Interviews
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Phyllis Christopher – interview: ‘We had come out, people were dying, we had nothing to lose, so we just wanted to have the best party’
The photographer talks about her coming of age in 1990s San Francisco, where, despite the Aids crisis, lesbians, in the post-lesbian feminist era, largely wanted to come together, have fun and create visibility
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Adam Jeppesen – interview: ‘I embrace imperfection’
The Danish artist talks about why he left documentary-making to make art, the project that took him from the north pole to Antarctica, and the thoughts behind the work in his latest show, his first solo exhibition in the UK
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Annie Morris – interview: ‘All my work revolves around experiences I’ve had. A lot is based on things I’m not comfortable talking about’
Morris, who has three new shows, at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Frieze Sculpture and Timothy Taylor in London, discusses how personal tragedy and childhood memories feed into her work
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Yoan Capote – interview: ‘When a Cuban looks at the sea, he remembers the isolation and pain of thousands of families’
The artist talks about his new series of large-scale paintings, Requiem, and how his work is influenced by timeless themes such as migration, death and the sea
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Hans Op de Beeck – interview: ‘It’s about suspension of disbelief and how far you can take a spectator into something undeniably fake’
The artist talks about art-making as catharsis and why, for him, it is all about the creation of visual fiction
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Doron Langberg – interview: ‘There’s this rush of empathy and emotion’
As his first London gallery show opens, the Brooklyn-based artist talks intimacy, immediacy and queer subjectivity
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Graham Little – interview: ‘Smallness feels natural to me’
Ahead of his new exhibition at Alison Jacques Gallery, the Scottish painter talks about the male gaze, motherhood and the mountains of the mind
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Matthew Krishanu – interview: ‘I want my paintings to exist somewhere between the precision of a photograph and something looser’
Krishanu, whose figurative paintings explore childhood, religion, colonialism and empire, talks about why he works from photographs, his hope that viewers will inhabit the people in his paintings, and his inclusion at a forthcoming show at the Hayward Gallery
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Angela Heisch – interview: ‘I think of these works as theatrical – they’re emotive and dramatic as well as gestural’
As she prepared for her first solo UK show, at the Pippy Houldsworth Gallery in London, Heisch spoke of how these new works are very much summer paintings, with the colours used to radiate energy, exuberance and motivation
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Rebecca Salter – interview: ‘I believe that art thrives in a crisis and this can be a cause for hope’
The first female president of the Royal Academy talks about the impact the pandemic has had on the institution and on her own work, and why Japanese art has had such a major influence for her
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Hormazd Narielwalla – interview: ‘True, he’s physically not here, but Bowie, the god, is still with us’
The artist talks about capturing the essence of David Bowie, through the creation of his trademark paper-pattern collages, in his most recent, limited-edition artist’s book
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Karla Black – interview: ‘I don’t see culture and nature as separate things. There’s just a huge pretend around them’
Karla Black, whose sculptures are now on show at the Fruitmarket, Edinburgh, talks about the power of colour, the seduction of cosmetics and the delicious disruption of institutional space through her chaotic, celebratory material explorations
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Mick Peter – interview: ‘The project was pleasingly indulgent, a free pass to propose almost anything’
Amid the playful life-size figures at his new show, Gerroff!! (or User Feedback), Mick Peter discusses making sculptures that look like big drawings and how he hopes to subvert people’s interactions with public art
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Jakob Kudsk Steensen – interview: ‘There’s so much that we forget in the virtual’
Ahead of an enormous new installation in Berlin’s fabled nightclub Berghain, the Danish artist talks virtual reality, field work and the importance of wetlands
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Brett Rogers – interview: ‘When I was a student, the Photographers’ Gallery was one of my favourite places to visit’
The director of the Photographers’ Gallery talks about her own love of photography and how the organisation is celebrating its 50th-anniversary programme alongside ambitious plans for the future
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Cathie Pilkington – interview: ‘It’s great to have a title that makes people think’
The artist talks about the importance of democracy in her practice, how she feels she sits – or doesn’t! – within the patriarchal tradition, and how she has a resistance to finalising a work and defining where it begins and…
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Mark Leckey – interview: ‘There’s this strange new limitless and elastic space that we are now inhabiting on a daily basis’
Leckey shares his circuitous journey to art-world success, his passion for music, film and outsider culture, and the powerful way our online lives are shaping how we feel and even how we sound
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Nicholas Pope: ‘We artists can speak and everyone can understand in their own way what we’re speaking about’
To coincide with three major shows of his work, Nicholas Pope speaks about his successes, travels, tribulations and breakthroughs – and, in everything, his joy in making and thinking shines through
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Tesfaye Urgessa – interview: ‘Young people don’t need to have a geographical boundary. They belong where the dream is’
Tesfaye Urgessa talks about his latest exhibition, breaking down borders and what home means to him
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Michael Armitage – interview: ‘Not having a cultural hierarchy is liberating’
As his show, Paradise Edict, opens at the Royal Academy in London, Michael Armitage talks about the pandemic, painting, politics and his dual Kenyan-UK heritage
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Kate Atkin – interview: ‘I think about life and death all the time’
On the eve of Floating Heads, a new show at Xxijra Hii in London, Atkin talks about her exotic and fantastic pencil drawings, her new micro sculptures, and how a random Polaroid spawned her whole drawing practice
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Rachel Kneebone – interview: ‘My work is concerned with our visceral life, with movement and the experience of inhabiting the body’
Sculptor Rachel Kneebone talks about her forthcoming exhibition at Yorkshire Sculpture Park and the new direction her work is taking
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Sutapa Biswas – interview: ‘I felt questioning established systems of knowledge and power was as vital as breathing’
Sutapa Biswas talks about her lifelong quest to decolonialise British art history, and about her two forthcoming exhibitions
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Jean David Nkot – interview: ‘I want to show that even if every day is hard, it is worth being alive’
The artist talks about the development of his practice, and how he uses three distinct layers to add levels of meaning and interpretation to his human and territorial portraits
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