Category: Video Interview
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Nora Aurrekoetxea – interview: Rijksakademie Open Studios
Nora Aurrekoetxea focuses on her home in Amsterdam, disorienting domestic architecture to ask us to contemplate the way it shapes us and ingrains itself in our bodies and psychology
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Eniwaye Oluwaseyi – interview: Rijksakademie Open Studios
Eniwaye Oluwaseyi paints figures, including himself, friends and members of his family, within compositions that explore the transience of identity
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AYO – interview: Rijksakademie Open Studios
AYO reflects on her upbringing and ancestry in Uganda from her current position as a resident of the Netherlands, using sculpture, sound and performance to create an in-between space of ambiguous, embodied translation
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Delaine Le Bas – interview: ‘People still have expectations about what I should or shouldn’t be doing’
From the heart of her installation at the White House in east London, the Romany artist talks about her inspirations, her processes, and how she seeks to deconstruct the stereotypes, language and images that are used to exclude Gypsy, Roma…
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Shu Lea Cheang and Dondon Hounwn – interview: ‘Hagay Dreaming continually evolves and pushes forward through performance’
Speaking during rehearsals, Cheang and Hounwn reflect on the sources of inspiration for the project, on the developmental curve from its inception to its first full theatrical performance at Tate, what audiences might expect and what messages are being transmitted
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Alison Watt – interview: ‘I have spent my whole life working from life, so to work from death was a different experience’
The Scottish artist’s astounding trompe l’oeil still lifes of artefacts inspired by the life and times of Sir John Soane integrate into the architecture of Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery, creating an engaging 18th-century Gesamtkunstwerk
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Lindsey Mendick – interview: ‘My brain is not my best friend’
What is it to be a woman who doesn’t have all her shit together and to be making work that is quite salacious or tongue in cheek? Lindsey Mendick opens up
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Karolina Albricht, Basil Beattie and Lizzie Munn – interviews: ‘What abstract painting means to me’
Three artists talk about the paintings they are exhibiting in the Saatchi Gallery’s Unreal City: Abstract Painting in London
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Basil Beattie – interview: ‘passageway, corridor, ladder, staircase, tunnel: they are all words I use metaphorically with regard to other human experiences’
Rooted in abstract painting, Basil Beattie has for many years developed a uniquely powerful vocabulary of metaphoric images
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Karolina Albricht – interview: ‘I was fascinated by how an image plays on different levels: an image that describes something, and an image that can transcend, perhaps, and provide access to the divine’
Albricht discusses her ambitious multi-part painting inspired by the Eastern European tradition of Icon painting
