Category: Interview
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Petra Cortright: ‘I wanted to raise questions about the way we view women in a digital landscape’
The artist talks about moving from working on computers to painting, linking the two worlds to produce something physical translated from the digital, the importance of layering, surface, and light and making work out of computer errors or spam
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Chudamani Clowes: ‘I wanted to show immigration and migration in a positive light’
The artist talks about immigration, her personal connection to west London and the human tragedies that have inspired her most recent work
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The art behind the activist: Adrian Locke talks about Ai Weiwei
A rebel, an iconoclast and a playful symbolist – Ai Weiwei is all these things, but surely history will remember him as one of China’s most influential dissident artists. Curator Adrian Locke talks about Ai’s latest exhibition at the Royal…
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Judy Chicago: ‘I’ll leave it to others to change the world’
The artist talks about her career trajectory, the continuing need for feminist art, and the way in which she hopes to spend her remaining years
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Jonas Mekas: ‘I have a need to film small, almost invisible daily moments’
The legendary independent film-maker talks about avant garde, utopia, his latest projects, the importance of history and improvisation, and why he rarely films anything outside his close circle of friends
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Wilmer Wilson IV: ‘Moving between mediums is my way of remaining nimble’
The artist explains some of his performances, his interest in intervening in monuments in public spaces, why he uses detritus from the streets, and how he uses his body to push back against social and cultural control
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Jennifer Campbell and Chloë Manasseh: ‘We’re both interested in the temporal state of the landscape’
The artists talk about how they explore the conflicting psychological and physical states of being ‘grounded’, Manasseh through the diverse landscapes of the desert, and Campbell through the metropolis
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Hank Willis Thomas: ‘Ideas crop up out of thin air, like bubbles, and I’m just trying to trap them’
The artist talks about grabbing people’s attention to make them think about things they normally wouldn’t think about, recapturing or re-experiencing historical moments, and how he still has the mind of a photographer, even if that’s not where he always…
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Anna Dumitriu: ‘Bacteria are living organisms that you can work with – almost in a painterly kind of way’
Not many artists would want to work with bacteria, smelly faecal transplants or anthrax, but Dumitriu is at the crossover between science and art, as happy in a microbiology lab as she is in a studio. Here, she talks about…
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Vincent Meessen: ‘In the western world, we still think that we created everything’ – Venice Biennale 2015
Eleven artists come together to reflect on colonialism and its aftermath in a complex, multimedia, collaborative exhibition, which pulls apart the notions of origin and authorship
