Interviews
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Clare Woods – interview: ‘Fragility and vulnerability have always been with me in my work’
Woods talks about her new prints and collages, now on show at Cristea Roberts gallery in London, their relationship to her paintings, and finding a silver lining in the pandemic
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Shara Hughes – interview: ‘I wanted the works to feel like figures you would visit at church, something divine’
The American artist Shara Hughes talks about the new paintings in her exhibition at the Garden Museum in London and the novelty of exhibiting in a church
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Rafael Pérez Evans – interview: ‘Food contains a lot of emotion’
The artist talks about growing up in a farming community in rural Spain, queer and rural shame, and the importance of reuniting living, thinking and making through a practice that disrupts
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Idris Khan – interview: ‘There was a struggle making these works’
The British artist talks about his new works at Victoria Miro, freaking out in lockdown and encapsulating a year in colour
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Clare Patey – interview: ‘People don’t take humour seriously enough’
Clare Patey talks about 25 years of creating and producing powerful, participatory, public artworks on climate change, plastic waste and loss of empathy
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Jadé Fadojutimi – interview: ‘I bathe in the conversations between colour, texture, line, form, composition, rhythm, marks and disturbances’
Jadé Fadojutimi talks about how lockdown enriched her practice, her obsession with Japan, her Liverpool Biennial exhibition – and why she wants her studio to feel like her bedroom
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Armin Linke – interview: ‘We have to look at different categories of photography and the artistic practice is re-framing them’
The film-maker and photographer discusses recording the evolution of human-environment relations, the role of technology on how we see, and his latest film, exploring the elaborate infrastructure of Lisbon’s aquarium, a ‘United Nations of fishes’
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Matt Jukes – interview: ‘You need to dream big, so you can shoot for the stars, and maybe reach the moon’
Matt Jukes talks about the pandemic, the effect of lockdown on our mental health, and his immersive, digital artwork Feelscape, which creates an abstract landscape from the emotions of a person’s memory of an event
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Mohamed Bourouissa – interview: ‘I see art as a playground’
Ahead of Mohamed Bourouissa’s survey exhibition at Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art, the Paris-based artist discusses his routes to art, his creative techniques and the perils of working locally
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Valerie Hird: What Did Happen to Alice; My Avatar
Hird’s exhibition includes her award-winning animated short film along with interactive stage sets and multimedia paintings
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Philip Hughes – interview: ‘Drawing captures the memory of a place like a diary’
Philip Hughes talks about his practice and what informed his new book, Painting the Ancient Land of Australia, which includes work he has created over the past 50 years
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Anne Hardy – interview: ‘I’m interested in residues, leftovers, stranded things, as carriers of potential’
Hardy talks about her new series of photograms, now online at Maureen Paley’s Studio M, how lockdown has affected her work – and her forthcoming residency in the Texan desert
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Peter Kennard – interview: ‘Montage is about allowing people to think critically’
Ahead of a new exhibition at Richard Saltoun Gallery, the celebrated political artist talks of photomontage, protest, art schools and image-making in an age of mass reproduction
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Harold Offeh – interview: ‘I am always asking: who is not part of the conversation? That is who you need to be addressing’
Offeh discusses boredom, curiosity and 1980s pop culture, the influence of punk and hip-hop, the joy of participatory creativity, social dance as a form of healing and artist-designed playgrounds
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Lana Locke – interview: ‘I look more at the racial connotations of colour and whiteness in relation to the laundry rather than dirt itself’
Locke talks about domesticity in life and art, colonialism and climate change –and how these concerns overlap in her new film
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Eleanor May Watson – interview: ‘Home is a sanctuary, but also a really complicated space for most people’
Eleanor May Watson talks about the weight of history, the evolving nature of her work and the complexities of the domestic space
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Prabhakar Pachpute – interview: ‘I juxtapose memories and what is happening in real life’
Prabhakar Pachpute talks about growing up in a coal-mining region in India, and how its associated landscape and characters have become his subject matter
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Tako Taal and Adam Benmakhlouf – interview: ‘This slow-motion style of festival creates a community of audience members’
Tako Taal and Adam Benmakhlouf discuss their ideas behind the 2021 Artists’ Moving Image Festival – and turning a weekend festival into a year-long event
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Luiz Zerbini – interview: ‘I treat a painting as an oracle’
Ahead of his delayed new exhibition at Stephen Friedman Gallery, Brazilian painter Luiz Zerbini discusses urbanity and nature, the power of geometry and the secret life of paintings
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Jordan Baseman on turning mastectomy tattoos into the subject of a cartoon – interview
Dealing with everything from embalming to post cancer surgery tattoos, Jordan Baseman’s films seek to explore difficult subjects with wit and honesty
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Sarah Wood – interview: ‘At the moment we all want to gather around stories, so I think art is going to be quite important in the future and I hope we value it’
Sarah Wood talks about what lockdown has taught her and how making her latest film piece has challenged the way she works
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Jim Dine – interview: ‘I never stop looking. I never stop examining. I never stop inventing from what I see’
Jim Dine talks about his six-decade-long career, his various mediums of expression, his use of Pinocchio as a metaphor for art, and how he will never give up on a work
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Katharina Grosse – interview: ‘My eyes are my most important tools’
Katharina Grosse talks about the importance of layering, colour and bodily intelligence in her painting practice, and her work on show at the Fondazione Merz in Turin, which is inspired by the medieval tale of Perceval and the Black Knight
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Trulee Hall – interview: ‘When I say “whore”, I wouldn’t say that it’s a bad word’
Trulee Hall talks about her multimedia practice, her views on sex and voyeurism, and how she hopes her giant, golden corn-on-the-cobs and dancing, milk-squirting boobs will offer visitors a new experience
