Video Interviews
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Helen Beard: interview
Helen Beard’s striking and marvellously simplified, flat colour images, take you by surprise in a number of ways. The fresh colour forms pack a satisfying punch even before the viewer has undergone the gradual realisation that the paintings portray a…
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James Edgar and Sam Walker: ‘We think of Assembly Point as part of our collaborative practice’
James Edgar and Sam Walker talk about Assembly Point, their co-founded gallery, studio space and publishing company, which they set up in 2015 in south London
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Vera Molnár: ‘I have no regrets. My life is squares, triangles, lines’
The pioneer of computer-assisted art recounts her love affair with lines, the balancing of order and chaos, and preparing to be surprised
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David Shrigley: ‘The quality of the work for me is about avoiding contrivance’
David Shrigley talks about his large-scale installation Life Model II at Fabrica Gallery in Brighton, part of the Brighton Festival for which he is this year’s guest director
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Miguel Chevalier: ‘I feel that I live in what’s happening today’
Ahead of two simultaneous solo shows in London, pioneering computer artist Miguel Chevalier invited Studio International into his Paris studio to discuss his interest in making the real virtual and the virtual real
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Michele Oka Doner: ‘We can’t repair the Earth if we don’t fall in love with it’
American artist and author Michele Oka Doner shares some of her explorations of nature and ritual from across her five decade-long practice
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Langlands & Bell – video interview: ‘We like to be catapulted into the unknown; we like a challenge’
For their new show at Birmingham’s Ikon gallery, Langlands & Bell have turned their shared gaze on to the giants of the technological age – among them Google, Amazon, Alibaba and Facebook – and the structures they have created as…
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Alexandra Kokoli and Basia Śliwińska: ‘As long as ‘home’ remains confining … it will continue to loom large in art practices informed and committed to feminism’
Curators Kokoli and Śliwińska and artists Małgorzata Markiewicz and Su Richardson talk about the exhibition Home Strike at I’étrangère in London
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Su Richardson: interview
Su Richardson talks about her crocheted works, made in the 1970s, and also more recently constructed body parts “indicating bitter fantasies”
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Małgorzata Markiewicz: interview
Krakow-based artist Małgorzata Markiewicz talks about her video The Resistance Kitchen (2017), responding to the policies from the current rightwing Polish government that violate women’s rights
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Sophie Herxheimer: ‘I’m after precision in poetry … I’m after exactly what it was I heard … the kernel of what the voice said to me’
The poet, writer and image-maker talks about the ideas and inspiration that inform her work
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Jason Brooks: ‘In a world that wants to eradicate detail by airbrushing it out, I’m interested in airbrushing it in’
Ahead of his exhibition at Marlborough, London, Jason Brooks showed Studio International around his Gloucestershire studio, revealing some of his inspirations and motivations
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Edmund Clark: ‘The intervention, the control, the censorship is part of what I do’
Edmund Clark discusses his recent residency at the UK’s only wholly therapeutic prison, HMP Grendon; his time spent on Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan; and how intervention and censorship have become a part of his work
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Ania Dabrowska: ‘By the retelling of archival stories we have the power to articulate new ideas of how we want to formulate our own identities’
Ania Dabrowska (b1973) is a Polish-born artist now living in London. She works with photography, moving image, installation, text and sound, and has a particular interest in the political and creative potency of archives within contemporary culture. She has had…
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Maria Alyokhina: ‘The government media calls us enemies of the people … but I haven’t met anyone on the street who hates us’
Political activist and Pussy Riot member Maria Alyokhina talks to Studio International at the Saatchi Gallery about fighting government propaganda and the support the group receives from fellow artists
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Zarah Hussain: ‘I don’t think something that’s spiritual precludes the use of technology’
Zarah Hussain (b1980, Cheshire, UK) places her work at “the intersection of science and spirituality”. She combines a lifelong fascination with – and extensive training in – hand-drawn Islamic geometry with the latest digital software to create hypnotic, looping animations…
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Nicolás Herrera: Enchanted Nature – Deforestation and the Environment
Enchanted Nature: Deforestation and the Environment, on show in Beijing, is an exhibition of 61 drawings and 12 large-scale paintings by Latin-American artist Nicolás Herrera
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James Richards: Music for the gift – Wales in Venice, 2017
Wales has always punched above its weight at the Biennale, and 2017 is no exception. This year – for its eighth successive appearance – the selected artist is James Richards, a multimedia artist whose work combines layers or fragments of…
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José Pedro Croft: Uncertain Measure – Venice Biennale 2017
For his Portugal Venice Biennale commission, artist José Pedro Croft has made a series of six glass-and-steel sculptures that lurch and loom around the gardens of Villa Hériot, on the Giudecca. He talks about the uniquely Venetian dialogue between precariousness…
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Jonathan Wright: Fleet on Foot
Local artist Jonathan Wright delved deep into local narratives to devise his tribute to the local fishing community, Fleet on Foot. Studio International discusses the origins of this celebration of the town’s remaining fishing fleet
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Emily Peasgood: Halfway to Heaven
Emily Peasgood’s sound piece Halfway to Heaven is set in a Baptist graveyard, a high hump of soil, weeds and tumbling headstones wedged between a road and a terrace of houses. Studio International talked to her about its inspiration and…
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Studio Ben Allen: The Clearing
On the first floor cafe/bar of Folkestone’s Quarterhouse, a performance venue for music, theatre, dance and comedy, architect Ben Allen has created an ornate gothic pavilion as a “visitor centre” for the triennial. The Clearing was inspired by a request…
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Maryam Najd: ‘I became interested in reaching a certain perfectionism in how you use paint’
Iranian-born artist Maryam Najd talks about identity and culture in her practice, her love of materials and her Non Existence Flag Project, which was due to be exhibited in Beijing this autumn, until the Chinese Ministry of Education banned the…
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Simon Patterson: ‘It’s about you filling in the gaps … the viewer completes the work and keeps changing it’
Simon Patterson talks about his show Safari: An Exhibition as Expedition, at the De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill-on-Sea, and about the concepts that inform his work
