Video Interviews
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Harold Cohen: ‘I was probably the only person who considered the computer to be potentially an autonomous art-making entity’
Pioneer of computer art Harold Cohen died last year at the age of 87. In 2015, in one of the last interviews of his life, he talked to Studio International about his long career
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Stephen Chambers: The Court of Redonda – Venice Biennale 2017
UK artist Stephen Chambers talks about looking for the extraordinary within the ordinary, about the appeal of fictional kingdoms, the relationship between art and literature, and being led by his instincts to do what he ‘can’t help doing’
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Jesse Jones: Tremble Tremble – Venice Biennale 2017
Gender inequality was one of many human rights issues that artists wrestled with at the 57th Venice Biennale, with one of the most powerful statements coming from the Irish pavilion, in the Arsenale. Here, artist and film-maker Jesse Jones has…
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George Drivas: Laboratory of Dilemmas – Venice Biennale 2017
For the 57th Venice Biennale, Greek artist George Drivas offers his customary blend of architecture and film in a narrative video installation that explores the resonances between an ancient story by Aeschylus, involving a group of women seeking asylum, and…
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Jodie Carey: ‘I like my works to be imbued with a silence and a stillness’
Jodie Carey talks about her developing practice, the impact of motherhood, her concerns with mortality and the fragility of human life, and her redefinition of the monumental
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Tadaaki Kuwayama: ‘Here is only the art itself’
Japanese-born artist Tadaaki Kuwayama recounts his refusal to dictate how spectators should view his work, his visual dialogue with Frank Stella, and the desire to void his art of meaning
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Samson Young: Songs for Disaster Relief – Venice Biennale 2017
Samson Young’s Venice Biennale collateral event for Hong Kong explores the disquieting cocktail of components that comprise the charity single. He talks about the power of music, fake news and what our cultural products say about human nature
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Tom Phillips: ‘I’m still reading books. Nothing changes and everything changes’
Tom Phillips talks about his love of words, the human drive to make marks and the more spiritual side of his work
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Nathaniel Mellors and Erkka Nissinen: The Aalto Natives – Venice Biennale 2017
Mellors and Nissinen represent Finland at this year’s Venice Biennale. They discuss handmade puppets, homemade film sets, creation myths involving eggs, the flimsy narratives on which national identities are built, and whether you have to love something in order to…
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Rachel Maclean: Spite Your Face – Venice Biennale 2017
Rachel Maclean is representing Scotland at the Venice Biennale with her new film, a dark fairytale titled Spite Your Face. She talked to us before the biennale about the film, nationalism, fairytales, and how narratives can be so powerful that…
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Ipek Duben: ‘I’m suggesting, with this project, that we should stop to listen’
Turkish artist Ipek Duben discusses her work THEY/ONLAR, a multiscreen video installation previously seen at SALT, Istanbul, and now showing for the first time in the UK
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James Capper: the making of Six Step
We visited James Capper over the course of four months, first filming him in his London studio where he explained the initial concept for his sculpture Six Step and finally following him to its installation at the Venice Biennale in…
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Sam Cornish: ‘We started with this idea that all works would have to contain repetition, sequence and symmetry’
The co-curator of Kaleidoscope: Colour and Sequence in 1960s British Art discusses how this relatively unsung period in art history was characterised by more than just bright colours and glossy surfaces
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Norman Hyams: ‘I very much believe in losing a painting and finding it’
Norman Hyams talked to Studio International about his painting process before the opening of his first solo show for 10 years, Ethos at The Hannah Barry Gallery in south London
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Saad Qureshi: ‘You can’t really pick your medium. Your medium picks you’
Saad Qureshi talks about his seduction by charcoal, his fear of being exposed, and his creation of mindscapes from his own and others’ memories
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Oliver Beer – interview: ‘We are very fortunate to live in a time when there is complete fluidity between mediums’
Oliver Beer uses sound, film and sculpture to explore the physical properties and emotional value of objects and places. We interview the artist as two new solo exhibitions open in the UK
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When the Heavens Meet the Earth
Showcasing works from Robert Devereux’s Sina Jina African art collection, this small but dense exhibition reveals the breadth and quality of artistic output from the world’s second largest continent
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Yuko Mohri: ‘I’m very curious about organic ecosystems’
The Japanese artist Yuko Mohri’s exhibition at White Rainbow is titled Moré Moré [Leaky], and follows recent exhibitions in Taiwan, Japan and the US. Winner of the 2015 Grand Prix Nissan Art Award, Mohri undertook two residencies in London in…
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Candida Powell-Williams: ‘Each object becomes more than just the narrative – it becomes this opportunity to interact’
The artist shows us round her immersive installation, exploring the fetishism of anthropological objects
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Kong Ning: ‘Being a witness mentally scarred me’
Multidisciplinary artist and environmental activist Kong Ning is based in Beijing. Born in Heilongjiang province in 1958, she studied law, but, deeply disturbed by the inequities of China’s judicial system and a fierce opponent of the death penalty, she decided…
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George Ridgway: interview
George Ridgway graduated last year from the Glasgow School of Art. His work traverses painting and installation with an intuitive ease as he subtly translates music, movement and the forces of the natural world into paint
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Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2016
Since 1949 New Contemporaries has hand-picked graduate and emerging artists to present them to the public as the rising stars of the art world. Studio International visited the touring exhibition on its opening night at the Institute of Contemporary Arts…
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Kate Fahey: interview
Kate Fahey is concerned with slowing down how we interact with images. In the age of Google, where our consumption of the visual divorces us from context and meaning, Fahey seeks to reappropriate photographs that have become lost or degraded…
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Seungjo Jeong: interview
South Korean artist Seungjo Jeong creates pared-back canvases that explore the relationship between viewer and artist through the almost abstract evocation of objects
