Tamar Mason: Interview of the Month, December 2024 – Paul Carey-Kent
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
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Michelangelo Pistoletto: Interview of the Month, November 2024 – Paul Carey-Kent
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
Tracey Emin: Interview of the Month, October 2024 – Paul Carey-Kent
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: Interview of the Month, September 2024 – Paul Carey-Kent
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
Francis Alÿs: Interview of the Month, August 2024 – Paul Carey-Kent
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
Nil Yalter: Interview of the Month, July 2024 – Paul Carey-Kent
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: Interview of the Month June 2024 – Paul Carey-Kent
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
Amsterdam Art Week 2024 – Paul Carey Kent
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 And Beyond E. Sussex Round Up Spring 2024 – Paul Carey Kent
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
Trish Morrissey: Interview of the Month, May 2024 – Paul Carey-Kent
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
Darren Almond: Interview of the Month April 2024 – Paul Carey-Kent
For thirty years, Darren Almond has explored the nature of time through several distinct yet mutually reinforcing streams of work.
2 April 2024
Shuvinai Ashoona: Interview of the Month March 2024 – Paul Carey-Kent
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: Interview of the Month February 2024 – Paul Carey-Kent
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
Roland Hicks: Interview of the Month, January 2024 – Paul Carey-Kent
In recent years Roland Hicks has used gouache, paper and coloured pencil to refashion and scrupulously reproduce the texture of plywood
8 January 2024
Paulina Olowska: Interview of the Month December 2023 – Paul Carey-Kent
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: Interview of the Month November 2023 – Paul Carey-Kent
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
Shirin Neshat: Interview of the Month, October 2023 – Paul Carey-Kent
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: Interview of the Month, September 2023 – Paul Carey-Kent
William Cobbing has three shows opening in September: he’s in the group shows ‘After the Performance’
18 September 2023
Nick Hornby: Interview of the Month, August 2023 – Paul Carey-Kent
You will soon be able to follow a London trail of three major public sculptures made by Nick Hornby.
1 August 2023
Mark Godfrey on Alighiero Boetti: Interview of the Month, July 2023 – Paul Carey-Kent
Anyone wanting to understand the innovative art of the Italian conceptualist Alighiero Boetti (1940-94) should head to Ben Brown Fine Arts / Claridge’s ArtSpace
4 July 2023
Callum Innes: Interview of the Month June 2023 – Paul Carey-Kent
Over the past four decades, Callum Innes has worked in series, creating luminous abstractions which expose the fundamentals of painting…
29 May 2023
Sabine Moritz: Interview of the Month May 2023 – Paul Carey-Kent
Sabine Moritz was born in East Germany in 1969: her family managed to move west in 1985, but her early work often took its subjects from recollections of the Soviet era…
7 May 2023
Carey Young: Interview of the Month, April 2023 – Paul Carey-Kent
Carey Young explores systems of power and gender equality in her solo show at Modern Art Oxford.
5 April 2023
Haroon Mirza: Interview of the Month, March 2023 – Paul Carey-Kent
Haroon Mirza’s exhibition of new work consists of installations that play ingeniously between sound, light and electric current
9 March 2023
Jonathan Baldock: Interview of the Month, February 2023 – Paul Carey-Kent
Jonathan Baldock works across sculpture, installation and performance. He has a way with unexpected faces – as in his long-running series of ceramic masks
30 January 2023
Jonny Briggs: Interview of the Month, January 2023 – Paul Carey-Kent
Jonny Briggs combines photography, performance, and sculpture to explore issues around childhood and identity.
2 January 2023
Richard Schur: Interview of the Month, December 2022 – Paul Carey-Kent
For two decades the Munich-based painter Richard Schur made rectangular compositions taking the grid to new levels of looseness and complexity.
10 December 2022
Romuald Hazoumè: Interview of the Month, November 2022 – Paul Carey-Kent
Beninese artist Romuald Hazoumè has been making his well-known masks for many years, but ‘Carnaval’, his show at the October Gallery
5 November 2022
Wolfgang Laib: Interview of the Month, September 2022 – Paul Carey-Kent
Wolfgang Laib is an unusual artist: infused with the natural world and Eastern philosophies, he has made consistent and relatively unchanging use of his favoured materials for fifty years
22 September 2022
Charmaine Watkiss: Interview of the Month August 2022 – Paul Carey-Kent
Charmaine Watkiss is the daughter of Jamaicans who came to post-war Britain in the 1960s when immigration from former colonies was encouraged to help with the significant labour shortage.
1 August 2022
Mali Morris: Interview of the Month, July 2022 – Paul Carey-Kent
Mali Morris is a popular and notably active member of the Royal Academy of Arts, making her an appropriate choice for the annual commission to make flags over Bond Street.
28 June 2022
Peter Buggenhout: Interview of the Month, June 2022 – Paul Carey-Kent
Belgian sculptor Peter Buggenhout makes slippery, near-formless sculptures that typically repulse with their abject materials, yet draw you in to an uncanny unknowability.
11 June 2022