Category: Interview
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Emma Cousin: ‘Humour is the most important thing’
Studio International visited Transition Gallery in east London to speak to Cousin about painting, inspiration and teaching her grandma how to swim
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Nathan Cash Davidson: ‘I’m two different artists in the same person’
The artist discusses his current exhibition at the Hannah Barry Gallery, his interest both in recreating the past and in sci-fi, using collage to help create his compositions, and what it is to be both a painter and a rapper
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Helen Sear: ‘It’s almost like the landscape is imprinted on the figure’ – Venice Biennale 2015
In her exploration of mortality and temporality, Helen Sear seeks to disrupt the single-point perspective of the camera. She talks about her literary and filmic influences and how even the personal, poetic and local can strike a universal chord
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Jeanne Masoero: ‘My work is about trying to find structures, a kind of contained chaos’
The artist explains how her interest in the Mayan civilisation led her to use layers in her work. Typically, she says, she spends three months on one piece, gradually building up the layers in what she calls her ‘landscapes of…
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Susan Cianciolo: ‘Everything I make is so sacred and it’s all about the process of making’
The artist talks about the Fluxus boxes in her latest exhibition, opening a textile store in Mississippi, and her early years in fashion design
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Mark Fairnington: ‘The work I do with scientists echoes their speculation and observation rather than any ensuing claim to truth’
The artist talks about his work researching natural history collections, how he crosses the divide between art and science, and his deadpan English brand of surrealism
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Sergio Camargo: Mármore
Sergio Camargo (1930-90) was a prominent artist in Rio de Janeiro, where he was born, and gained international recognition at the Venice Biennale (1966 and 1982). Working extensively in France and Europe, Camargo was a master of modular geometric constructions,…
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Herman de Vries: ‘My guru is a squirrel’ – Venice Biennale 2015
Herman de Vries, whose work spreads far beyond the confines of the Rietveld pavilion, explains why he looks to this creature for guidance in every day living, noting the importance of nature as mother, truth and teacher
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Sheikha Lateefa bint Maktoum: ‘I am a veiled woman, so it’s a natural process to have veiled women in my work’
The founder of Tashkeel, Dubai’s first public studio space for artists, talks about her hopes for the centre, being a role model for young women in Dubai, and how being a mother has changed her pace of work
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Sophia Narrett: ‘I see the sewing process as akin to drawing’
The artist talks about the process of making her embroideries, why she uses pop culture for source material and why narrative is so important to her
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