Video Interviews

  • Five Issues of Studio International at Raven Row

    Studio international visited Raven Row in East London to talk to writer and curator Jo Melvin about the exhibition she has curated titled Five Issues of Studio International

  • Andrea Mason: ‘If I had to be categorised really simply … I am an artist who writes’

    Artist and writer Andrea Mason talked to us from her studio in Camberwell, south London about Literary Kitchen, the creative writing enterprise she founded, her collaboration with Philippe Bradshaw and the inspirations behind her current research and writing as art…

  • Sheila Hicks – interview: I’ve enjoyed a whole career of being an outsider

    The American-born artist Sheila Hicks invited us to join her on her brightly coloured pigmented bales in her site-specific installation at the Hayward Gallery Project Space, where she asked us if we knew the difference between a carrot and a…

  • Cornelia Parker: interview

    Known for her explosive works that cross the line between science and art, Parker spoke to us at the opening of her exhibition at The Whitworth, Manchester about why she wouldn’t necessarily call herself an artist and where her inspiration…

  • Lynda Benglis: ‘I think artists create their own rules’

    Here, the artist who was once dubbed the “heir to Pollock” and shocked the art world in 1974 by posing nude with a giant dildo, talks about her new show at Hepworth Wakefield and breaking rules

  • Basim Magdy: interview

    Basim Magdy reveals a world of colour in his films and photographs. The critically acclaimed Egyptian artist uses a poetic language of image, text and sound in his narratives of collective memory and forgetfulness. Science, futurology and the natural world…

  • Trish Wylie interview: ‘Wylie provides a hotline to the gods of the silver screen’

    Studio International has come to north west London to visit the painter Trish Wylie in her studio.

  • Marie Jacotey – Dolly

    One of this year’s Bloomberg New Contemporaries, 26-year-old, Paris-born Marie Jacotey is exhibiting 58 drawings on plaster in this, her first solo exhibition at the Hannah Barry Gallery

  • Matt Copson: interview

    Emerging artist Matt Copson’s alter ego is a vengeful fox named Reynard. Using ancient European folklore as inspiration, Copson has created a character that is both hateful and pitiful. Reynard has many manifestations, but at this year’s Bloomberg New Contemporaries…

  • Milou van der Maaden: interview

    Dutch artist Milou van der Maaden graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art this year and instantly caught the attention of the panellists selecting for Bloomberg New Contemporaries with her entry From A Head to A Head, a video…

  • Charles Richardson: interview

    Recent Slade graduate Charles Richardson has hit the ground running. This year, in addition to his inclusion in Bloomberg New Contemporaries, he won the coveted New Sensations prize. Richardson’s work is an intricate mix of mediums and ideas and has…

  • Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2014

    Studio International attended the opening night of Bloomberg New Contemporaries at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London to talk to those involved in this year’s competition

  • Alberto Biasi: interview

    In conversation with Studio International, Alberto Biasi reveals the singular motivations behind his work and its sometimes unexpected origins. He also sheds light on the processes involved in the creation of visually dynamic objects and how his infinitesimally precise manipulation…

  • Steven Appleby: interview

    Studio International visited the artist Steven Appleby’s studio in south London. Appleby, whose work is sometimes described as absurdist, is primarily known for his weekly cartoon strip, Loomus, in the Guardian

  • Adeline de Monseignat: interview

    Dutch-Monagesque artist Adeline de Monseignat’s work is greatly influenced by Sigmund Freud’s concept of the uncanny. For her current exhibition, Home at the Ronchini Gallery, she has created a large-scale installation exploring childhood memories

  • Aleah Chapin: interview

    American artist Aleah Chapin has had huge success early in her career. On graduating from the New York Academy of Art she was made a postgraduate fellow and went on to become one of the youngest artists to win the…

  • Glenn Ligon: interview

    Glenn Ligon, who was born in 1960, is famed for his thought-provoking works, which combine text, silkscreen painting, neon and video, and explore themes of identity, racism, sexuality and civil rights. Ligon spoke to Studio International before the opening of…

  • Nanda Vigo: interview

    A pioneer in modern Italian art, Nanda Vigo has continually skirted the confines of design, architecture and installation to compelling effect, in her own practice, as well as in her collaborations with other radical figures such as Lucio Fontana and…

  • Nadav Kander: interview

    Nadav Kander is an award-winning photographer with an international reputation. He has photographed politicians, film stars, royalty and Olympic athletes, as well as turning his attention to some ambitious landscape projects.

  • Vânia Mignone: interview

    In this conversation with Studio International about her first retrospective, titled Scenarios, at the Museum of Contemporary Art of the University of São Paulo, the painter Vânia Mignone explains her creative process, discloses her major influences, and tells us how…

  • Folkestone Triennial 2014

    For the third edition of this bustling summer exhibition, curator Lewis Biggs has invited a selection of internationally renowned and local artists to produce 21 new artworks in response to specific sites across the town

  • rootoftwo: interview

    The work of rootoftwo also responds to anxiety, but by measuring social media and people’s response to, and production of, fear on the internet. Five Whithervanes, at locations across town, spin and light up in different colours, according to the…

  • Emma Hart: interview

    Emma Hart’s work is full of anxiety. Located in an empty domestic space on Tontine Street, Folkestone, it fills the rooms with outlines of glasses, remnants of a party, and video screens that scream out, both in desolation and invitation.…

  • Pablo Bronstein: interview

    Pablo Bronstein, whose Sketches for Regency Living graced the walls of the ICA in London this summer, has brought to life a sculpture based on the ideas of 18th-century architect Nicholas Hawksmoor. Bronstein’s creation is a grey beach hut, next…