Category: Video Interview

  • Lewis Biggs: interview

    Lewis Biggs is this year’s curator of the Folkestone Triennial, invited to join after 11 years as chief executive and artistic director of the Liverpool Biennial. He was also director of Tate Liverpool from 1990-2000. Biggs speaks to us about…

  • Alastair Upton: interview

    Alastair Upton is chief executive of The Creative Foundation, an independent visionary arts charity seeking to rejuvenate Folkestone through creative activity. As well as restoring more than 90 buildings in the Creative Quarter and building the Quarterhouse arts venue, they…

  • Ed Atkins: interview

    Anna McNay spoke to Ed Atkins about his current exhibition at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery, where his film Ribbons (2014) is showing alongside related installations of text and image

  • Anita Taylor: interview

    Anita Taylor, dean of Bath School of Art and Design at Bath Spa University and the founder of the Jerwood drawing prize project, talked to Studio International about her own drawing practice, the importance of drawing in education, and the…

  • Rose Wylie: interview

    Studio International visited the painter Rose Wylie in her studio in Kent, to see the new paintings she’s working on. Wylie, who is 80 this year, and has painted all her life, has also taught in further education, and, with…

  • Ben Quilty: interview

    Ben Quilty’s first solo London show opened at the Saatchi Gallery on 4 July, celebrating his winning of the inaugural Prudential Eye Award, 2014.

  • Marina Abramović: interview

    In 2010, Marina Abramović took over MOMA in New York for a 736 hour and 30 minute long performance, The Artist is Present, during which time visitors could sit opposite her, meeting her gaze and feeling her energy.

  • Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2014

    Studio International visited this year’s Royal Academy Summer Exhibition before the party began, and talked to some key figures behind the scenes, responsible for this eclectic display of over 1,200 works of art. Some of the works are by renowned…

  • Ben Johnson: interview

    Studio International visited the Alan Cristea gallery to talk to the painter Ben Johnson. This is his second exhibition at the gallery, comprising five new paintings of half-real, half-imagined interiors. Born in Wales, a graduate of the Royal College of…

  • Shezad Dawood: interview

    The multidisciplinary artist Shezad Dawood’s first solo London show opened at the Parasol Unit in April this year. Titled Towards the Possible Film, Dawood’s practice tells us stories that draw from multicultural sources while dancing with issues that concern humanity.…