Interviews
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Maurice Burns – interview: ‘I think musically when I compose my painting and in the choice of colours I use’
The artist talks about his current exhibition at Gerald Peters, his first show in New York, his complex, collage-like paintings, his friendship with RB Kitaj and listening to Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane while he paints
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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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An-My Lê – interview: ‘All the striations of important events are retained within the landscape, whether you see it or not’
Photographer An-My Lê talks about her project Silent General and the personal and political tensions that run though her work
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Tony Lewis – interview: ‘I’ve got to wear a Tyvek suit, a ventilation mask, two pairs of gloves and two pairs of shoes whenever I go to the studio’
The artist explains the lengths he must go to in order to create his signature graphite ‘floor drawings’ and talks about his latest exhibition, at Massimo de Carlo, Milan, based on the legendary 1965 Cambridge debate about race between James…
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John Cornish – interview: ‘It would be unfair just to look back on my father’s career as that of a good pictorial social historian – his artwork has aesthetic quality; it is real and immersive’
The son of the artist Norman Cornish, whose work is synonymous with mining life in the County Durham town of Spennymoor, looks back at his father’s life and artistic legacy
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Ann Dumas – interview: ‘Every exhibition is fraught with problems and difficulties – but it’s never dull’
One of the UK’s leading curators, Dumas talks about women in the art world, the trials and triumphs of curatorial life, the differences between working in the US and the UK, and Van Gogh, Cezanne, Degas, and Picasso – the…
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Alison Carlier – interview: ‘Drawn marks can describe and convey human experience beyond words’
The artist, the first to win the Jerwood Drawing Prize for an audio piece, talks about the overlap between drawing and words, and explains what informs her practice
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Pio Abad – interview: ‘The backbone of my practice is family: personal and political narratives entwined’
The London-based Filipino artist talks about The Collection of Jane Ryan & William Saunders, 3D replicas of some of the $21m haul of jewels amassed by Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos, and why the underlying narrative throughout this project is the…
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Alfredo Jaar – interview: ‘You can talk about violence without humiliating the victim’
As his seminal Rwanda Project is revived at London’s Goodman Gallery, the Chilean artist and architect speaks on inculcating empathy, the difficulty of representing real-world tragedy and the malaise of the contemporary media
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Robert Holyhead – interview: ‘I see each painting as a single, emerged gesture’
The artist discusses his new work, No Movement, No Colour, at Galerie Max Hetzler, London, and why, despite months of meticulous preparation, each oil painting must be finished in a single day
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Meryl McMaster – interview: ‘I explore complex questions around one’s sense of self and belonging to two heritages’
McMaster, who often transforms herself into hybrid animal-human creatures for her photographs, discusses her show, As Immense as the Sky, at the Ikon Gallery, and how her mixed European and Plains Cree ancestry feeds into her work
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Sara MacKillop – interview: ‘I take things that I’ve seen in the world and put them together in different ways’
The artist talks about her latest show, Returns and Renewals, now at Peer Gallery in east London, making art inspired by everyday life, and her involvement with artists’ books and self-publishing
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Berenice Carrington: ‘I think of the naturalistic style of my drawing as empathetic realism’
The artist, who describes her work as ethnographic drawing, explains how her practice began when she worked with Aboriginal people in Australia and draws similarities between that continent and Shetland, where she now lives
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Larissa Sansour – interview: ‘That is often what identity and trauma does to you: you become stuck in an idea that you can’t get out of without losing yourself’
The Palestinian artist unravels some of the layers of In Vitro, her science-fiction film now showing in the Danish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, and relates it to our present – unsettling – reality
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Edmund de Waal – interview: ‘The great thing about a library is that, as soon as you have made it, people start to use it’
The British artist and author talks about his many exhibitions this year, including his work for the Venice Biennale 2019 in which he turned the idea of the ghetto into a place of hope and possibility
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Anthony Eyton – interview: ‘I’m still dealing with my mother’s early death. That’s what the paintings are about perhaps’
Now 96, remarkably the Royal Academician’s latest show is full of recent paintings, which Frank Auerbach has told him are his most original yet. He talks about his artistic practice, the influence of his mother’s work and how hard he…
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Kudzanai-Violet Hwami – interview: ‘How I identify isn’t what pushes me to create. I create because I cannot do anything else’
The Zimbabwe-born, London-based artist talks about her new work for her solo show at Gasworks in London and why her paintings for this year’s Venice Biennale almost reduced her to tears
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Michael Simpson – interview: ‘Every single painting involves an element of fear’
The artist discusses how going to a football match at the age of seven inspired him to start painting, his dislike of organised religion, his rigorous approach to his art and his current new work at Blain Southern
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Michael Sherrill – interview: ‘I’d call myself a student of art’
Sherrill talks about his current retrospective at the Smithsonian’s Renwick Gallery, why he calls himself a “material-based artist”, being influenced by Matisse – and the joy of home-grown tomatoes
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Enoc Perez – interview: ‘I’m trying to create my own little encyclopaedia of cool’
The New York-based painter discusses his new show, The Cinematic Self, at Ben Brown Fine Arts, his painterly process, the interiors that excite him, and his approach to turning 50
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Holly Hendry – interview: ‘I dabble between formalism and representation’
Just three years after leaving art school, Hendry has already had several high-profile shows. She talks about her love of problem-solving and manipulating materials and discusses her new exhibition at Yorkshire Sculpture Park
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Lucy Joyce – interview: ‘I’m not interested in the idea of spectacle; I’m interested in people catching sight of something subtly and what that then does for them’
With her six-month inaugural exhibition and a live Aktion ahead of the official opening, Joyce hopes to surprise visitors and make them think – as well as to leave behind something of her collaborative research to guard the new Brandenburgian…
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Mikhail Karikis – interview: ‘I have never cried during filming until this project’
Karikis has filmed children, teenagers, elderly female pearl divers and others on the margins on society. He talks about his aims and his latest project, at De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill, which focuses on carers
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Trevor Paglen — interview: ‘Everything is surveillance software at this point’
As he opens a new project at the Barbican Centre, the artist and critical geographer explains online image sets, surveillance culture and the return of human classification
