Interviews
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Gavin Jantjes – interview: ‘I want to be free from expectation’
The South African painter, printmaker and former curator talks about the pitfalls of expectation, diversifying Britain’s art scene and creating a truly visual art
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Dominique White – interview: ‘I do everything the wrong way’
Ahead of her Whitechapel Gallery commission, the winner of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women talks about manufacturing, mythology and submerging work underwater
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Emma Stibbon – interview: ‘We need the science, the data, but art can reach us in a more emotional way’
Tackling issues of climate change and coastal erosion in both the local area and as far afield as the two Poles, Emma Stibbon’s drawings and installations serve as monuments to what may all-too-soon be gone
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Wayne Eager – interview: ‘In Central Australia, I was mesmerised by the bright light and colour in the wide, open landscape’
A three-month stay in Central Australia with his partner, the artist Marina Strocchi, turned into a 30-year sojourn. Eager talks about working with Indigenous people to further their art and witnessing a transformation in the art market’s view of Aboriginal…
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Alex Ely – interview: ‘Ultimately the success of any building is how well it’s used and how well it’s stewarded’
What is the secret to making buildings that other architects admire and envy, but which are dedicated to the greater good? Mae Architects founder Alex Ely shares insights on the firm’s Stirling Prize-winning approach
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Leo Robinson – interview: ‘Human beings need meaningful symbols and narratives in order to understand themselves and their shared connections’
Robinson, whose exhibition Dream-Bridge-Omniglyph is now at the London Mithraeum, considers his reimagining of arcane lost worlds, Jungian dream theory and the potential curse incited by layers of ancient mythologies being incorporated into a contemporary temple of finance
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Outi Pieski – interview: ‘Contemporary art museums in general are spaces for dreaming and experimenting’
Small carved figures, knotted fringes and historic hats represent Pieski’s Sámi heritage as do her luminous painted landscapes and they work powerfully in her show at Tate St Ives to highlight systemic injustices to land and people
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Ronald Davis – interview: ‘Two artists who use perspective in their work are Duchamp and Davis. I’m kind of proud of that’
Davis talks about his art and how he started out in the 1960s, his friendship with Judy Chicago, playing chess with David Hockney and having a Scotch with Clement Greenberg
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Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran – interview: ‘Part of creating the work is to explore those lines between ambiguity and familiarity’
A melange of multilimbed, fertility, guardian, protector and warrior figures animate Glasgow’s Tramway in an ambitious installation for the Sri Lankan-born, Australian artist in his first UK solo show
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Andrew Cranston – interview: ‘Trust in things around you being the stuff of art’
As his first public exhibition opens in Wakefield, the brilliant Scottish painter talks about Franz Kafka, DH Lawrence, fried eggs and punctums
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James Lingwood and Michael Morris, former Artangel directors – interview: ‘The art world audience was for us the least interesting audience’
Their legacy includes Rachel Whiteread’s cast of a terraced house, Roger Hiorns transformation of a council flat into a blue crystal cave and Michael Landy’s destruction of all his possessions in a department store window. They discuss how the art…
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Jake Grewal – interview: ‘I don’t know where I make work from other than my experience and emotional response’
Grewal, whose compelling first solo institutional exhibition is now showing at Pallant House Gallery, discusses his painterly exploration of self through an amalgamation of automatic writing, direct, in-the-moment observation and a close attunement to his most personal experiences
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Bruce Munro – interview: ‘I was constantly telling people about this large-scale light project that I had to do at Uluru at all costs. I was obsessed’
Munro dreamed of installing Field of Light in the Australian desert. He explains how the monumental installation, involving 52,000 solar-powered lights, became a labour of love that took 24 years to come to fruition, saw him remortgage his house and…
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Ibrahim Mahama – interview: ‘It’s not so much about what you produce, but about the relationships that are created in the process’
He is showing at the Bienal de São Paulo and the Chicago Architecture Biennial and is artistic director of this year’s Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts, but his real passion, he says, is the creative and cultural infrastructure he is…
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Sara Reisman – interview: ‘This was an opportunity to engage with contemporary issues that interest our members and to work with artists and architects from the larger art community’
Sara Reisman, chief curator at the National Academy of Design, talks about the institution’s 200-year history and its aims for the future, and picks out some favourites from its current show, Drawing as Practice
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Nimrod Vardi and Claudel Goy – interview: ‘We want to explore what it means to rethink the history of digital arts in the UK and worldwide’
The co-directors of arebyte, a charitable organisation specialising in digital art, talk about being based in London’s new cultural hub, nurturing young and upcoming artists, and the current show by Zach Blas
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Cat Dunn – interview: ‘I wanted artists who understood the traumas associated with political aspects of dual identity, but could still express aspects of joy’
The curator of Crafted Selves: The Unfinished Conversation, at St Andrews Museum in Scotland, talks about how she chose the 13 artists in the show, all of whom explore dual identity in their work, whether that be to do with…
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El Anatsui – interview: ‘My inspiration comes from things people have used – there are so many endless delights’
As his huge installation begins at Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall this month, the artist talks about African identity, authenticity and being inspired by your own environment
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Kim Conaty – interview: ‘Ruth Asawa pursued drawing throughout her life, the sculpture coming from it, wire the equivalent of line’
Conaty, the Whitney Museum’s curator of prints and drawings, explains what led her to organise a show of Asawa’s drawings rather than the wire sculptures for which she is famed
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Bartosz Beda: interview: ‘In chaos, there is always some kind of order’
Beda, whose solo show Echoes of Seasons is at the Art Gallery of Collin College in Plano, Texas, talks about his process, the thoughts behind his current works – and how he is influenced by his eastern European background
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Avery Singer – interview: ‘Art got me through some really dark places and still does’
Singer was 14 on 9/11 and what she witnessed took its toll on her mental health. Her experience of that day has informed Free Fall, her ambitious solo exhibition at Hauser & Wirth London, which considers the power of memory…
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Ave Libertatemaveamor – interview: ‘Contemplating the actions of the Russians helps me to be more sensitive to infernal images’
The Ukrainian artist who goes by the name of Ave Libertatemaveamor talks about life in her country since the Russian invasion, the mural she worked on with George Gittoes for the rebuilt House of Culture in Irpin, and why drawing…
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Catherine Opie – interview: ‘I am in love with the medium of photography and the aesthetic pursuits of what I can do within it’
The photographer, known for her portraits of west-coast queer culture in the 1990s, today turns her camera to making portraits of architecture and cities, including the Vatican
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Kaye Donachie – interview: ‘My portraits are spectres, images conjured through art and writing’
Donachie, whose first UK solo institutional exhibition is now at Pallant House Gallery, reflects on her cast of reimagined muses, the influence of poetry and cinema on her imagery and the ongoing conversation between her paintings
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