Category: Video Interview
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Nneka Uzoigwe – interview: ‘I find plein air painting extraordinary because there’s so much information to capture and there are so many elements’
The artist talks about her residency at Watts Gallery – Artists’ Village responding to the work of Henry Scott Tuke – both his plein air paintings of boys on the beach, but also his interest in mythology
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genuinefake – interview: ‘I use my creative practice to try to start conversations and dialogue about access, our aspirations … and agency’
Along Folkestone’s seafront, the artist genuinefake (AKA Rachel Stella Jenkins) has conjured a temporary geodesic dome of playful community-led investigation around Folkestone’s past and future, on the site of the Rotunda, the former amusement arcade building. Studio International asked her…
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Christopher Houghton Budd – interview: ‘What’s needed here is a high street all the way from the town hall to the lighthouse, without interruption, for pedestrians’
Economist-turned-artist Houghton Budd, who moved to Folkestone seven years ago, has created a most effective artwork to illustrate his point for the 2021 triennial. He talks with Studio International about his journey towards the creation of Forgiving Light, as well…
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Charlotte Keates – interview: ‘I want my paintings to feel more like dreamscapes, that sense of deja-vu’
The artist talks about her series of paintings in the group show Just What Is It …?, at Cristea Roberts Gallery, and how they draw on memories engaging all five senses
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Bring Into Being
Mariam Zulfiqar, the curator of an exhibition of art installations at Chiswick House, says it marks a new chapter for the English Heritage site
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Claire Ashley – interview: ‘I’m not an artist who is scared about the word entertainment’
Ashley makes vast colourful, oddball inflatables. She talks about giving life to these characters, taking up space, and allowing humour and entertainment as access points to her art
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Crystal Fischetti – interview: ‘I use my whole body when I paint’
Crystal Fischetti talks about ‘coming out’ of the spiritual closet, and how she uses her whole body to paint, in a dance-like, yogic manner
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Nick Hornby – interview: ‘Liquefied photography is magical and mysterious’
Nick Hornby talks about his shift from art history to personal histories, and combining analogue and digital processes to create photo-sculptural objects
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Sara Barker – interview: ‘I tackle sculpture from the position of painting and vice versa’
Glasgow-based Sara Barker talks about how the pandemic has affected her practice and her exhibition, undo the knot, currently on show at CAMPLE LINE
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Christina Quarles – interview: ‘These works are holding onto that slow-fast contrast of a physically still world and this mental chaos’
Created during lockdown, against a backdrop of rising deaths from Covid, the police killing of George Floyd and raging fires across California, the nine new paintings in this show at Pilar Corrias are haunted by melancholy. Quarles spoke to Studio…
