Video Interviews
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Steven Claydon: interview, Art Sheffield 2016
Steven Claydon’s newly commissioned Infra-idol Assembly is set within the vast, bunker-like, top-floor space of the Moore Street substation, designed by Jefferson Sheard and constructed in the 60s, when it was thought that Sheffield’s industrial star was still on the…
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Beatrice Gibson: interview, Art Sheffield 2016
London-based artist Beatrice Gibson’s film F for Fibonacci, at Bloc Projects, evokes the chaos of contemporary capitalist economics via a child’s Minecraft fantasy, contrasting the simplicity of the child’s-eye view with the grotesque and sometimes surreal aspirations and machinations of…
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Mark Fell: interview, Art Sheffield 2016
Mark Fell’s Structural Solutions to the Question of Being is being exhibited at The Link pub on the Park Hill housing estate. Fell, who describes himself as a “Rotherham-based music producer and artist”, brings a wealth of local knowledge to…
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Martin Clark: interview, Art Sheffield 2016
Martin Clark, the director of Bergen Kunsthall, Norway, has created Art Sheffield 2016: Up, Down, Top, Bottom, Strange and Charm, entirely around sound and video art.
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Art Sheffield 2016: Up, Down, Top, Bottom, Strange and Charm
For this citywide event, curator Martin Clark aims to inspire a connection between different parts of Sheffield in an event that revolves entirely around sound and video art. Studio International spoke to him and some of the artists involved
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Random International: ‘There is a real collective power in this group of people’
Hannes Koch of Random International talks about the collective’s latest project, producing a kinetic artwork consisting of 15 points of light, recognisable almost instantaneously as the human form
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Bernard Jacobson: ‘I want to bring people back to art’
The art dealer talks about his current exhibition, Bonheur de Vivre, which he considers ‘a precis of 20th-century beauty’, a return to art that focuses on passion, joy, happiness, light and colour
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Terry Setch: ‘I regarded the beach as a playground – somewhere you can behave irreverently’
The artist explains his practice, recalling memories of the beach at Penarth and his desire to extend the surface of his paintings. We spoke to Setch at Flowers Cork Street, at the opening of his exhibition, Reduced to Rubble
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Three Generations: Passing on the Eyton drive
As they prepare for their first exhibition showing together as a family, Anthony Eyton RA and his sculptor daughter Jane reflect on the enduring influence of Anthony’s mother Phyllis, a painter, who died in a riding accident when he was…
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Colin Self – interview: ‘I want to be devoid of the art world and paddle my own canoe’
On the occasion of his exhibition at London’s Mayor Gallery, the most singular of British pop artists talks about the rough and tumble of postwar London and Norfolk, class consciousness at the Slade, Hockney’s admiration of his work, and his…
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Lin Tianmiao – interview: ‘Thread winding taught me to be patient’
Incorporating weaving, sewing and embroidery into her fine art practice, the multidisciplinary artist transforms ordinary objects made from commonplace materials into something rare, evocative and universal. Here, she talks about her work
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Conrad Shawcross: ‘It looks like a wonder of the world’
Conrad Shawcross talks to Studio International about his new public sculpture, Paradigm, and shows us round his studio and the fabricator as the final pieces are being put together.
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Anthony Engi Meacock: ‘Bringing creative practice out of the art bubble and into a wider context is a really interesting thing’
The founder member of Assemble, which last year became the first architectural practice to win the Turner Prize, talks about the group’s work and ethos, and the benefits of combining the artist’s qualities of curiosity and openness with an architectural…
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Andy Warhol: Works from the Hall Collection
“Andy took the world as it was and, in his own way, described it with amazing accuracy,” says curator Norman Rosenthal, who talks about trying “to tell a story through the pack of cards that is the [Hall] collection”. Studio…
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Collateral Drawing: ‘It’s like revealing the magic trick’
Co-curators and artists from the ongoing Collateral Drawing project reveal insights into their working processes and how exhibiting by products of their creation changes the way they think about their own practices
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Rose English: ‘Improvisation is present always, making anything’
The artist talks about her collaboration with composer Luke Stoneham and a troupe of Chinese acrobats, for her evolving work, now on show as A Premonition of the Act at Camden Arts Centre in London
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An artist who is changing sculpture: Katrina Palmer
Lisa Le Feuvre, the head of sculpture studies at the Henry Moore Institute, tells the fascinating tale of London’s Necropolitan Railway, the inspiration for Katrina Palmer’s sculptural installation, which takes visitors on a one-way journey
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Paul Huxley: ‘I have more fun making sculpture than making paintings, but I’ve made paintings all my life’
The artist talks about his career, from visiting Robert Motherwell and Lee Krasner in New York in the 1960s, to his wall drawings for the Azerbaijan pavilion at the 2015 Venice Biennale, to his new work for a forthcoming show…
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Amelia Critchlow & Evy Jokhova: ‘The conversation, in many ways, will probably continue perpetually’
The artists talk about their year-long collaboration and how they learned from each other’s different working styles, while also pushing their own practices to the limits
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Elisabeth Frink: The Presence of Sculpture
Focusing, for the first time, on the challenges of making work, on the one hand privately and, on the other, on commission for outdoor public display, this exhibition brings together more than 70 of Elisabeth Frink’s sculptures, plasters and drawings,…
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Liu Ye: ‘Dick Bruna is more important to me than Da Vinci’
The Beijing-based artist on how seeing Bruna’s Miffy was seeing himself in a mirror, and why the most important thing about a painting is that it requires the viewer to spend a lot of time looking at it
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Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa: ‘I just create works that give a sensation of something’
The artist talks about his current exhibition, God’s Reptilian Finger, and the inspiration he drew from Guatemalan history, YouTube videos, The Book of Mormon and conspiracy theories
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Alice Cunningham: ‘The quarries were my biggest inspiration’
The artist talks about her experience of learning to work with marble from Michelangelo’s preferred quarry and her determination to remain sensitive to the form and the surface as a whole
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Zhan Wang – studio tour
The Beijing-based artist showed Studio International around his studio
