Category: Interview
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Daniel Zolli: ‘Competition was in the air these sculptors breathed. It could be a fight to the death, artistically speaking’
As the Museum of Biblical Art hosts this momentous exhibition of renaissance masterpieces, co-curator Daniel Zolli explains why Florence Cathedral’s sculptural embellishments are such masterful and enduring treasures
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Paul Chan: ‘Times have changed, and I have changed, and I wanted something else’
Paul Chan is a versatile artist and writer, working in video, installation, publishing and the internet, whose work probes our assumptions about the nature of visuality and visual art
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Five Issues of Studio International at Raven Row
Studio international visited Raven Row in East London to talk to writer and curator Jo Melvin about the exhibition she has curated titled Five Issues of Studio International
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Hadieh Shafie: ‘I take things from my culture and marry them to my western art education’
Hadieh Shafie makes transformative objects that hover between painting and sculpture, integrating her roots in Persian culture and her training in the west
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Marisa Williamson: ‘I want to make history alive in people’s worlds’
The performance artist talks about leaving Los Angeles to start a course at the Whitney Museum in New York, and her latest project, in which she takes on the role of Sally Hemings, slave and mistress to President Thomas Jefferson
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Andrea Mason: ‘If I had to be categorised really simply … I am an artist who writes’
Artist and writer Andrea Mason talked to us from her studio in Camberwell, south London about Literary Kitchen, the creative writing enterprise she founded, her collaboration with Philippe Bradshaw and the inspirations behind her current research and writing as art…
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Ilana Halperin: ‘Drawing is a trace fossil of a moment, an idea, proof of life’
The artist, whose work is bound up with geological phenomena, explains the excitement of holding a meteorite older than the Earth, her obsession with the Eldfell volcano, and why gallstones are important to her art
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Sheila Hicks – interview: I’ve enjoyed a whole career of being an outsider
The American-born artist Sheila Hicks invited us to join her on her brightly coloured pigmented bales in her site-specific installation at the Hayward Gallery Project Space, where she asked us if we knew the difference between a carrot and a…
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Kehinde Wiley: ‘I think ideas are just as important as the material practice of painting’
African-American artist Kehinde Wiley talks about the practice of painting as a conceptual tool to express his worldview and ideas that inspire him
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Helen Flockhart: ‘Art doesn’t have to be large to be powerful’
The Scottish painter on her time at Glasgow School of Art in the 80s, being influenced by conventional artists as well as models from knitting patterns, and how she produces her detailed, labour intensive works
