Interviews
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Eileen Hogan: ‘I find out what really matters to me through working from memory’
The artist talks about being taught to draw in two very different ways by Euan Uglow and Frank Auerbach, her fascination with Little Sparta, Ian Hamilton Finlay’s Scottish garden, and her desire to invest visual experience with meaning
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Jordan Casteel: ‘My perspective is one full of empathy and love’
In her second solo exhibition, the American painter offers a new series of portraits that seeks to reinterpret visions of what it means to be a black man in the US today. Here, she talks about her work
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Tamar Ettun: ‘I am using the structure of a religious practice as a fold for my art-making’
The young Israeli-American sculptor talks about her Orthodox background, her beginnings in art, integration of sculpture and performance, and how art relates to her personal history
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Petra Cortright: ‘I wanted to raise questions about the way we view women in a digital landscape’
The artist talks about moving from working on computers to painting, linking the two worlds to produce something physical translated from the digital, the importance of layering, surface, and light and making work out of computer errors or spam
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Judy Chicago: ‘I’ll leave it to others to change the world’
The artist talks about her career trajectory, the continuing need for feminist art, and the way in which she hopes to spend her remaining years
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Jonas Mekas: ‘I have a need to film small, almost invisible daily moments’
The legendary independent film-maker talks about avant garde, utopia, his latest projects, the importance of history and improvisation, and why he rarely films anything outside his close circle of friends
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Wilmer Wilson IV: ‘Moving between mediums is my way of remaining nimble’
The artist explains some of his performances, his interest in intervening in monuments in public spaces, why he uses detritus from the streets, and how he uses his body to push back against social and cultural control
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Jennifer Campbell and Chloë Manasseh: ‘We’re both interested in the temporal state of the landscape’
The artists talk about how they explore the conflicting psychological and physical states of being ‘grounded’, Manasseh through the diverse landscapes of the desert, and Campbell through the metropolis
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Hank Willis Thomas: ‘Ideas crop up out of thin air, like bubbles, and I’m just trying to trap them’
The artist talks about grabbing people’s attention to make them think about things they normally wouldn’t think about, recapturing or re-experiencing historical moments, and how he still has the mind of a photographer, even if that’s not where he always…
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Anna Dumitriu: ‘Bacteria are living organisms that you can work with – almost in a painterly kind of way’
Not many artists would want to work with bacteria, smelly faecal transplants or anthrax, but Dumitriu is at the crossover between science and art, as happy in a microbiology lab as she is in a studio. Here, she talks about…
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‘Oswaldo Vigas said he found the root of his work in ancient culture’
At an exhibition of Oswaldo Vigas’s work in Bogotá, his son Lorenzo talked about his father’s love of people, how mythology and witchcraft shaped his output, and his friendship with Picasso
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Larry Bell: ‘You have to trust what you’re doing, to trust the work’
The artist discusses his latest solo exhibition, at the White Cube gallery, the spontaneity that occurs during the making process, why he chose to stop painting, and going to tea with Marcel Duchamp
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HeHe: ‘Pylons are quite beautiful structures in themselves. They’re like little angels’
Helen Evans, half of the artistic duo known as HeHe, speaks about their current work for the Bruges Triennial, and how it fits with their themes of the environment and urban space
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Charles Gaines: ‘I am dealing in the area of how meaning is formed’
US conceptual artist and educator Charles Gaines talks about why he believes art should be interested in knowledge ahead of pleasure, being influenced by Charlie Parker and John Coltrane, and why he contests his students rather than nurturing them
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Hannah Collins: ‘Most of my work is a line between culture and the world’
The British artist known for her large, unframed photographs talks about her latest exhibition at the Camden Arts Centre in London, photographing a hut where Nelson Mandela lived, investigating civil rights in the American south and spending time with tribal…
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Alinka Echeverria: ‘As soon as you lift up the camera, you make the other person vulnerable’
The photographer talks about her work looking at political and religious beliefs, including a visit to South Sudan following its independence and meeting Nelson Mandela’s prison warder from Robben Island
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Nathan Cash Davidson: ‘I’m two different artists in the same person’
The artist discusses his current exhibition at the Hannah Barry Gallery, his interest both in recreating the past and in sci-fi, using collage to help create his compositions, and what it is to be both a painter and a rapper
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Jeanne Masoero: ‘My work is about trying to find structures, a kind of contained chaos’
The artist explains how her interest in the Mayan civilisation led her to use layers in her work. Typically, she says, she spends three months on one piece, gradually building up the layers in what she calls her ‘landscapes of…
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Susan Cianciolo: ‘Everything I make is so sacred and it’s all about the process of making’
The artist talks about the Fluxus boxes in her latest exhibition, opening a textile store in Mississippi, and her early years in fashion design
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Mark Fairnington: ‘The work I do with scientists echoes their speculation and observation rather than any ensuing claim to truth’
The artist talks about his work researching natural history collections, how he crosses the divide between art and science, and his deadpan English brand of surrealism
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Sheikha Lateefa bint Maktoum: ‘I am a veiled woman, so it’s a natural process to have veiled women in my work’
The founder of Tashkeel, Dubai’s first public studio space for artists, talks about her hopes for the centre, being a role model for young women in Dubai, and how being a mother has changed her pace of work
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Sophia Narrett: ‘I see the sewing process as akin to drawing’
The artist talks about the process of making her embroideries, why she uses pop culture for source material and why narrative is so important to her
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Eileen Cooper: ‘Artists are real sponges. We take things and absorb them and eventually use them in our work’
The artist talks about having a retrospective at the Royal Academy at the same time as showing in its Summer Exhibition, critics’ sometimes overzealous interpretation of her works and her love of materials and process
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Chloe Dewe Mathews: ‘I wanted to bring the viewer in, so they become part of the congregation’
Chloe Dewe Mathews’s Tate commission, Congregation, looks at south London’s African churches, capturing the community in the physical and emotional act of worship. She talks about what motivated her to video the congregations and why the new Bosse & Baum…
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