Category: Interview
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Rachel Maclean: ‘I’m taking and contributing to the weird recycled ecosystem of the internet’
The artist talks about taking her inspiration from YouTube and LolCats to Britney Spears and Scottishness to explore gender, class and nationality, and explains how she transforms herself to play every role and model in her videos
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BGL: ‘In our installation, people play with money, and we like this game’
Canadian art collective BGL makes art that is playful and provocative, parodying everyday objects to comment on our material passions and obsessions with consumerism. Studio International spoke to them at the 56th Venice Biennale
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Graham Fagen: ‘Come into the garden and forget about the war’ – Venice Biennale 2015
Glasgow-based artist Graham Fagen, who is representing Scotland for the 56th Venice Biennale, has mixed Robbie Burns with Reggae in a homage to his homeland and Jamaican culture. He talks to Studio International about his work
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Catlin Art Prize 2015
Eight of the UK’s most promising arts graduates are picked each year to show at the Catlin Art Prize exhibition. Studio International went along to talk to the 2015 finalists and see their work, including that of the overall winner,…
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Brown & Son: Art That Makes Itself
Father and son Paul and Daniel Brown work together as Brown & Son, ‘Purveyors of digital images since 1968’, using computers to make art. They talked to Studio International about their collaboration and their first joint exhibition, at Watermans Art…
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Klaus Staudt: interview
A leading practitioner of concrete-constructivist art for some 50 years, Klaus Staudt was also part of the pan-European New Tendencies movement, composed of distinct voices researching similar concerns in an almost laboratory-like context
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Michal Rovner: ‘I don’t want to tell a story, I’m looking for something underneath the story’
The Israeli artist discusses the work in her current exhibition Panorama, life split between New York and Israel, her use of modern technology to present her work, and how the gap between reality and what the news presents to us…
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Theaster Gates: ‘How do you get people to see things that to them are invisible?’
In his latest exhibition at London’s White Cube Gallery, Artes Mundi prize-winner and social practice artist Theaster Gates assesses the multiple definitions of assembly, from the political and the artistic to the working-class
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Roxana Halls: ‘I often equate painting with performance’
The artist talks about her new show, Unknown Women, in which she explores concealment of identity, the different ways in which she creates a painting, and how she loves to mix and match things
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Gordon Shrigley: ‘What I’m doing now is a form of performance art that combines the space of the gallery with the standard tropes of politics’
An artist who has been concerned with concepts related to the line for more than 20 years, Gordon Shrigley explains why he is now working with performance
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