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
Interviews
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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