I spoke to London-based Royal College of Art graduate, practicing artist and gallery co-manager Rosalind Davis about the highs, lows and intricate details of setting up, administrating and promoting an artist-run space in Deptford. Rosalind very generously answered all of my questions in considerable depth, so I decided not to edit the interview at all. [...]
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Interview with artist Perienne Christian on her latest solo exhibition at cueB Gallery, London
I spoke with sensitive, thoughtful and skillful London-based artist Perienne Christian, on the eve of her solo exhibition ‘Scene/Heard’, opening today. We talked about new work, her self-directed lifestyle and the current aesthetic trend towards traditional materials and processes
What’s the inspiration behind your current work, now on show at cueB Gallery?
This body of work has [...]
Interviews from the Archives
Taking a duvet day… As yesterday’s artist interview with Nick Hornby attracted so many readers (yes, I love my stats machine!), I thought you might like to browse through my artist, sculptor, painter, writer interview archives…
Institutional Critique artist Mark Dion, interviewed at Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, September 2009
Becky Hunter: You’ve said that it’s [...]
Interview With Sculptor Nick Hornby
I met up with super hard-working, charming and articulate artist Nick Hornby back in summer ‘09. We had coffee at the Royal Festival Hall, London, a few yards away from his sculpture, ‘Walking in Our Mind’, commissioned to coincide with the next-door Hayward Gallery’s Walking in My Mind exhibition…
Recently hailed as the ‘New Gormley’, [...]
Latest Axis Web piece…
I’m very pleased to be writing opinionated pieces for Axis Web, a UK arts organisation seeking to hook up artists, curators and writers with opportunities and information.
Is all art (politically) useless?
Modern Moral Matters (Serpentine Gallery, London, 2010) is a brand new survey show of Richard Hamilton’s pop-political paintings and collages, including portraits of a [...]
Goshka Macuga: The Nature of the Beast, Whitechapel Gallery
The Bloomberg Commission: Goshka Macuga, The Nature of the Beast, 5th April 2009 – 4th April 2010, Whitechapel Gallery, London
Artist Goshka Macuga uses art history as a springboard to consider global, political and ethical themes. Drawing upon archival research alongside significant visual artefacts she weaves complex, interlocking stories, allowing gallery visitors to explore, learn and [...]
