Category: Interview
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Patricia Cronin: ‘A silent protest can be quite powerful’ – Venice Biennale 2015
Patricia Cronin talks about Shrine for Girls, her installation at the Venice Biennale that commemorates three girls raped in India, 276 schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram, and the women of the Magdalene laundries, and what compelled her to speak out
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Eileen Cooper: ‘Artists are real sponges. We take things and absorb them and eventually use them in our work’
The artist talks about having a retrospective at the Royal Academy at the same time as showing in its Summer Exhibition, critics’ sometimes overzealous interpretation of her works and her love of materials and process
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Geoffrey Eastop: ‘The character of the mark describes the object’
Geoffrey Eastop – his creative legacy. Studio international visited Ecchinswell in Hampshire – to view Geoffrey Eastop’s Open Studio. We had arranged to interview Eastop, but very sadly he died at the age of 93, on Christmas Day 2014, some…
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Chloe Dewe Mathews: ‘I wanted to bring the viewer in, so they become part of the congregation’
Chloe Dewe Mathews’s Tate commission, Congregation, looks at south London’s African churches, capturing the community in the physical and emotional act of worship. She talks about what motivated her to video the congregations and why the new Bosse & Baum…
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Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: ‘Maybe I’m not as interested in people as I thought I was’
The artist, whose latest exhibition, Verses After Dusk, is on at the Serpentine Gallery, London, talks about how she makes her paintings timeless and placeless, and her interest in the nature of painting itself and what that does to the…
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Cecily Brown: ‘In a way you can see things more clearly when they’re small’
The artist talks about her latest exhibition, The English Garden, explains why it is a lot harder to make a small painting than a big one, why the surface of a painting is so important for her, and how she…
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Sarah Lucas: I Scream Daddio – Venice Biennale 2015
Sarah Lucas came to prominence in the 90s with the generation of Young British Artists, but it has taken her until now, at the age of 52, to be invited to represent Britain at the Venice Biennale. Curator Richard Riley…
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On My Way – Venice Biennale 2015
As a parallel event to the Venice Biennale, a group of artists from Russia present an exhibition that juxtaposes works made in new and traditional media, further undermining the principle of media-specificity. Studio International spoke to some of the artists
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Jake Chapman: ‘Show me a Hitler and I’ll draw on it’
Having unveiled the sinister Sturm und Drang at Ekebergparken Sculpture Park, Oslo, one half of artistic duo the Chapman Brothers discusses the merits of artistic thievery, the definition of beauty, and Adolf Hitler
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Rafaël Rozendaal: ‘I see the same intensification of reality in Mondrian and Mickey Mouse’
The artist, who now has hundreds of websites to his name, talks about using the internet as his canvas, uploading our minds, and why he makes moving images that have no beginning or end
