Tag: Interview
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John Gibbons – interview
In his Basildon studio, sculptor John Gibbons talks about light, the Big Bang, the importance of openness and modelling Winston Churchill’s hands
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Eva Rothschild – interview
The artist talks about the obtuse nature of sculpture, the value of a prolonged gaze, masculinity as a social and spatial concern, and the difference between material illusion and confusion
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Maryam Tafakory – interview: ‘We weren’t just learning to draw – we were tasting pleasures we weren’t allowed’
The film-maker collages found footage with the cinema of post-revolutionary Iran to explore censorship and prohibition. She discusses her life growing up in Iran, her parents’ refusal to let her attend art school, and what winning the 2024 Film London…
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Jim Dine – interview: ‘I never stop looking. I never stop examining. I never stop inventing from what I see’
Jim Dine talks about his six-decade-long career, his various mediums of expression, his use of Pinocchio as a metaphor for art, and how he will never give up on a work
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Oluwole Omofemi – interview: ‘In my paintings, I try to tell the black community to embrace their beauty, to embrace their colour’
The Nigerian artist talks about how he uses hair – specifically the afro – as a metaphor for freedom and power, and a symbol of identity
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Carmen Neely – interview: ‘I’m interested in the process of what is lost and gained in translation’
The artist talks about the role of collecting, (re)creating characters and identities, translation, and the seriousness of play in her practice
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Jake Wood-Evans – interview: ‘I don’t think you can make a successful painting unless you are bold and commit to the action of taking away and risking something’
Taking great baroque altarpieces as his starting point, Jake Wood-Evans marks out his composition, applies his paint and then starts to move and remove it, leaving abstract traces, like the passing of time
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Anna Boghiguian, interview, Artes Mundi 8
Anna Boghiguian talks about her travels and research for A Meteor Fell from the Sky, the founding of India’s first steel business, Tata Steel, and how this material is currently being manipulated by assorted superpowers to influence global economies and…
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Otobong Nkanga, interview, Artes Mundi 8
Otobong Nkanga talks about her inspirations for the works on show at Artes Mundi 8, and her enduring preoccupations with the reciprocity or interconnectedness of emotion and action around the world
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Patricia Guzman, interview
Intersection: International Art and Culture Arthur M Sackler Museum of Art and Archaeology at Peking University, Beijing 27 May – 27 August 2018
