Category: Interview

  • Maggi Hambling: ‘Some paintings you’ve just got to cut up. There’s enough bad art in the world’

    Maggi Hambling talks about the sea, life, death and love in her work, how, despite being nearly 70, she’s still learning about painting, and why sometimes a painting has to be killed off

  • Brian Bress: ‘I come to video with the agenda of a painter’

    Brian Bress is an innovative multimedia artist who creates works that combine painting, drawing, animation, video, and performance art into a new form of expression

  • Kennedy Browne: ‘With the internet there is no final cut’

    Irish artist duo Kennedy Browne talk about how their work has been shaped by free-market triumphalism in the decades since Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan, plane-spotting at Shannon airport – and Mark Zuckerberg’s lightsaber

  • Marie Jacotey – Dolly

    One of this year’s Bloomberg New Contemporaries, 26-year-old, Paris-born Marie Jacotey is exhibiting 58 drawings on plaster in this, her first solo exhibition at the Hannah Barry Gallery

  • Matt Copson: interview

    Emerging artist Matt Copson’s alter ego is a vengeful fox named Reynard. Using ancient European folklore as inspiration, Copson has created a character that is both hateful and pitiful. Reynard has many manifestations, but at this year’s Bloomberg New Contemporaries…

  • Milou van der Maaden: interview

    Dutch artist Milou van der Maaden graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art this year and instantly caught the attention of the panellists selecting for Bloomberg New Contemporaries with her entry From A Head to A Head, a video…

  • Charles Richardson: interview

    Recent Slade graduate Charles Richardson has hit the ground running. This year, in addition to his inclusion in Bloomberg New Contemporaries, he won the coveted New Sensations prize. Richardson’s work is an intricate mix of mediums and ideas and has…

  • Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2014

    Studio International attended the opening night of Bloomberg New Contemporaries at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London to talk to those involved in this year’s competition

  • Nacho Carbonell: ‘I try to communicate to many people through objects’

    Nacho Carbonell makes collectable pieces that span the fields of art and design. On the occasion of his first large-scale solo exhibition, he talks about his creative practice and how his design for an inflatable chair, Pump It Up, became…

  • Janenne Eaton: ‘My work is deeply political’

    Melbourne-based artist Janenne Eaton talks about the inspiration behind her recent installation, Road to the Hills, her love of driving alone through the Australian landscape, and the changes digital technology has brought