Interviews

  • Liz Larner – interview

    On the event of her first UK institutional show at Camden Art Centre, the American sculptor discusses plastics, ceramics and the legend of Lilith

  • Virginia Verran – interview

    Verran paints large atmospheric spaces filled with small, often cryptic, graphic details. She explains why she doesn’t see herself as an abstract artist, but desires to keep the viewer on their toes – or even on ‘metaphorical barbed wire’

  • Francisca Aninat – interview

    The Chilean artist talks about listening, stitching and her latest show, which combines photographs and works with thread

  • Pedro Cabrita Reis – interview

    The internationally acclaimed artist talks about his current show in Venice, XIV Steps, a cycle of 14 paintings inspired by the Stations of the Cross and why, despite not being religious, he was moved to paint them

  • 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

  • Victoria Pomery, chief executive, The Box, Plymouth – interview

    Plymouth’s The Box has been named 2026 Museum of the Year by the Art Fund. Pomery talks about what it means to win the UK’s most prestigious museum prize

  • Isabel Nolan – interview

    The artist talks about representing Ireland at this year’s Venice Biennale, her first major UK survey show in London, and being inspired by medieval printers, Greek philosophers, TV psychopaths and the bony knees and feet of ancient poets and priests

  • Emily Kraus – interview

    Kraus talks about the purpose-built painting scaffold she uses and the challenges of working within it, the difference between working at large and small scale and the mistake of assuming analogue and digital are binary

  • Ásta Fanney Sigurðardóttir – interview

    The artist representing Iceland at this year’s Venice Biennale with her enchanting Pocket Universe talks about her practice – what she calls a form of ‘spiritual fluxus’ in which different worlds and disciplines intermingle – and explains why she is…

  • Genti Korini – interview

    The artist talks about A Place in the Sun, his twisty, challenging video installation at the Albanian Pavilion and why he based it on a re-enactment of an absurdist theatre from a century ago, using an obscure language that no…

  • Delcy Morelos – interview

    The Columbian artist on how she made her enormous earthen outdoor sculpture now on show at the Barbican and why she believes foxes have as much right to enjoy it as humans

  • Morgan Quaintance – interview

    The artist and writer, winner of the 2025 Film London Jarman Award among other accolades, talks about his varied career including as a musician and cultural producer and how, eight years ago, he came to start making moving images

  • Catalyst: Art as Activism

    Encompassing four solo shows this exhibition challenges our views on climate change, disability, identity and migration. Studio International spoke to artists Eilidh Appletree, Taraneh Dana, Kasia Oleskiewicz and Molly Wickett at Summerhall Arts in Edinburgh the day before the show…

  • Laura Lima – interview

    Lima’s installation The Drawing Drawing at the ICA is delightfully disorienting, with the model and the artists – the audience – orbiting one another on mechanised platforms. The artist talks about why she sees her work as conceptual art rather…

  • Mai Nguyễn-Long – interview

    The artist explains feeling that she belonged neither to the Vietnamese community of her heritage or the Australian one of her birth led her to translate centuries-old Vietnamese wood carvings into her own artworks in clay and how through her…

  • Merlin Daleman – interview

    The photographer talks about how his new photo book, Mutiny, captures the backstory of the Brexit vote and how he combines the documentary and the artistic tradition, while never losing sight of the humanity and humour of its subjects

  • Cecilia Vicuña – interview

    Now in her 70s, and with a show at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, Cecilia Vicuña’s activist light is undimmed: she continues to celebrate the fragility and connectivity of plants, animals and people. She shares the magic…

  • Artes Mundi 11 Prize and Exhibition

    Against a background of divisive global politics and hysteria around migration, the six artists shortlisted for the 2025 Artes Mundi prize focus on the losses endured by displaced peoples, and the disempowerment arising from imposed colonial narratives. We review this…

  • Rhiannon Hiles, chief executive, Beamish Museum – interview

    Winner of the world’s largest museum prize, the £120,000 Art Fund Museum of the Year, Beamish, an open-air social history museum in north-east England, was described as ‘a joyous, immersive and unique place’. Rhiannon Hiles tells us all about it

  • Holly Stevenson – interview

    Following in the female surrealist tradition, Holly Stevenson makes cathectic objects from clay, which distort and intrigue

  • Andrew Kinghorn interview

    Sculptor Andrew Kinghorn talks about architecture, colonialism, how his extensive travels through Asia and living in Australia changed his work – and how the love of his life became his muse

  • Amalia Pica interview

    The Argentinian-born artist explains how chairs, daisy chains and bunting feed into her exploration of early years education, history, rituals, community and conflict resolution

  • Renee So interview

    As her new show, Commodities – Sculpture and Ceramics, opens at Compton Verney, Renee So takes us on a guided tour, and explains how the museum’s collection of Chinese artefacts led her to think more about exploitation and colonisation, the…

  • John Walker – interview: ‘I wept uncontrollably in front of Goya’s Black paintings’

    Following the publication earlier this year of a Thames & Hudson monograph on his art, John Walker talks about how the landscape of Maine suits his work, his admiration for Brâncuși and why, if the world were on fire, he…