Tony Cragg: Interview of the Month, December 2025 – Paul Carey-Kent
Lisson is presenting a solo exhibition of new sculptures by Tony Cragg. The exhibition brings together a selection of animated and gestural configurations…
1 December 2025
Lisson is presenting a solo exhibition of new sculptures by Tony Cragg. The exhibition brings together a selection of animated and gestural configurations…
1 December 2025
Over the past four decades, Spanish artist Cristina Iglesias has developed a sculptural vocabulary, creating immersive and experiential environments that engineer nature…
11 November 2025
There are plenty of impressive shows timed to coincide with Frieze[i]. Still, I haven’t seen Eric Butcher featured in highlights lists…
18 October 2025
Lugano, beautifully set alongside a mountain-ringed lake, has been part of Switzerland since 1513. However, the town is close to the Italian border…
4 October 2025
Seventeen is well worth a visit on its twentieth anniversary, as you can see both a celebratory group show with many of the gallery’s artists, and Bex Massey’s solo exhibition…
14 September 2025
For two decades, Emma Critchley’s subject has been the underwater world: she describes herself as ‘an artist who uses a combination of photography, film, sound and installation to continually explore the human relationship…
4 August 2025
It’s well worth visiting The Box in Plymouth for a remarkably comprehensive and superbly orchestrated retrospective covering more than forty years of Jyll Bradley’s practice…
4 July 2025
London-based German artist Nicole Wermers was Turner Prize-nominated in 2015 and features in the current Tate Britain hang. Her show ‘Tails & Fainters’, at Herald St….
10 June 2025
There are seventy art spaces and over a hundred events listed as part of Amsterdam’s Art Week (20-25 May), including the open studios, which I have chosen below.
25 May 2025
Richard Wright, who won the Turner Prize in 2009, is known primarily for his site-responsive, and usually temporary, ceiling and wall-based paintings…
7 May 2025
Ahead of a major autumn survey at Modern Art Oxford, Suzanne Treister is showing a new series of works, Hexen 5.0, together with a selection of her visionary Museum paintings at Annely Juda in London….
9 April 2025
Citra Sasmita grew up in the traditional Balinese Hindu culture. That flows into how her first UK solo show, ‘Into Eternal Land’, is not just visually compelling but has plenty behind how it looks….
9 March 2025
I spoke to Sheffield-based painter Ryan Mosley in his new show ‘Heavy is the Mountain’ at Josh Lilley: twenty-odd works full of figures…
22 January 2025
Daniel Silver populates Frith Street gallery with ten sculptural figures that place bronze heads atop blocks of marble. Ranged around like totems…
4 January 2025
I talked to Tamar Mason at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, surrounded by her first UK solo show. In what looks initially like paintings…
1 December 2024
At 91, Michelangelo Pistoletto has been making his signature Mirror Paintings for over sixty years. Yet he is still looking for new directions for them…
26 October 2024
Diagnosed with cancer during the 2020 lockdown, Tracey Emin underwent radical surgery for bladder cancer. That hasn’t stopped her returning to art…
1 October 2024
Bharti Kher believes growing up as a young Indian person in an English suburb in the 1970s and 80s gave her a sense of being different…
9 September 2024
The Barbican is currently presenting some forty of Francis Alÿs’s films of children’s games, alongside his paintings and other related material.
17 August 2024
At 86, Nil Yalter is a star of this year’s Venice Biennale, where she is showing ‘Topak Ev’ and has been awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement.
6 July 2024
Permindar Kaur’s thirty-year career survey at the John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, is titled ‘Nothing is Fixed’. As that suggests, her work maintains ambiguity…
15 June 2024
The 12th Amsterdam Art Week officially ran 29 May – 2 June, but most of its shows carry on longer – in 70-odd galleries
3 June 2024
St Leonards – the town I grew up in – has become a fashionable place, a trend accelerated by the pandemic. Consistent with that is a flourishing art scene…
21 May 2024
Irish artist Trish Morrissey combines archival research and her biography to develop and play real and fictional characters, exploring women’s roles, the family and the body.
30 April 2024
For thirty years, Darren Almond has explored the nature of time through several distinct yet mutually reinforcing streams of work.
2 April 2024
The Perimeter is showing the work of Shuvinai Ashoona (born 1961), who lives in Kinngait (formerly known as Cape Dorset) in Nunavut, the largest and northernmost territory of Canada.
29 February 2024
Emma Cousin’s show ‘Tunnel Vision’ is the first in Niru Ratnam’s new space in Fitzrovia. The vibrant paintings were made either side of her giving birth…
2 February 2024
In recent years Roland Hicks has used gouache, paper and coloured pencil to refashion and scrupulously reproduce the texture of plywood
8 January 2024
Multi-media artist Paulina Olowska has said that what fascinates her the most is ‘the non-linear history hidden beneath the surface’ and that growing up in the 1980’s
11 December 2023
Ghislaine Leung is one of the four artists nominated for this year’s Turner Prize, the winner of which will be announced on 5 December.
11 November 2023
I talked to New York based Iranian artist Shirin Neshat in her current show at Goodman Gallery, which presents an immersive video installation
28 October 2023
William Cobbing has three shows opening in September: he’s in the group shows ‘After the Performance’
18 September 2023