Interviews

  • Xavier Mascaró interview: ‘I’m a sculptor, because I want to leave something behind, some trace of what I have been’

    Spanish sculptor Xavier Mascaró talks about his obsession with presence and absence in his work, how ancient cultures inspire him, and the laborious process involved in casting his monumental pieces by hand

  • Agathe Sorel interview: ‘I never have an idea in advance, even now. Experimentation spreads through all my work’

    Agathe Sorel talks about her battle to get printmaking recognised in art colleges, her unconventional use of the engraved line, the influence of maths and science on her work – and being kicked out of photo shops

  • Christopher Le Brun interview: ‘From the drama of the image in my earlier work, I’ve switched to this other drama where the image is erased or obscured’

    Royal Academy president Christopher Le Brun has produced 33 new canvases for his solo show at Friedman Benda, his first in the US in 10 years. He talks about his move from mythological and symbolic imagery to abstraction, the source…

  • Sally Smart: interview

    Sally Smart, known for her large-scale installations, talks about her recent project, The Pedagogical Puppet (2012), made during a residency at the University of Connecticut. Her Bauhaus-inspired work represents an independent artistic spirit in Australia, where she lives and works

  • Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: interview

    Famous for his interactive installations for public spaces, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer talks about his unusual path from physical chemistry graduate to artist, and the growing relationship between technology and artistic practice

  • Will Maclean and Marian Leven: interview

    ‘An Suileachan was intended to be something that looked to the future and would lead to a feeling of community ownership’

  • Dashiell Manley interview: ‘I approach most projects as if making a film’

    Los Angeles-based artist Dashiell Manley talks about The Great Train Robbery, explains why he sees himself mainly as a film-maker, and reveals how he forms his ideas and the processes involved in his complex, layered and thoughtful works

  • Stephen Farthing: interview

    Stephen Farthing, Rootstein Hopkins Chair of Drawing, talks to Janet McKenzie about his obsession with finding an adequate definition of drawing – and how digital imaging is changing the way it is taught today

  • Mark Soo interview: ‘The object of observation changes by being observed’

    Multimedia artist Mark Soo tells A Will Brown about his interest in the interconnection of elements, how a work of art changes when a passerby looks at it, and how Detroit techno music led him to 19th-century paddlewheel steamships

  • Lisa Corinne Davis: interview

    Lisa Corinne Davis talks to Lilly Wei about her multilayered, map-like paintings, the complex relationship between race, culture and history, and her hope that her work will challenge preconceived notions of identity

  • Calum Colvin: interview

    Calum Colvin talks to Christiana Spens about the influences behind his art and photography, his feelings about contemporary Scottish society, and how, if he had the budget, he would like to make a film.

  • Wendy White: interview

    Wendy White: Madrid Me Mata Arts + Leisure Gallery, New York City 16 July – 1 September 2014

  • Bartosz Beda: interview

    Since graduating from the Manchester School of Art, he has received numerous nominations for art prizes, winning the National Open Art Competition for the North of England in 2012. Beda was born in Poland, but now lives and works in…

  • Gustav Metzger: interview

    “When I was young I wanted art that would lift off, that would levitate, gyrate, bring together different – perhaps contradictory  – aspects of my being. The search for – the need to encapsulate varying kinds of contradictory elements, the…

  • Fiona Banner: interview

    Mistah Kurtz – He Not Dead Fiona Banner in collaboration with Paolo Pellegrin in association with the Archive of Modern Conflict Peer, London 5 June – 26 July 2014

  • Lucía Pizzani: interview

    The Worshipper of the Image Beers Contemporary, London 6 June – 26 July 2014

  • Charlotte Hodes: interview

    In The Grammar of Ornament: New Paper Cuts and Ceramics, artist Charlotte Hodes takes as her cue the seminal 19th-century publication The Grammar of Ornament (1856), by the architect and designer Owen Jones,1 to investigate the relationship between the female…

  • Shaun McDowell: interview

    Save Yourself! Hannah Barry Gallery, London 26 June – 27 July 2014

  • Joe Winkelman: interview

    After studying English literature at university in the US, he spent two years teaching in Tanzania with the civilian Peace Corps, part of the then newly launched initiative by President Kennedy to encourage graduates to volunteer to serve in developing…

  • Ralph Rugoff: interview

    The Human Factor: The Figure in Contemporary Sculpture Hayward Gallery, London 17 June – 7 September 2014

  • Pierre-Nicolas Bounakoff, Jean-Marie Gallais, Ida Tursic and Wilfried Mille: interview

    Halftone: Through the Grid Galerie Max Hetzler, Bleibtreustrasse 45, Berlin-Charlottenburg 14 June – 26 July 2014

  • Isabel Nolan: interview

    Isabel Nolan: The Weakened Eye of Day Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin 7 June – 21 September 2014

  • Doug Cocker: interview

    From my own Australian perspective, this landscape represents centuries of human presence: farming, building and crafting. Here, the cycles of nature are absorbed into quotidian life; in the summer, there are just two to three hours of dark, prompting outdoor…

  • Joyce Cairns: interview

    A visit to France in 1984, where she observed the ceremonies to mark the liberation of the country in 1944, prompted Cairns to make paintings that would enable her to explore her father’s war experience. There followed works in 1986…