Video Interviews

  • Jyll Bradley: interview

    Jyll Bradley, a native of Folkestone, has returned to the town to create a wonderful homage to the Kentish hop gardens with which she grew up. Her work invites viewers to walk among the strings and green Plexiglas and neon…

  • Alex Hartley: interview

    Fresh from his incredible journey with Nowhereisland, Alex Hartley speaks to us from his lookout atop the Grand Burstin Hotel. With a vigil being held for the duration of the Folkestone Triennial, we were lucky enough to experience the view…

  • Lewis Biggs: interview

    Lewis Biggs is this year’s curator of the Folkestone Triennial, invited to join after 11 years as chief executive and artistic director of the Liverpool Biennial. He was also director of Tate Liverpool from 1990-2000. Biggs speaks to us about…

  • Alastair Upton: interview

    Alastair Upton is chief executive of The Creative Foundation, an independent visionary arts charity seeking to rejuvenate Folkestone through creative activity. As well as restoring more than 90 buildings in the Creative Quarter and building the Quarterhouse arts venue, they…

  • Ed Atkins: interview

    Anna McNay spoke to Ed Atkins about his current exhibition at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery, where his film Ribbons (2014) is showing alongside related installations of text and image

  • Anita Taylor: interview

    Anita Taylor, dean of Bath School of Art and Design at Bath Spa University and the founder of the Jerwood drawing prize project, talked to Studio International about her own drawing practice, the importance of drawing in education, and the…

  • Rose Wylie: interview

    Studio International visited the painter Rose Wylie in her studio in Kent, to see the new paintings she’s working on. Wylie, who is 80 this year, and has painted all her life, has also taught in further education, and, with…

  • Ben Quilty: interview

    Ben Quilty’s first solo London show opened at the Saatchi Gallery on 4 July, celebrating his winning of the inaugural Prudential Eye Award, 2014.

  • Marina Abramović: interview

    In 2010, Marina Abramović took over MOMA in New York for a 736 hour and 30 minute long performance, The Artist is Present, during which time visitors could sit opposite her, meeting her gaze and feeling her energy.

  • Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2014

    Studio International visited this year’s Royal Academy Summer Exhibition before the party began, and talked to some key figures behind the scenes, responsible for this eclectic display of over 1,200 works of art. Some of the works are by renowned…

  • Ben Johnson: interview

    Studio International visited the Alan Cristea gallery to talk to the painter Ben Johnson. This is his second exhibition at the gallery, comprising five new paintings of half-real, half-imagined interiors. Born in Wales, a graduate of the Royal College of…

  • Shezad Dawood: interview

    The multidisciplinary artist Shezad Dawood’s first solo London show opened at the Parasol Unit in April this year. Titled Towards the Possible Film, Dawood’s practice tells us stories that draw from multicultural sources while dancing with issues that concern humanity.…

  • Zhang Enli: interview

    Zhang Enli talked to Studio International at the opening of his exhibition, The Box, at Hauser & Wirth, Saville Row, London. We began by asking Zhang what kind of materials he uses in his work.

  • Alex Warren and Tobias Ross-Southall, directors of Eleanor: interview

    In 2010, when Studio International first went to Studio 205 in Camden,1 it was a shopfront and a large airy warehouse. Now, it is the Cob Gallery, a smartly tailored space hosting some remarkable exhibitions and enterprises, including Cobble Together…

  • Kurt Jackson: interview

    Kurt Jackson, one of Britain’s most celebrated landscape painters, talks to Studio International about the inspiration he finds in Cape Cornwall, near St Just – the most westerly town in England.

  • Tomás Saraceno: interview

    Tomás Saraceno’s work encompasses utopian architectural proposals exploring his ideas for a sustainable metropolis in the sky

  • Jonathan Gabb: interview

    Using a carefully balanced combination of PVA glue and acrylic paints – the precise measures of which only he knows – Jonathan Gabb is a painter with a difference. Starting out with vast sheets of pure colour in huge trays…

  • Kara Walker: interview

    At the opening of Kara Walker’s first UK exhibition, we spoke to her about her work, which is a dark and, at times, sinister, exploration of race, gender, sexuality and violence in American history and society. Best known for her…

  • Philomene Pirecki: interview

    London-based artist Philomene Pirecki has just been shortlisted for the Max Mara Art Prize for Women. In addition to this, her current show, Image Persistence, is the inaugural exhibition at Supplement Gallery’s new space at 96 Teesdale Street in Bethnal…

  • Bedwyr Williams: interview

    Living in a small village in north Wales, Bedwyr Williams is the first to confess that most people there, including his partner, think he is a little strange. And indeed, there is no straight talking with this polymath-artist-come-standup comedian whose…

  • Ibrahim El-Salahi: A Visionary Modernist

    Miguel Benavides talks to Ibrahim El-Salahi about his Sudanese heritage, his time in prison on unfounded suspicion of anti-government activities, politics, his career, having sympathy for the underdog, and what makes good art.

  • Patrick Hughes: interview

    Hughes’ new exhibition at Flowers, Cork Street, includes nine new paintings employing his unique technique of reverspective.

  • Liane Lang: interview

    Liane Lang’s works combine a mixture of photography and grotesquely lifelike silicon and rubber sculpture. Having recently undertaken a residency at the Memento Sculpture Park in Budapest, where she found herself amidst the supersized discarded sculptures of heroes from the…