Interviews
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Sean Scully: ‘The stripe can do anything in any direction, and since it is so common, it corresponds to everything around us’
The abstract artist talks about why he changed his style so radically in the 1980s, the influence of Ireland, the UK and the US on his work, and why he is so popular in China
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Clare Jarrett: ‘It’s almost as though the work is already there somewhere and just wants to come out’
The Norwich-based artist talks about her recent residency at the Barbershop in Norwich, and her practice
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History Machines by Donovan & Siegel
Toronto-based artist couple Matt Donavan and Hallie Siegel explore the history of changes in communication technology in their multilayered artworks derived from research and conversation.
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Jeffrey Gibson: ‘I was so angry I washed my canvases in the laundromat’
The artist talks about being any angry young artist, his earlier determination not to be viewed as an American Indian artist, and the practice he has evolved over the years, which combines traditional Native American art with contemporary styles
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Mårten Lange: ‘I wanted to make a story about something beyond the reach of the camera’
The photographer talks about his lifelong fascination with prehistory and his latest photobook, Chicxulub, and the difficulties of capturing lost worlds
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Li Huasheng: ‘A line is nothing. When I paint a vase, its outline does not exist, it is imagined’
The Chinese artist is admired for his abstract ink paintings. Here, he explains how a visit to the US changed his art and his life, and why he has ‘stopped communicating with most people’
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Judith Wechsler: ‘Film allows, even invites, inclusivity of media. It’s one of the reasons I love making films’
The American film-maker and art historian discusses her remarkable body of documentaries on art, including her latest project, a suggestively melancholy portrait of Aby Warburg
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Regine Bartsch: ‘I’m drawn to these places where many people have lived before’
In her studio in southern Ireland, the German-born artist spoke about her recent exhibition and residency at David Parr House in Cambridge, Buddhism and the childhood experiences in Finland and Syria that continue to influence her practice
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Katie Schwab: ‘I like the idea that works can begin to generate their own history once they enter people’s homes’
Keen to learn traditional, craft-based skills, the artist explains why she is drawn to processes where she has a direct hand in production, staying in contact with the things she is making and the people she is working with
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Raqib Shaw: ‘I really don’t give a fuck about the so-called contemporary art world’
In his converted home and studio in south London, surrounded by dogs, myriad staff, an exquisitely kept bonsai collection and apparently endless reserves of champagne, the artist discusses childhood, gardening and his route to becoming a painter
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Dana Schutz: ‘I think of the viewer as the painter’
The artist talks about deciding to become a painter when she was 14, how Alice Neel and the Velvet Underground made her want to move to New York, why she isn’t on Facebook or Instagram, and why it’s bad to…
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Michael Joo: ‘I was taken by the fact that there was a space that was inaccessible but real’
The New York-based conceptual artist talks about growing up among scientists, what drew him to working with silver nitrate, the endangered red crane in the demilitarised zone between North and South Korea
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Kate Whiteford: ‘By confronting simple questions, bigger ones emerge. That is the essence of my work’
The artist talks about her new work, now on show at the Mercer Art Gallery in Harrogate, looking at how Capability Brown transformed the English landscape through the manipulation of scale and perspective
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Alice Channer: ‘The area in between the subject and the object is the area I want to locate in my work’
The artist, who used everything from cigarette ash to microbeads to create her work, talks about cyborgs, beehives, and the problem with solid sculpture
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Winifred Knights (1899-1947)
Knights was a prodigious talent, yet she has been virtually ignored for the past half a century. Now, a retrospective of her paintings at the Dulwich Picture Gallery could change that. Director Ian Dejardin tells Emily Spicer why Knights is…
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Lamia Joreige: ‘Anything you film in a certain reality at a certain moment is a diagnosis of a present’
The artist, one of six finalists included in the Artes Mundi 7 exhibition, talks about her project Objects of War, a collective history of the Lebanese civil war, and her newer “poetic essays” exploring neighbourhoods in Beirut through film, photography,…
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This is a Voice
This intriguing exhibition attempts to capture the elusive nature of the human voice, with live performances by sound artists, demonstrations, paintings and medical illustrations. Curator Bárbara Rodríguez Muñoz tells Studio International about the show
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Tim Slade: ‘The whole point about erasure is to allow you to pretend that nothing has happened’
The Destruction of Memory charts the global loss of historic artefacts through war and terrorism. It is a film that Slade hopes will change the way governments and policy-makers view such cultural vandalism
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Mariko Mori: ‘The ring is a symbol of oneness, completeness and eternity’
The artist talks about her mission to place site-specific artworks honouring nature on the six habitable continents, and her involvement with the cultural programme of the Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games
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Marie Yates: ‘In my view, everything is textual, and a text is visual’
A woman artist working conceptually with the landscape since the 1970s, Yates’s work has often been misinterpreted. A new exhibition at Richard Saltoun will hopefully reengage viewers in the relevant discourse
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Philip Hunter: ‘I’ve developed an approach to painting that emulates the act of walking through a terrain and exploring it firsthand’
The Australian artists talks about the influence of Sidney Nolan, his most recent body of works, Geophonics, his interest in landscape and in events that happen below the Earth’s crust
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Georgiana Houghton: Spirit Drawings
She was an abstract painter out of time, a visionary and a maverick, but Georgiana Houghton was also a medium, whose inspiration came from an unexpected source.
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Yun-Fei Ji: ‘I’m pessimistic about China’
He may use scrolls and work in ink in the millennial-old tradition of Chinese landscape painting, but his themes are contemporary – the environmental destruction caused by vast infrastructure projects in his native country and the forced relocation of its…
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Manolo Valdés: ‘I only like apples if they look like Cezanne’s apples!’
Like a magpie, taking fragments from works of art that he loves and reinterpreting them in new paintings on burlap or as sculptures, Valdés is always on the look out for inspiration. He explains how his entire world is seen…
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