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
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
You will soon be able to follow a London trail of three major public sculptures made by Nick Hornby.
1 August 2023
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
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 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 explores systems of power and gender equality in her solo show at Modern Art Oxford.
5 April 2023
Haroon Mirza’s exhibition of new work consists of installations that play ingeniously between sound, light and electric current
9 March 2023
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 combines photography, performance, and sculpture to explore issues around childhood and identity.
2 January 2023
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
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 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 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 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
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
Art Brussels sprouts back to life after two years missed for Covid, from 28 April – 1 May.
8 May 2022
Martin Parr is famous worldwide for over 50 years of intensely colourful and wittily affectionate photographic observations of people.
3 May 2022
Forty years ago, David Nash was the first artist to make work on-site for Yorkshire Sculpture Park –invited by the founding director Peter Murray, who has only just retired.
2 April 2022
Rana Begum brings her viewers into an interactive world of colour, light and form. Initially, her geometric language could be traced back to cityscapes meeting the patterns of Islamic architecture from her early childhood in Bangladesh.
1 March 2022
London-based Canadian Allison Katz relishes the second of those options at Camden Art Centre
1 February 2022
Pardes, the new commission by Jyll Bradley for the Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh, is not just a sculptural installation but the creation of an inclusive space for public interaction
3 January 2022
The German painter Magnus Plessen tends to paint in thematic groups: in 2016, he showed his ‘1914-1918’ series in London
23 November 2021
One can distinguish no fewer than seven diverse yet thematically linked streams of work in Tania Kovats’ show ‘Oceanic’ (at Parafin to 20 November).
26 October 2021
Welcome to this new series of monthly artist interviews by critic Paul Carey-Kent. Paul has written for Art Monthly and Frieze Magazine
26 October 2021
Ibrahim Mahama came to international attention for his monumental installation of jute sacks at the Venice Biennale in 2015
28 September 2021