Video Interviews
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Zhan Wang: ‘I have been continually influenced by Michelangelo, Rodin and traditional Chinese sculpture’
The Beijing-based artist is a photographer and video artist, although he is best known for sculpting highly polished stainless steel rocks, a cultural reference to the ‘scholar stones’ loved by the Chinese for their aesthetic appearance
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Ayakamay: ‘I’m a street performer’
Ayakamay is an American-born Japanese artist ‘exploring the interrelationship between photography and performance’
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Martino Gamper: British Art Show 8
Now in its eighth year, the British Art Show is the largest and most ambitious touring exhibition of contemporary art in the UK, bringing together emerging artists worth watching with those who have been working for three or four decades.…
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Rachel Maclean: British Art Show 8
Now in its eighth year, the British Art Show is the largest and most ambitious touring exhibition of contemporary art in the UK, bringing together emerging artists worth watching with those who have been working for three or four decades.…
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Ryan Gander: British Art Show 8
Now in its eighth year, the British Art Show is the largest and most ambitious touring exhibition of contemporary art in the UK, bringing together emerging artists worth watching with those who have been working for three or four decades.…
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Laure Prouvost: British Art Show 8
Now in its eighth year, the British Art Show is the largest and most ambitious touring exhibition of contemporary art in the UK, bringing together emerging artists worth watching with those who have been working for three or four decades.…
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Ciara Phillips: British Art Show 8
Now in its eighth year, the British Art Show is the largest and most ambitious touring exhibition of contemporary art in the UK, bringing together emerging artists worth watching with those who have been working for three or four decades.…
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Derek Boshier: ‘I think I’ve turned from pop artist to popularist’
The artist rails against technology and right-wing newspapers, tells of his aspirations to create an entire exhibition in one day, and shares some – at times almost side-splitting – stories from his colourful career
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British Art Show 8
Now in its eighth year, the British Art Show is the largest and most ambitious touring exhibition of contemporary art in the UK, bringing together emerging artists worth watching with those who have been working for three or four decades
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Sculpture in the City 2015
Now in its fifth year, the public art exhibition Sculpture in the City is showing 14 works by contemporary artists around London’s Square Mile
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What Do I Need to do to Make It OK?
Curator Liz Cooper discusses this exhibition at London’s Pumphouse Gallery, which investigates repair through the language of thread and textiles and explores the frustrations and liberations of contemporary artists challenging the conventions of craft
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Matthew Darbyshire: ‘If I can’t get hold of what I want, I’ll fake it’
The artist talks about design and consumer culture, the role of colour as a democratiser, the need to ‘fake it’ and why Baudrillard’s predictions are not coming true – yet
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Carl Plackman: Obscure Territories
Carl Plackman rarely discussed his work, which, spanning sculpture, drawing and installation, refuses to be defined. During his long overdue exhibition at Pangolin London, Studio International spoke to his former student, Mark Dunhill, to get some insights into the man…
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Anj Smith: ‘The figure is a device on which to hang my concerns’
The artist talks about the collapsing of genres, her desire to portray identity post gender and painting as a metaphor for something eternal
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YARAT: The Union of Fire and Water – Venice Biennale 2015
The Union of Fire and Water presents a historical and cultural superimposition of Baku and Venice as seen through the eyes of two artists, Rashad Alakbarov and Almagul Menlibayeva. Studio International talked to the artists, alongside the curator Suad Garayeva,…
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Anita Glesta: ‘I would like this work to be a vehicle of communication – like a moving-image billboard’
The artist talks about the motivation behind her brightly coloured projection of frenzied fish on to the National Theatre as part of the Totally Thames festival
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Shani Rhys James: ‘I love the luxuriousness of a flower’s abstract shape’
The artist talks about her dramatic paintings, the significance of red and her own particular take on melancholia
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Chudamani Clowes: ‘I wanted to show immigration and migration in a positive light’
The artist talks about immigration, her personal connection to west London and the human tragedies that have inspired her most recent work
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The art behind the activist: Adrian Locke talks about Ai Weiwei
A rebel, an iconoclast and a playful symbolist – Ai Weiwei is all these things, but surely history will remember him as one of China’s most influential dissident artists. Curator Adrian Locke talks about Ai’s latest exhibition at the Royal…
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Vincent Meessen: ‘In the western world, we still think that we created everything’ – Venice Biennale 2015
Eleven artists come together to reflect on colonialism and its aftermath in a complex, multimedia, collaborative exhibition, which pulls apart the notions of origin and authorship
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Charles Lim: ‘It’s very easy to see the sea as a sublime space where you can even find God’ – Venice Biennale 2015
With his sailing background, Charles Lim explains, he sees the sea as ‘just an office’. His 10-year-old, 10-part project, Sea State, explores the biophysical, political and psychic contours of Singapore, which this year celebrates the 50th anniversary of its independence
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Richard Long: Time and Space
Fifteen years after Richard Long’s last exhibition of any scale in his native Bristol, he is the Arnolfini’s showcase artist during the city’s 2015 European Green Capital celebrations. Director Kate Brindley speaks to Studio International about the exhibition
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Toni Scott: ‘People don’t understand that what’s in the past is still with us today’
The California-based multimedia artist Toni Scott talks about how, in DNA – Bloodlines and the Family of Mankind, she has woven her own personal family history with the universal history of African Americans and Native Americans in “a celebration of…
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Eloise Hawser: ‘This machine is all about contact and resistance’
The artist explains the complex mechanisms of a cinema organ and its colour-changer to Studio International with ease and clarity
