Interviews Archives

Martin O’Brien On Durational Performance Interview By Dominic Johnson

Martin O’Brien talks to art historian & writer Dominic Johnson ahead of Fading Out Of Dead Air – Transmissions for the Necropolis 14 December Whitechapel Gallery

2 December 2023

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Sean Scully A Humility Towards Nature – Interview Rev Jonathan Evens

Sean Scully talks to Rev Jonathan Evens about his art, the creative process and nature.

30 April 2023

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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

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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

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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

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Winslow Homer: American Passage An Interview With Biographer Bill Cross

The author of the biography Winslow Homer: American Passage, Bill Cross, is an independent scholar and a consultant to art and history museums.

4 December 2022

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Andres Serrano: Talks About Free Speech And NFTs – Artlyst Interview

Serrano’s photograph, Piss Christ (1987), became the subject of a US national debate on freedom of artistic expression.

29 November 2022

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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

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Spencer Tunick: The Naked Facts – Artlyst Interview With Paul Carter Robinson

The work of artist Spencer Tunick defies genres by transforming both landscapes and the human form into powerful artworks.

30 August 2022

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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

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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

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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

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Andrew Marr Talks Painting Not Politics With Ria Higgins

Away from the political battles of Westminster, Britain’s most famous interrogator has a passion not many people know about… painting. With his latest exhibition in London, he talks to Ria Higgins about where it all started and why he refuses to be known for only one thing.

4 May 2022

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Martin Parr: Interview of the Month May 2022 – Paul Carey-Kent

Martin Parr is famous worldwide for over 50 years of intensely colourful and wittily affectionate photographic observations of people.

3 May 2022

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David Nash: Interview of the Month April 2022 – Paul Carey-Kent

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

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Marilyn Stafford Beyond A Jobbing Photographer – Claudia Barbieri Childs

BRIGHTON: Marilyn Stafford thought of herself as a jobbing photographer; she had a living to earn as a single mother.

7 March 2022

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Rana Begum: Artist Interview of the Month March 2022 – Paul Carey-Kent

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

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Allison Katz: Interview of the Month February 2022 – Paul Carey-Kent

London-based Canadian Allison Katz relishes the second of those options at Camden Art Centre

1 February 2022

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Artist Orlanda Broom In Conversation With Simon Tarrant

Broom’s main painting practice takes two distinct forms: lush, exotic landscapes and abstract pieces

13 January 2022

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Jyll Bradley: Interview of the Month January 2022 – Paul Carey-Kent

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

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Sarah Maple In Conversation With Oliver Malin – An Artlyst Audio Exclusive

Interview with Artist Sarah Maple: Thankfully this interview series isn’t expected to run with the regularity of the schedule of the Japanese bullet train between Tokyo and Hakata

28 December 2021

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