Video Interviews
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John Gibbons – interview
In his Basildon studio, sculptor John Gibbons talks about light, the Big Bang, the importance of openness and modelling Winston Churchill’s hands
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Melania Toma – interview
Toma explains her interest in collective and interspecies perspectives, her dynamic process, and her quest to unearth the stories hidden in organic and industrial fabrics
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Mark Manders – interview
London Mithraeum is the perfect space for Manders’ three new yet timeless works. Before the opening of his first public exhibition in the UK, the artist talks about time, language and the human mind, and how wanting to become a…
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Nat Faulkner – interview
At the opening of his first public exhibition, Nat Faulkner, winner of the Camden Art Centre Emerging Artist Prize at Frieze 2024, talks about his fascination for the darkroom, what attracts him in the analogue process, and how Londoners’ use…
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Jumana Emil Abboud – interview
‘We can be anything we want to be through the stories we can make and unmake’
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Anawana Haloba – interview
‘With everything that’s going on in the world, we talk about things, but we really don’t listen’
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Ro Robertson – interview: ‘The female shipbuilders of Sunderland have been a big inspiration’
At Sunderland’s Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, which stands beside the River Wear, is a new exhibition by Ro Robertson. We met them there to talk about the central installation and the other works in their first solo institutional show
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Mikhail Karikis – interview: ‘What is the soundscape of the forthcoming future? The women’s response was gasping’
Karikis explains the ideas behind his new sound and video installation calling for action against climate change, on which he has collaborated with the SHE cooperative choir for women and non-binary people
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Maggi Hambling: ‘The sea is sort of inside me now … [and] it’s as if she has become a wave’
Maggi Hambling’s new and highly personal installation, Time, in memory of her longtime partner, Tory Lawrence, opens the first arts and culture programme at Norfolk’s 18th-century Wolterton Hall as part of the exhibition Sea State
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Rijksakademie Open Studios: Nora Aurrekoetxea, AYO and Eniwaye Oluwaseyi
At the Rijksakademie’s annual Open Studios event during Amsterdam Art Week, we spoke to three artists about the work they have produced during their residency
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Nora Aurrekoetxea – interview: Rijksakademie Open Studios
Nora Aurrekoetxea focuses on her home in Amsterdam, disorienting domestic architecture to ask us to contemplate the way it shapes us and ingrains itself in our bodies and psychology
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Eniwaye Oluwaseyi – interview: Rijksakademie Open Studios
Eniwaye Oluwaseyi paints figures, including himself, friends and members of his family, within compositions that explore the transience of identity
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AYO – interview: Rijksakademie Open Studios
AYO reflects on her upbringing and ancestry in Uganda from her current position as a resident of the Netherlands, using sculpture, sound and performance to create an in-between space of ambiguous, embodied translation
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Delaine Le Bas – interview: ‘People still have expectations about what I should or shouldn’t be doing’
From the heart of her installation at the White House in east London, the Romany artist talks about her inspirations, her processes, and how she seeks to deconstruct the stereotypes, language and images that are used to exclude Gypsy, Roma…
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Shu Lea Cheang and Dondon Hounwn – interview: ‘Hagay Dreaming continually evolves and pushes forward through performance’
Speaking during rehearsals, Cheang and Hounwn reflect on the sources of inspiration for the project, on the developmental curve from its inception to its first full theatrical performance at Tate, what audiences might expect and what messages are being transmitted
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Alison Watt – interview: ‘I have spent my whole life working from life, so to work from death was a different experience’
The Scottish artist’s astounding trompe l’oeil still lifes of artefacts inspired by the life and times of Sir John Soane integrate into the architecture of Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery, creating an engaging 18th-century Gesamtkunstwerk
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Lindsey Mendick – interview: ‘My brain is not my best friend’
What is it to be a woman who doesn’t have all her shit together and to be making work that is quite salacious or tongue in cheek? Lindsey Mendick opens up
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Karolina Albricht, Basil Beattie and Lizzie Munn – interviews: ‘What abstract painting means to me’
Three artists talk about the paintings they are exhibiting in the Saatchi Gallery’s Unreal City: Abstract Painting in London
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Basil Beattie – interview: ‘passageway, corridor, ladder, staircase, tunnel: they are all words I use metaphorically with regard to other human experiences’
Rooted in abstract painting, Basil Beattie has for many years developed a uniquely powerful vocabulary of metaphoric images
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Karolina Albricht – interview: ‘I was fascinated by how an image plays on different levels: an image that describes something, and an image that can transcend, perhaps, and provide access to the divine’
Albricht discusses her ambitious multi-part painting inspired by the Eastern European tradition of Icon painting
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Lizzie Munn – interview: ‘Composing them on a wall, rather than being held in the plane like a painting, the layers are more actual than illusionistic’
A recent graduate of the Royal Academy Schools, Lizzie Munn works between printing, painting, sculpture and installation
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Mali Morris – interview: ‘A phrase that I use as a mantra is “What if?”’
In the run up to her exhibition at Hatton Gallery, Morris talks about her processes of applying and removing paint and the dynamic between planning and chance
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Garth Evans – interview: ‘There has to be the sense that the physicality of one’s being is engaged’
In the lead up to his 90th birthday, the sculptor talks to Sam Cornish, curator of A Place in the World, his current exhibition in Mexico, about the role of colour in sculpture, the necessity of working without concern for…
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Hildigunnur Birgisdóttir – interview: ‘I am inspired by the underwhelming’
Recycled jute coffee bags, plastic pizza and a heap of wet wipes – for Iceland’s Pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennale, Birgisdóttir takes a wry look at our consumerist society and the mixed messages we absorb subliminally
