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
Interviews
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Homage To Wayne Thiebaud – In Conversation With Colin Smith
I had the good fortune to meet Wayne Thiebaud in Sacramento, California. We spent a day together and I was impressed with his kindness and modesty.
28 December 2021
Harmony Hammond: Women In Abstraction Guggenheim Bilbao – Artlyst Interview
Artist/activist Harmony Hammond was born in Chicago in 1944 and is associated with the feminist art movement in New York during the 1970s.
2 December 2021
Magnus Plessen: Artist Interview of the Month December 2021 – Paul Carey-Kent
The German painter Magnus Plessen tends to paint in thematic groups: in 2016, he showed his ‘1914-1918’ series in London
23 November 2021
Tania Kovats: Artist Interview of the Month November 2021 – Paul Carey-Kent
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
Paul Carey Kent: Artist Interview Of The Month Index – Artlyst
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
Mr Brainwash Loves London But Is It Mutual? – Conversation With Oliver Malin
Mr Brainwash (Thierry Guetta) a cross between a Beaver and John Belushi in conversation with Oliver Malin ahead of his London show.
10 October 2021
Sidney Nolan’s Africa Interview With Andrew Turley And Revd Jonathan Evens
Nolan’s Africa will be the first book on Sidney Nolan written with access to the newly opened Sidney Nolan archives
3 October 2021
Ibrahim Mahama: Interview of the Month, October 2021 – Paul Carey-Kent
Ibrahim Mahama came to international attention for his monumental installation of jute sacks at the Venice Biennale in 2015
28 September 2021
Rosie Gibbens: Interview of the Month August 2021 – Paul Carey-Kent
The entertaining and thought-provoking solo exhibition, ‘Soft Girls’, by Rosie Gibbens, is at the Zabludowicz Collection, London, until 15 August.
1 August 2021
Spencer Finch: Interview of the Month July 2021 – Paul Carey-Kent
In his current exhibition at Lisson Gallery (‘Only the hand that erases writes the true thing’, to 31 July), Spencer Finch presents new works
14 July 2021
Ena Swansea: Interview of the Month June 2021 – Paul Carey-Kent
There’s an aura of mystery to Ena Swansea’s big, impressive paintings at Ben Brown Fine Arts (‘green light’ to 30 July)
28 June 2021
Louis Carreon: Sampling Art History – Interview Revd Jonathan Evens
With a background in tagging, rapping, skateboarding and surfing, Californian-born Louis Carreon is a street artist who is currently sampling art history,
24 May 2021
Artist Anka Dabrowska Discusses New Margate Project With James Payne
Anka Dabrowska, a Warsaw born queer woman artist living and working in London, spoke to Artlyst on the eve of an exciting new project in the seaside town of Margate.
13 April 2021
Modus Operandi What Makes Successful Public Art: Vivien Lovell Interviewed By Revd Jonathan Evens
Founded in 1999, Modus Operandi, an independent arts unit with a track record of curating and producing high-quality art in the public realm, recently celebrated its 21st birthday.
10 April 2021
Venice Curator Luca Berta Explains Latest Biennale Private Venue Restrictions – Interview
In light of the changes introduced by Venice town council, it is becoming increasingly difficult for private exhibition spaces
10 April 2021
Stuart Semple Talks To Artlyst Candidly About His New Art Gallery
Stuart Semple multiple disciplinary artist talks to Artlyst candidly about his new art gallery ‘Giant’ in Bournemouth
14 March 2021
Genesis Tramaine: A Queer Devotional Painter Interview – Revd Jonathan Evens
Genesis Tramaine is an Expressionist Devotional painter who, through abstract portraits of men and women transcends gender, race, and social structures
7 February 2021
Lakwena Maciver: Review-Interview Hastings Contemporary – Revd Jonathan Evens
Born in 1986 to an English mother and a Ugandan father, Lakwena Maciver studied graphic design at the London College of Communications, graduating in 2009.
31 January 2021
Nicola Ravenscroft Sculpture With A Peaceful Stillness – Revd Jonathan Evens
Nicola Ravenscroft A graduate of Camberwell School of Art, she has owned and run a sculpture gallery and, as an art teacher, has nurtured many young people into celebrating their inherent creativity and thinking beyond the walls.
6 December 2020
Artist Hannah Rose Thomas – Tears of Gold – Interview Revd Jonathan Evens
While living in Jordan as an Arabic student in 2014, Hannah Rose Thomas worked with UNHCR to organise art projects with Syrian refugees for an exhibition to commemorate World Refugee Day.
25 November 2020
Marcus Lyon: Human Atlas Explorations – Interview Revd Jonathan Evens
Marcus Lyon is an artist whose early work took him to the slums and ghettos of the developing world to explore issues surrounding street children and child labour.
18 November 2020