Category: Interview
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Basim Magdy: interview
Basim Magdy reveals a world of colour in his films and photographs. The critically acclaimed Egyptian artist uses a poetic language of image, text and sound in his narratives of collective memory and forgetfulness. Science, futurology and the natural world…
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Lynn Hershman Leeson: ‘I’ve always been interested in the exchange between reality and virtual reality’
The US artist Lynn Hershman Leeson, known for her performance art and film-making, talks about her latest show, Civic Radar, making films with Tilda Swinton, and her fears about bio-engineering
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Trish Wylie interview: ‘Wylie provides a hotline to the gods of the silver screen’
Studio International has come to north west London to visit the painter Trish Wylie in her studio.
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Thomas Allen: ‘I want my cave to offer an escape’
Thomas Allen talks about his background in sociology, how his latest work relies on the scribbles of perfect strangers – and why termites are so fascinating
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Gail Pickering: ‘I was interested in the histories of community video production’
The London-based artist Gail Pickering talks about her recent major exhibition at Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, which combined visual art, installations, videos, screenings and performances, and the ever-changing, ever-static, ever-replicating nature of images
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Valerie Hird – interview: ‘Drawings are documents of honest and wonderfully human communication’
US artist Valerie Hird studied archaeological illustration and then painting before becoming a compulsive traveller. Her work, she says, is deeply rooted in multiple cultures, the nomadic icons she uses filtered through her own cultural roots to create a transcultural…
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Jessica Stockholder: ‘Art changes, taking account of the present moment’
Jessica Stockholder talks about her work, which combines painting, sculpture, installation and language in a unique creation that calls for a close personal encounter with the viewer
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Nina Lola Bachhuber: ‘The creative process is like a virus in my brain’
The Munich-born artist’s delicate drawings depict invented characters that are then given form in sculptures. She explains her methods and her choice of materials and says a humorous air of surrealism leavens a wild energy in her works
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Sam Belinfante: ‘For galleries, sound is still a terrifying prospect’
Sam Belinfante talks about the role of listening in the visual arts and the challenges he faced in curating this engaging and impressive show, which features some of the key figures in aural art today
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Dan Coombs: ‘Art is grounded in reaching for the real’
The artist talks about how he hoped his recent exhibition, Suspicion, would answer his 20-year quest to find out what narrative in painting is, his regret at the demise of life drawing, and teaching at a new private art school
