Video Interviews
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Tony Cragg – interview: ‘There are many more things that do not exist than things that do exist’
In the gardens of Castle Howard, north Yorkshire, Tony Cragg talks about his different sculptural series and the juxtapositions, links and contrasts they bring to the stately home’s permanent collection, architecture and landscape
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Antony Gormley – interview: ‘What is made here is a repositioning of the relationship of body to ground’
Probably the UK’s best-known contemporary sculptor, Gormley has created a new ‘field’ of 100 life-size cast-iron versions of himself at the historic Houghton Hall in Norfolk, where he talked to us about the work
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Gayle Chong Kwan – interview: ‘I’ve made a connection between displays of constructed power and childlike play’
The artist talks about using sand and sugar to make historic and contemporary connections between Mauritius and the Isle of Wight and between colonial power, indentured labour, leisure and childhood
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Alia Farid: ‘The vessel shapes speak of the different cultural and trade networks in the Arabian and Gulf peninsula’
The industrialisation of water infrastructure and its damaging environmental impacts underpin Alia Farid’s work. At the opening of Artes Mundi 10, she talks about hervast sculptures in the shape of water vessels that speak of different trades, cultures and eras
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Rushdi Anwar: ‘My work is a reflection on the hypocrisy of politics and politicians’
At the opening of Artes Mundi 10, Anwar, a Kurdish-born artist who now divides his time between Thailand and Australia, discusses his work’s articulation of the violence and degradation brought about by divisive ideologies and colonialism
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Carolina Caycedo: ‘There are struggles that are connected worldwide. Hopefully my work becomes a bridge between these struggles’
At the opening of Artes Mundi 10, Caycedo talks about her work exposing environmental abuses, racial injustice and celebrating acts of feminist and indigenous resistance
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Olga Grotova – interview: ‘I started to think how soil and plants are sometimes the only witnesses’
In her east London studio, Olga Grotova talks about the ‘choreographic’ process and inspiration for dense, mysterious works bearing the imprints of plants and limbs, layered with soil and pigments to reveal hidden narratives and tales of trauma
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Marina Abramović takes over London
‘Four months ago I was in a coma… if I’d died, I’d be the only dead female artist in 250 years showing at the Royal Academy!’
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Pam Evelyn – interview: ‘Now I’m realising that these existential collapses with the painting are actually necessary’
In her studio in Dalston, east London, Pam Evelyn talks about the push and pull of making one of her large-scale abstract paintings and learning to live with its contradictions and tensions
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David Remfry – interview: ‘It’s unprecedented that there were no arguments whatsoever this year’
At 80 years old, David Remfry was just coming to terms with the opportunity to co-ordinate the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition having passed him by. Then he got a phone call from the President …
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Risham Syed – interview: ‘It’s an inward-looking invitation to contemplation’
Syed talks about Each Tiny Drop, her intervention in a city park, as part of Manchester International Festival 2023, that she hopes will help to build communities around a body of water
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Ryan Gander – interview: ‘The stuff outside in the world is way better than anything you’ll find in any museum’
The artist explains why he is giving away free coins at the Manchester International Festival and how he hopes to capture the attention of the 99% of people who aren’t interested in contemporary art
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Tino Sehgal – interview: ‘It’s an invitation to think about skill and what it means in the body and in space’
The enigmatic and publicity-averse artist discusses his new work for Manchester International Festival 2023, gamesmanship, the ‘craft’ skills of cycling, football and musicianship, and how the pandemic has changed human interaction
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Paul Smith – interview: ‘I’d often look up and ask the boss, “Mr Picasso, would you like that?”’
To mark the 50th anniversary of Picasso’s death, the Musée National Picasso, Paris, commissioned a re-presentation of its extensive collection and invited the designer Paul Smith to be its artistic director. Studio International caught up with him at the resulting…
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Dominic Harris – interview: ‘I’m trying to empower the viewer to assume a larger force within the artworks’
At his latest exhibition, Feeding Consciousness, at the Halcyon Gallery, the British artist discussed his inspirations and the artistic processes behind the interactive digital artworks on show
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Shanti Panchal – interview: ‘It’s a meditative process, a layering of colour, sometimes 10 or 15 layers’
The artist discusses the enduring power of painting, the evolution of his watercolour technique, the influence of his childhood landscape on palette and subject, and the importance of persistence
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Wu Tsang – interview: ‘I’m drawn to stories that have messy politics’
Tsang trains a postcolonial lens on Herman Melville’s 19th-century novel Moby-Dick for her immersive video installation Of Whales and beguiling silent film MOBY DICK; or, The Whale. She talks about the works, staged by TBA21, now on show at Museo…
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Rebecca Fortnum – interview: ‘I’m trying to bring these women back to life by painting them in flesh-like tones’
As Fortnum was at the Henry Moore Institute, installing her exhibition of paintings and drawings of sculptures of women connected to Rodin, she spoke candidly about her belief that the sculptor received a ‘bad press’ and about the slippage between…
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David Mach – interview: ‘I tried to make myself known as an ideas monger’
Before his show Heavy Metal, now on at Pangolin London, we spoke to Mach about what fuels his inclination to work at scale and the importance of necessary extravagance when making art with the stuff of everyday life, from matches…
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Zineb Sedira – interview: ‘It makes sense to include part of my life, part of me, in the work’
Sedira discusses her acclaimed French Pavilion for the 2022 Venice Biennale, as well as how the sea became a leitmotif for transnational identity in Can’t You See the Sea Changing?, her solo exhibition at De Le Warr Pavilion and Dundee Contemporary Arts
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Grace Ndiritu – interview: ‘Museums hold our collective past and they can hold our future’
Ndiritu talks about her show at the Wellcome Collection, where a Zen Buddhism-inspired temple allows visitors to contemplate her tapestries Repair and Restitution, and explains why reshaping the role of museums is so important to her
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Sámi Pavilion (Nordic Countries), Venice Biennale 2022
Sámi artists Anders Sunna, Máret Ánne Sara and Pauliina Feodoroff have transformed the Nordic Pavilion to highlight the continuing struggle against colonialism, discrimination and land possession faced by Europe’s only Indigenous people
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Permindar Kaur – interview: ‘It’s hard to get a balance in the work: an equal amount of threat and an equal amount of softness’
The sculptor talks to us about her playful use of the domestic realm to explore feelings of belonging and cultural identity
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Lubna Chowdhary – interview: ‘Erratic is a useful analogy for a diaspora artist’
With swooping forms and blazing colour, Chowdhary explores the grey areas between east and west, sculpture and architecture, and the functional and the decorative. She talks here about the themes that underpin her work
