Tag: Louise Bourgeois
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Anna Ray: Fibre and Form
This joyous explosion of colour, pattern and entangled loops of fabric leaps off the white walls of the gallery, banishing all thoughts of doom and gloom, and embodying the power and energy of art as a healing form
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Coral Woodbury – interview: “The work I’m doing is approaching death, making peace with death’
Woodbury talks about her solo show at HackelBury Fine Art and what led her to use old books to redraw the history of art and make the invisible visible
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Cathie Pilkington – interview: ‘It’s great to have a title that makes people think’
The artist talks about the importance of democracy in her practice, how she feels she sits – or doesn’t! – within the patriarchal tradition, and how she has a resistance to finalising a work and defining where it begins and…
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Trulee Hall – interview: ‘When I say “whore”, I wouldn’t say that it’s a bad word’
Trulee Hall talks about her multimedia practice, her views on sex and voyeurism, and how she hopes her giant, golden corn-on-the-cobs and dancing, milk-squirting boobs will offer visitors a new experience
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Nalini Malani – interview: ‘The future is female. There is no other way’
Malani won the Joan Miró Prize last year and the resulting exhibition, You Don’t Hear Me, is now on in Barcelona. She has also just been awarded the first National Gallery Contemporary Fellowship. She explains why telling and retelling stories,…
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Andrew Litten – interview: ‘I like the feeling that my work is emotionally varied and full of raw nerves’
The artist talks about his concern with expressing human vulnerability and encouraging empathy and connection
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Tadao Ando – Emaki Drawings
At this French sculpture park, whose landscape is dotted with his structures, the Japanese architect has designed, in his inimitable style, a new pavilion to exhibit drawings of 10 or so of his schemes
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José Parlá: ‘It challenges me to work against the grain of the status quo’
For his most ambitious project to date, commissioned by the Landmarks public art programme at the University of Texas at Austin, Parlá transforms a 4,000-sq-foot site into a panoramic landscape evocative of Austin’s natural and urban environment
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Virginia Woolf: An Exhibition Inspired By Her Writings
The great modernist writer serves as a presiding spirit in an inclusive, multifarious group show, displayed in the town that triggered her childhood imagination
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Sofia Stevi: Turning forty winks into a decade
Greek artist Sofia Stevi’s paintings ooze confidence, sensuality and an improvisational spontaneity. Yet her flair and inventiveness with a paintbrush are something of a recent discovery – to Stevi as well as to the rest of us
