Interviews

Linder: A Kind of Glamour And Danger – Interview Anna Goodman

Linder—first weaponised scissors and glue in the mid-1970s, hacking through women’s magazines and softcore pornography to create photomontages…

16 June 2025

Interview With Maggie Tsai Director Fubon Art Museum Taipei – Virginie Puertolas-Syn

While visiting Taipei a few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to sit down with Maggie Tsai, Director of the Fubon Art Museum

12 May 2025

Suzanne Treister: Interview of the Month, April 2025 – Paul Carey-Kent

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

Ryan Mosley: Interview of the Month, February 2025 – Paul Carey-Kent

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: Interview of the Month, January 2025 – Paul Carey-Kent

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

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

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

Michael Petry Discusses In League With Devils with Revd Jonathan Evens

Michael Petry is interviewed by Jonathan Evens about his upcoming ‘In League with Devils’ exhibition.

8 July 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

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

Features, Interviews, Photo Feature

Wallace Chan in Venice Interview – James Payne

I sat down with Wallace Chan to ask him about his latest exhibition. Like his works, his answers are sometimes curious and enigmatic but always reflect Chan’s insatiable curiosity and generosity of spirit.

29 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

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

Nicholas Cullinan Visionary Director of The National Portrait Gallery Speaks To Nico Kos Earle – Artlyst Exclusive

Since 2020, Nicholas Cullinan has overseen an acclaimed £41.3m renovation, which reopened on time and on budget, no mean feat…. Read More

8 January 2024

Interviews, People

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

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

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

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

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

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

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