Video Interviews
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Emma Cousin: ‘Humour is the most important thing’
Studio International visited Transition Gallery in east London to speak to Cousin about painting, inspiration and teaching her grandma how to swim
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Helen Sear: ‘It’s almost like the landscape is imprinted on the figure’ – Venice Biennale 2015
In her exploration of mortality and temporality, Helen Sear seeks to disrupt the single-point perspective of the camera. She talks about her literary and filmic influences and how even the personal, poetic and local can strike a universal chord
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Sergio Camargo: Mármore
Sergio Camargo (1930-90) was a prominent artist in Rio de Janeiro, where he was born, and gained international recognition at the Venice Biennale (1966 and 1982). Working extensively in France and Europe, Camargo was a master of modular geometric constructions,…
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Herman de Vries: ‘My guru is a squirrel’ – Venice Biennale 2015
Herman de Vries, whose work spreads far beyond the confines of the Rietveld pavilion, explains why he looks to this creature for guidance in every day living, noting the importance of nature as mother, truth and teacher
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Patricia Cronin: ‘A silent protest can be quite powerful’ – Venice Biennale 2015
Patricia Cronin talks about Shrine for Girls, her installation at the Venice Biennale that commemorates three girls raped in India, 276 schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram, and the women of the Magdalene laundries, and what compelled her to speak out
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Geoffrey Eastop: ‘The character of the mark describes the object’
Geoffrey Eastop – his creative legacy. Studio international visited Ecchinswell in Hampshire – to view Geoffrey Eastop’s Open Studio. We had arranged to interview Eastop, but very sadly he died at the age of 93, on Christmas Day 2014, some…
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Sarah Lucas: I Scream Daddio – Venice Biennale 2015
Sarah Lucas came to prominence in the 90s with the generation of Young British Artists, but it has taken her until now, at the age of 52, to be invited to represent Britain at the Venice Biennale. Curator Richard Riley…
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On My Way – Venice Biennale 2015
As a parallel event to the Venice Biennale, a group of artists from Russia present an exhibition that juxtaposes works made in new and traditional media, further undermining the principle of media-specificity. Studio International spoke to some of the artists
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Graham Fagen: ‘Come into the garden and forget about the war’ – Venice Biennale 2015
Glasgow-based artist Graham Fagen, who is representing Scotland for the 56th Venice Biennale, has mixed Robbie Burns with Reggae in a homage to his homeland and Jamaican culture. He talks to Studio International about his work
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Catlin Art Prize 2015
Eight of the UK’s most promising arts graduates are picked each year to show at the Catlin Art Prize exhibition. Studio International went along to talk to the 2015 finalists and see their work, including that of the overall winner,…
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Brown & Son: Art That Makes Itself
Father and son Paul and Daniel Brown work together as Brown & Son, ‘Purveyors of digital images since 1968’, using computers to make art. They talked to Studio International about their collaboration and their first joint exhibition, at Watermans Art…
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Klaus Staudt: interview
A leading practitioner of concrete-constructivist art for some 50 years, Klaus Staudt was also part of the pan-European New Tendencies movement, composed of distinct voices researching similar concerns in an almost laboratory-like context
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Gordon Shrigley: ‘What I’m doing now is a form of performance art that combines the space of the gallery with the standard tropes of politics’
An artist who has been concerned with concepts related to the line for more than 20 years, Gordon Shrigley explains why he is now working with performance
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Gordon Shrigley: ‘I wanted to use the possibilities of fine art to create an ambiguous utopian space’
Artist Gordon Shrigley has entered the fray for the 2015 general election, standing against sitting Labour MP Meg Hillier as a candidate for the Campaign party in Hackney South and Shoreditch
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C4RD, the Centre for Recent Drawing
Artist Andrew Hewish founded C4RD, the Centre for Recent Drawing, ‘on the smell of an oil rag’ in a studio in Bethnal Green in east London in 2004. A member of the museum association of the UK and a UK…
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Andrew Hewish: ‘I’m interested in a process of drift, where things are allowed to happen’
Artist and C4RD director Andrew Hewish discusses how he makes objects and paintings using a broad variety of materials
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Gordon Shrigley: ‘Will Peck and I had lots of conversations about what the form of a residency is’
Will Peck, a recent graduate, and Gordon Shrigley, artist, (Gordon has various strings to his bow and asked me to describe him solely as ‘an artist’) talk about their collaborative residency at C4RD
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Andrew Hewish: ‘To introduce drawing as a category automatically produces interesting ways of thinking’
Artist Andrew Hewish founded C4RD, the Centre for Recent Drawing, ‘on the smell of an oil rag’ in a studio in Bethnal Green in east London in 2004
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Louise Cattrell: ‘I think you can use your memory to create that 360-degree panorama’
Landscape artist Louise Cattrell shares her secrets for bringing the viewer into the landscape and explains the magic of being presented with a blank white canvas
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Gavin Turk: ‘For a long time I’d say: “I don’t think I’m growing a beard, I’m just not shaving”’
For the launch of Project Beard at the Other Art Fair, artist Gavin Turk will shave off his beard in stages, transforming himself into six famous artists from Auguste Rodin to Salvador Dalí. Anna McNay went to Turk’s east London…
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Sarah Jane Moon: ‘Painting is fundamentally the relationship between an artist’s senses and the subject’s presence’
Having trained in portrait painting at the Heatherley School of Fine Art, Sarah Jane Moon went on to receive commendations from the Royal British Society of Sculptors and the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, which awarded her the 2013 Bulldog Bursary.
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Making It: Sculpture in Britain 1977-1986
In the purpose-built Longside Gallery at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, the Arts Council Collection has brought together the work of 40 artists from between 1977-1986, a period that saw the emergence of a new young generation of British sculptors
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Tina Keane: ‘With film, you never quite know what you’re going to get’
Multimedia artist Tina Keane talks about her early work, the influences that have developed her practice, and her primary concerns as an artist making work today
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Marvin Gaye Chetwynd: ‘But is it art? I don’t even care’
Performance artist and Turner-prize nominee Marvin Gaye Chetwynd explains why she turned her attention to designing a children’s play area for a London leisure centre
