Video Interviews
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Yuki Kihara: Paradise Camp – Venice Biennale 2022
The artist, who is of mixed Japanese and Samoan heritage, talks about showcasing queer rights and revealing the toxic influence of colonialism in her works
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Alberta Whittle: Deep Dive (Pause) Uncoiling Memory – Venice Biennale 2022
The Barbadian-Scottish artist has used sculpture, film and tapestry for her Scotland in Venice presentation. Her aim, she says, is to show that, through self-compassion and collective care, we can battle racism and colonialism
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Pilvi Takala: Close Watch – Venice Biennale 2022
Close Watch, Takala’s multi-channel video at the Finnish Pavilion, is based on her time working undercover as a security guard in a large shopping centre. As she explains, it explores the concept of how private companies exert control over the…
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Angela Su: Arise: Hong Kong in Venice – Venice Biennale 2022
Su talks about the new age group that tried to levitate the Pentagon, a story that informed her show at Venice, and says a lot of her work is about the interior of the body and physical transformation
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Niamh O’Malley: Gather – Venice Biennale 2022
O’Malley says she wants her Irish Pavilion installation to be a welcoming space, for visitors to ‘feel the power and the height and weight of things’
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Jonathas de Andrade: With the Heart Coming Out of the Mouth – Venice Biennale 2022
Giant ears, a massive inflatable heart and a disembodied head – De Andrade explains why he has filled the Brazilian Pavilion with an odd assortment of body parts
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Sigurður Guðjónsson: Perpetual Motion – Venice Biennale 2022
In the darkness of the Icelandic Pavilion, Sigurður Guðjónsson talks about his monumental video work – a visceral experience, its scale and form resonant with its architectural setting and enhanced by a primal soundtrack
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Mark Francis – video interview: ‘l like to use a grid to convey order and chaos. Both things can reside on the same plane’
Francis discusses the evolution of his subject matter, his techniques, his use of colour, the importance and influence of science and music, and his current shows in Ireland and Italy
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Jasia Reichardt – video interview: ‘It’s not really labour … It’s like making a work of art’
Jasia Reichardt discusses the newly published archive catalogue she has collated and curated over 20 years, celebrating Stefan and Franciszka Themerson, a remarkable couple at the centre of one of London’s most interesting intellectual and creative communities
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Donna Huddleston – video interview: ‘I was thinking of all the works being a double for myself’
Huddleston talks about her beguiling new works on paper, for which she draws on her background in theatre to create figures that she sees as performing within the composition
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Cristina Iglesias – video interview: ‘I always felt I wanted to create places, places to be’
The Spanish artist discusses her fascination with geology and botany, how public sculpture assists in the creation of place, and the importance of remaining alive to nature in urban design
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Tunji Adeniyi-Jones – interview: ‘I want to show composure and a confidence. I don’t want these figures to feel they have anything to prove’
Adeniyi-Jones talks about his new paintings in That Which Binds Us, his first solo show at White Cube Bermondsey
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Nneka Uzoigwe – interview: ‘I find plein air painting extraordinary because there’s so much information to capture and there are so many elements’
The artist talks about her residency at Watts Gallery – Artists’ Village responding to the work of Henry Scott Tuke – both his plein air paintings of boys on the beach, but also his interest in mythology
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genuinefake – interview: ‘I use my creative practice to try to start conversations and dialogue about access, our aspirations … and agency’
Along Folkestone’s seafront, the artist genuinefake (AKA Rachel Stella Jenkins) has conjured a temporary geodesic dome of playful community-led investigation around Folkestone’s past and future, on the site of the Rotunda, the former amusement arcade building. Studio International asked her…
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Christopher Houghton Budd – interview: ‘What’s needed here is a high street all the way from the town hall to the lighthouse, without interruption, for pedestrians’
Economist-turned-artist Houghton Budd, who moved to Folkestone seven years ago, has created a most effective artwork to illustrate his point for the 2021 triennial. He talks with Studio International about his journey towards the creation of Forgiving Light, as well…
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Charlotte Keates – interview: ‘I want my paintings to feel more like dreamscapes, that sense of deja-vu’
The artist talks about her series of paintings in the group show Just What Is It …?, at Cristea Roberts Gallery, and how they draw on memories engaging all five senses
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Bring Into Being
Mariam Zulfiqar, the curator of an exhibition of art installations at Chiswick House, says it marks a new chapter for the English Heritage site
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Claire Ashley – interview: ‘I’m not an artist who is scared about the word entertainment’
Ashley makes vast colourful, oddball inflatables. She talks about giving life to these characters, taking up space, and allowing humour and entertainment as access points to her art
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Crystal Fischetti – interview: ‘I use my whole body when I paint’
Crystal Fischetti talks about ‘coming out’ of the spiritual closet, and how she uses her whole body to paint, in a dance-like, yogic manner
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Nick Hornby – interview: ‘Liquefied photography is magical and mysterious’
Nick Hornby talks about his shift from art history to personal histories, and combining analogue and digital processes to create photo-sculptural objects
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Sara Barker – interview: ‘I tackle sculpture from the position of painting and vice versa’
Glasgow-based Sara Barker talks about how the pandemic has affected her practice and her exhibition, undo the knot, currently on show at CAMPLE LINE
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Christina Quarles – interview: ‘These works are holding onto that slow-fast contrast of a physically still world and this mental chaos’
Created during lockdown, against a backdrop of rising deaths from Covid, the police killing of George Floyd and raging fires across California, the nine new paintings in this show at Pilar Corrias are haunted by melancholy. Quarles spoke to Studio…
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Krištof Kintera – interview: ‘Humour helps us to survive’
Unable to install The End of Fun! at Ikon in Birmingham because of Covid-19 travel restrictions, Kintera spoke to Studio International via Zoom from his studio in the Czech Republic
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A personal message: Anita Glesta
Brooklyn-based artist Anita Glesta sends a video message from her temporary studio in upstate New York. “I am reading about, and working on, what it means when a foreign substance … enters the body, and the fragility of being human”
