Interviews
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Samuel Gallacher – interview: ‘We have put the community at the front and centre of what we’ve done at the museum’
Glasgow’s Burrell Collection has been named 2023 museum of the year, picking up the £120,000 award that goes with it. The Keeper of the collection talks about what it means to win the world’s largest museum prize and his plans…
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Gabriel Chaile and Laura Ojeda Bär – interview: ‘We’re really into the power of art to transform and transmute places and objects and people’
Gabriel Chaile’s first institutional solo show in the UK sees him covering an old chapel in adobe mud and inviting his friend, Laura Ojeda-Bar, to contribute her own characterful paintings, creating a multisensory environment of intimacy and welcome
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Eileen Cooper – interview: ‘I’d always avoided looking back … but it’s been fascinating’
As an exhibition of her previously unseen early works on paper opens at Huxley-Parlour in London, Cooper talks about the importance of drawing, the women’s movement, and the relevance of these particular intimate images to the development of her style…
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Beatriz Milhazes – interview: ‘My big ambition is always to try to do something new with abstraction’
On the occasion of a major survey of her work at Margate’s Turner Contemporary, the Brazilian artist discusses being political, fusing elements of European modernism with Brazilian culture and the increasing importance to her of the natural world
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George Gittoes – interview: ‘The spirit of art cannot be suppressed by the barbarity of war’
The Australian artist has been visiting war zones for 50 years and he and his wife travelled to Kyiv the week after Russia’s invasion. He explains his need to go there to work with Ukrainian artists, paint murals on destroyed…
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Tom Wood – interview: ‘I started doing portraits of these kids hanging around on drugs, or whatever, and some of their parents. It was really tough’
For 50 years, Wood has been out on the streets taking intimate, informal, often quirky, photographs of people. As his first major retrospective takes place at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, he talks about his career and how he…
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Amy Sillman – interview: ‘We’re in this sticky place between despair and vitality all the time’
On the occasion of her latest exhibition at Thomas Dane’s Naples gallery, the ever-probing Sillman considers her enduring fascination with process, impatience with beauty, and why humour is the key to life
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Maki Na Kamura – interview: ‘People in the presence of my work can project their memories of all kinds of genres of bygone paintings’
The Berlin-based Japanese painter touches on her interest in patterns of structures and texture, a knowing circumvention of figuration and the magic of painting
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Christina Seilern – interview: ‘Doing a project is like writing a book … sometimes you have to trust the story and not the author’
Having set up Studio Seilern Architects in 2006, Christina Seilern has been quietly building a solid body of elegant, spatially ambitious buildings and is now garnering the industry accolades she deserves. She talks about storytelling, sexism, slow regeneration and prioritising…
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Tiffanie Delune – interview: ‘I want people to feel like they’re walking into a complete universe’
The artist talks about her time on a residency in Ghana, culminating in her current solo show there, and how this, along with everything from existential fears to mundane choices of pre-bedtime TV programmes, has fed into her increasingly abstract…
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Mike Parr – interview: ‘I was a performance artist with one arm. The problem of visibility, the visual, was loaded completely differently’
One of Australia’s most influential artists, Parr talks about his extreme performance art, how the death of his brother has affected his work, and why Joseph Beuys’s drawings have been a constant touchstone
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Duke Riley – interview: ‘As an artist, you’re trying to push boundaries and push further into the unknown’
Riley likes his art to provoke, even if it gets him arrested. He talks about training pigeons to smuggle cigars from Cuba, whether or not he was involved in putting bedbugs in a Trump hotel, and his exhibition at Brooklyn…
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Adelaide Cioni – interview: ‘My work is about the origins of drawing and that visual or aesthetic relation we have to objects’
The artist talks about her interest in patterns, and how these relate to something deep inside us, a universal alphabet, which evades meaning
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Péju Alatise – interview: ‘My relationship with Nigeria is like a battered wife … Glasgow is a new relationship’
Having recently moved to the UK from Nigeria, Péju Alatise talks about growing up in Lagos, her campaigning art and its shifting style, and plans for her new Glasgow studio
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Marcelle Hanselaar – interview: ‘To do nothing, to not at least take the responsibility of bearing witness, to show no empathy, would be to lose part of our humanity’
The artist, 20 of whose works are now on show at the Fitzwilliam Museum, talks about the power struggles in her work and how being one step removed enables creatives to produce an empathetic, imaginative and impactful response to global…
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Ingela Ihrman – interview: ‘I need to find my own reasons to do things, to find my bruises and push them’
The Swedish artist’s subject matter includes invasive weeds, intestinal flora and obese chicks that live in dark caves. She tells us about her works now on show at Gasworks London and the Eden Project
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Xiyao Wang: A Carnival in the Forest
This colourful lyrical abstraction sweeps the viewer up in its kaleidoscopic eddies and perpetual vicissitude
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Andrew Black – interview: ‘The film-making process for me is a research process first … the film is what it forms into when it’s ready’
The artist discusses his film documenting the social and economic history of the Washburn Valley in the Yorkshire Dales, and how mining and, more recently US intelligence gathering, have affected the communities that live here
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Scott Covert – interview: ‘For me, each brushstroke is a lifetime’
In a long overdue first European exhibition, at Studio Voltaire, London, the American artist recounts his theatrical beginnings, a singular plein-air practice and why we should view his canvases as aquariums
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Brian Vincent and Heather Spore – interview: ‘Edward Brezinski really is the archetype of what it means to be a struggling artist’
On the occasion of their first feature documentary, the film-makers Brian Vincent and Heather Spore discuss the allure of New York’s East Village demi-monde, as observed in Make Me Famous, their vivid and melancholy portrait of the forgotten artist Edward…
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Leslie Jones – interview: ‘I wanted to recontextualise the material, not to remarginalise it, by looking at it again “in its moment””
Jones, the curator behind the Los Angeles Museum of Art’s much-anticipated exhibition of early works from the computer age, explains her vision for the project
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Ceyda Oskay – interview: ‘I often dislocate and repackage, reworking and unravelling things in new locations’
Oskay talks about her residency at Cork Printmakers in Ireland as part of a project that supports artists who are asylum seekers or refugees, and her work around the theme of migration
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Kyriaki Goni – interview: ‘For me, technology is an existential discussion’
The Greek artist discusses the interplay of technology with humans and nature that underpins her work, the influence of philosophy, botany and geology, and how she weaves these together with analogue and digital art to create powerful multimedia installations
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Jenkin van Zyl – interview: ‘The world has ended many times over’
The artist and film-maker guides us through his fantastical world of dancing rats, pneumatic tubes, dance marathons and inflatable hellmouths
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