Tag: Art on the Underground
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Shanti Panchal – interview: ‘It’s a meditative process, a layering of colour, sometimes 10 or 15 layers’
The artist discusses the enduring power of painting, the evolution of his watercolour technique, the influence of his childhood landscape on palette and subject, and the importance of persistence
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Joy Labinjo – interview: ‘When people speak of multicultural London, it’s something you can really see in Brixton’
For her first public commission at Brixton underground station, the young London-based artist reflects on the importance of the hair salon in her own life, as well as within black British female culture more widely
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Alexandre da Cunha – interview: ‘All my work is about combining things and making them have a conversation, or sometimes an argument’
The artist discusses his use of found objects, the place of autobiography in his work, his fascination with concrete and the challenges he faced while developing his installation for the Northern line extension in Battersea, south London
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Anthony Luvera – interview: ‘Photography is a way of telling stories about the world’
Luvera is the editor of Photography for Whom?, a new journal focusing on community photography projects. Here, he talks about lesser-known works from a movement that began in the 1970s, as well as contemporary practices
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Aliza Nisenbaum – interview: ‘I was torn between wanting to be a social worker or a painter’
The Mexican-born, New York-based artist talks about her first UK public commission, a mural at Brixton underground station, which offers an intimate portrayal of Transport for London staff as part of the Art on the Underground series
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Eleanor Pinfield: ‘London – and London Underground – deserves to have the best artists in the world’
Pinfield is Head of Art on the Underground, which has commissioned work by Cindy Sherman, David Shrigley and Assemble, among others. She talks about this year’s lineup of female artists and the desire to bring art to millions of travellers
