Category: Interview

Leo Robinson – interview: ‘Human beings need meaningful symbols and narratives in order to understand themselves and their shared connections’

Robinson, whose exhibition Dream-Bridge-Omniglyph is now at the London Mithraeum, considers his reimagining of arcane lost worlds, Jungian dream theory and the potential curse incited by layers of ancient mythologies being incorporated into a contemporary temple of finance
Outi Pieski – interview: ‘Contemporary art museums in general are spaces for dreaming and experimenting’

Small carved figures, knotted fringes and historic hats represent Pieski’s Sámi heritage as do her luminous painted landscapes and they work powerfully in her show at Tate St Ives to highlight systemic injustices to land and people
Ronald Davis – interview: ‘Two artists who use perspective in their work are Duchamp and Davis. I’m kind of proud of that’

Davis talks about his art and how he started out in the 1960s, his friendship with Judy Chicago, playing chess with David Hockney and having a Scotch with Clement Greenberg
Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran – interview: ‘Part of creating the work is to explore those lines between ambiguity and familiarity’

A melange of multilimbed, fertility, guardian, protector and warrior figures animate Glasgow’s Tramway in an ambitious installation for the Sri Lankan-born, Australian artist in his first UK solo show
Andrew Cranston – interview: ‘Trust in things around you being the stuff of art’

As his first public exhibition opens in Wakefield, the brilliant Scottish painter talks about Franz Kafka, DH Lawrence, fried eggs and punctums
James Lingwood and Michael Morris, former Artangel directors – interview: ‘The art world audience was for us the least interesting audience’

Their legacy includes Rachel Whiteread’s cast of a terraced house, Roger Hiorns transformation of a council flat into a blue crystal cave and Michael Landy’s destruction of all his possessions in a department store window. They discuss how the art…
Jake Grewal – interview: ‘I don’t know where I make work from other than my experience and emotional response’

Grewal, whose compelling first solo institutional exhibition is now showing at Pallant House Gallery, discusses his painterly exploration of self through an amalgamation of automatic writing, direct, in-the-moment observation and a close attunement to his most personal experiences
Bruce Munro – interview: ‘I was constantly telling people about this large-scale light project that I had to do at Uluru at all costs. I was obsessed’

Munro dreamed of installing Field of Light in the Australian desert. He explains how the monumental installation, involving 52,000 solar-powered lights, became a labour of love that took 24 years to come to fruition, saw him remortgage his house and…
Ibrahim Mahama – interview: ‘It’s not so much about what you produce, but about the relationships that are created in the process’

He is showing at the Bienal de São Paulo and the Chicago Architecture Biennial and is artistic director of this year’s Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts, but his real passion, he says, is the creative and cultural infrastructure he is…
Sara Reisman – interview: ‘This was an opportunity to engage with contemporary issues that interest our members and to work with artists and architects from the larger art community’

Sara Reisman, chief curator at the National Academy of Design, talks about the institution’s 200-year history and its aims for the future, and picks out some favourites from its current show, Drawing as Practice