provoking reflections
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Mat Collishaw: ‘I think human beings are always drawn to the slightly illicit’
With two concurrent exhibitions in the north of England, Mat Collishaw talks about the human race’s predilections for violence, debauchery and crime
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Vibha Galhotra: ‘I am a traveller, an observer of situations’
The New Delhi-based conceptual artist discusses the role of the environment in her practice, as well as the complex site-specific issues she chooses to explore
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Kathy Hinde: ‘I’m really interested in combining visual art and music’
The audiovisual artist and composer talks about mixing up sound and art, working with a glassblower, a software programmer and scientists, and mapping bird flight and hidden Scottish burns
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Francisco Vidal: ‘It’s an artist’s role to dream’
The artist’s colourful paintings and his relaxed persona belie the inspiration behind his work. But while war and violent revolution lie at the heart of much of his art, so, too, do hope and a heartening optimism
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Alice Cunningham: ‘The quarries were my biggest inspiration’
The artist talks about her experience of learning to work with marble from Michelangelo’s preferred quarry and her determination to remain sensitive to the form and the surface as a whole
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Clifford Ross: ‘I indulge in extreme photography’
He is always looking for the fullest expression of his conception and will follow it past any sane point, he says of his astonishingly ambitious exhibition, Landscape Seen & Imagined, now at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art
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Kapwani Kiwanga: ‘It is always great to be true to yourself’
Kapwani Kiwanga has been named as the commissioned artist of the Focus Section at the Armory Show 2016, which looks at art from African perspectives. She currently has a solo show at the Galerie Jérôme Poggi in Paris. Here, she…
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Cayce Zavaglia: ‘I have always wanted my work to be about the portrait and the process. I strive to keep these two aspects of painting in balance’
The artist talks about painting, embroidery, close relationships and how her studio practice develops through time
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Thomas Heatherwick: ‘Art is like a hovering cloud of energy and attention that can find itself almost anywhere’
The designer and founder of Heatherwick Studio talks about growing up with Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase outside the loo, sending handmade Christmas cards, and why he wants to apply a sense of specialness to unlikely places
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