Category: Interview
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Lydia Gifford: ‘I’m learning how to let go. At times it feels like something’s being wrenched from you’
The British artist says her work is a continually generating material mass that is more about trying to catch movement than trying to make work
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Jonn Herschend: ‘We can use humour seriously in art to push agendas forward’
Film-maker and experimental publisher Jonn Herschend explains why Don Quixote has been such a major influence on him, why he relishes making films to show in galleries, and how growing up in an 1880s theme park shaped his work
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Frances Walker: ‘For me, art is all about being able to communicate with someone I haven’t even met’
The Scottish painter Frances Walker, now in her 80s, talks about her time as an art teacher, her fascination with Pieter Bruegel, and visiting Antarctica
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NS Harsha: ‘I am like a cook. I love to make a dish, offer it to the people, and wait for a reaction’
The Indian artist NS Harsha on how his latest paintings embody the notion of ascent, an idea he says has been hijacked by religion, why he prefers flatness to perspective, and why he has a duty to be mad
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Penny Slinger: ‘Being different is just who you are. What you do with it is up to you’
Penny Slinger on how Tantric art changed her life, dealing with sexual identity in art, using her body as both subject and object in her work, and a lifetime of crossing boundaries
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Making It: Sculpture in Britain 1977-1986
In the purpose-built Longside Gallery at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, the Arts Council Collection has brought together the work of 40 artists from between 1977-1986, a period that saw the emergence of a new young generation of British sculptors
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Tina Keane: ‘With film, you never quite know what you’re going to get’
Multimedia artist Tina Keane talks about her early work, the influences that have developed her practice, and her primary concerns as an artist making work today
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Diana Thater: ‘When someone walks in, they are part of the work. They’re inside the work of art’
US new media artist Diana Thater explains what drew her to the subject of her latest work, the monkeys of the Galtaji Temple in Jaipur
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Allora & Calzadilla: Intervals
In this exhibition of new and recent projects, Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla explore the history and origins of human music not only as a means to define the boundaries between man and animal, but also to communicate across their…
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Marvin Gaye Chetwynd: ‘But is it art? I don’t even care’
Performance artist and Turner-prize nominee Marvin Gaye Chetwynd explains why she turned her attention to designing a children’s play area for a London leisure centre
