Video Interviews
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Mary Griffiths – interview: ‘I extrapolate a drawing that has some resonance with part of the structure I’ve been looking at’
In Protest and Remembrance at Alan Cristea, with her large abstract works of plywood, acrylic gesso and graphite, Griffiths aims to capture the splendour of the working-class engineering at a former colliery
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Joy Gerrard – interview: ‘I’m interested in how we witness and interpret these events’
In her depictions of mass protests, Gerrard aims to make visible those who attend. For Protest and Remembrance at Alan Cristea, she focuses on anti-Trump and anti-Brexit marches
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Miriam de Búrca – interview: ‘The sites themselves are very charged: very beautiful but also very tragic’
With her detailed drawings of plants growing on the graves of Ireland’s excommunicates and other unblessed souls, De Búrca, now on show in Protest and Remembrance at Alan Cristea, hopes to restore the dignity of those the Catholic church abandoned
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Phoebe Boswell – interview: ‘Grief is not a personal thing. It’s a human condition’
Boswell’s latest exhibition, The Space Between Things, which includes a video of her undergoing an eye operation, uses art as a way to connect with others whose wounds may otherwise remain unseen
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Imre Bak – interview: ‘In today’s language, we need to achieve some kind of balance between the local and the global’
The neo-avant-gardist recalls cold war isolation, his enduring commitment to geometric abstraction, and the importance of maintaining Hungarian traditions in his art
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Joseph Hillier – video interview: ‘Figurative sculpture in a public space presents a real opportunity to stir something in people’
Sculptor Joseph Hillier talks about his most ambitious project to date, its design, and what it takes to construct a bronze that weighs 9.5 tonnes
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Anna Boghiguian, interview, Artes Mundi 8
Anna Boghiguian talks about her travels and research for A Meteor Fell from the Sky, the founding of India’s first steel business, Tata Steel, and how this material is currently being manipulated by assorted superpowers to influence global economies and…
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Otobong Nkanga, interview, Artes Mundi 8
Otobong Nkanga talks about her inspirations for the works on show at Artes Mundi 8, and her enduring preoccupations with the reciprocity or interconnectedness of emotion and action around the world
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Magdalena Abakanowicz: Presence, Essence, Identity
Magdalena Mielnicka, an expert on Abakanowicz, talks about the irrepressible Polish artist’s extraordinary life and her uncanny sculptures, currently on show at Stara Kopalnia Science and Art Centre, Wałbrzych
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Billy Apple interview: The Artist Has to Live Like Everybody Else 1961–2018
Billy Apple is not just an artist – he’s a trademarked brand. He talks about exchanging his art for a knee operation and his new exhibition at the Mayor Gallery, London
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Dan Graham on Rock’n’Roll
As Dan Graham’s new show opens at the Lisson Gallery in London, he talks about his early days as a New York gallerist, his love of music and why he doesn’t believe his famous pavilions are important
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The Old Stile Press
Nicolas and Frances McDowall started the Old Stile Press almost 40 years ago. They talk to Studio International about the many and varied books they have produced in that time
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Ian Davenport: Colourscapes
The artist discusses works done over the past year, now at Waddington Custot, London, as well as the three decades of his work on show at Dallas Contemporary
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Patricia Guzman, interview
Intersection: International Art and Culture Arthur M Sackler Museum of Art and Archaeology at Peking University, Beijing 27 May – 27 August 2018
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E.V. Day, interview
In a riveting, large-scale work called Moss Ball: A Meditation on the Overview Effect (2018), E.V. Day makes some unlikely, and therefore all the more intriguing, connections
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Tai Xiangzhou, interview
Intersection: International Art and Culture Arthur M Sackler Museum of Art and Archaeology at Peking University, Beijing 27 May – 27 August 2018
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Mark Fox, interview
Mark Fox, who was brought up as a Catholic, has issues with certain of the religion’s doctrines and belief systems, in what he calls a “love/hate response”
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Frieder Nake, interview
Intersection: International Art and Culture Arthur M Sackler Museum of Art and Archaeology at Peking University, Beijing 27 May – 27 August 2018
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Bao Pei, interview
Intersection: International Art and Culture Arthur M Sackler Museum of Art and Archaeology at Peking University, Beijing 27 May – 27 August 2018
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Teresa Lawton: Tipping the Balance
Lawton’s paintings are inspired by her love of Dorset, where she explore the shapes and colours of the landscape, always in awe, she says ‘of the silence and mystery of nature’
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Joana Vasconcelos: I’m Your Mirror
Joana Vasconcelos has filled the Guggenheim Bilbao with work from the past 20 years. She talks about craft, the importance (or otherwise) of scale, and how she seeks to expose and explode the myths and realities around female experience
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True Colours: Helen Beard, Sadie Laska and Boo Saville
True Colours, curated by Damien Hirst for his Newport Street Gallery in London, shows works by Helen Beard, Sadie Laska and Boo Saville. We talked to the three artists about the works they have in the show
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Boo Saville: interview
Boo Saville’s fields of colour shimmer, each massive painting drawing you in and, once you are up close, their surfaces seem to conjure immersive spaces, as though the air has suddenly been coloured and there is space to fall in.…
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Sadie Laska: interview
New York-based Sadie Laska, who is both a painter and a drummer, brings her improvisation skills into her wall-based works, using collage, small objects and brushed colour in flight. Each work embraces the tactility of materials and the motion of…
