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Helaine Blumenfeld: ‘Beauty has no real meaning any more’

The sculptor talks about her ideas of beauty and pain, and how she learned to express these through ...

Joel Shapiro: ‘As an artist, you are synthesising the stuff around you i...

The influential American sculptor, now in the fifth decade of his career, brings out his wood wall r...

Athena Papadopoulos: ‘Art is a kind of alchemy: turning shit into gold’

Drawing inspiration from her childhood and her womanising, fur-dealer father, Papadopoulos works acr...

Tim Benson: ‘I wanted my work to have more meaning’

The artist talks about storytelling through portraiture, and the human face of Ebola...

James Wilkes: ‘Mind-wandering has became a productive way for us to disr...

The exhibition Rest & its discontents at the Mile End Art Pavilion, London, is one of a number of ev...

John Akomfrah – interview: ‘The question of discourse is absolutely ce...

The artist explains the inspirations for his new split-screen film, Auto da Fé, and talks about the...

Nicolás Herrera: ‘this mural is about life’

Studio International travelled to Cuenca, Ecuador, to talk to Nicolás Herrera about his new work, E...

Cecilia Brunson: ‘In the case of Willys de Castro, it’s also a percept...

The Latin American art dealer explains the ethos of her Bermondsey gallery and the importance of the...

Carla Rapoport: ‘I like to think we’re the Elvis of the art world’

The founder of the Lumen Prize says Elvis brought gospel and black music into the mainstream, and sh...

James Richards: ‘I was really into making an exhibition space where ther...

The artist, who will be representing Wales in Venice (Cymru yn Fenis) at next year’s biennale, tal...

Arthur Watson: ‘What connected Nagoya and Chicago was the level of inter...

The artist talks about his current exhibition, Double Diablerie, in which he explores superstitions ...

Toby Ziegler: ‘In half an hour, you can undo an entire month’s work’

Toby Ziegler explains his processes of painting and sanding, and using Google’s reverse image sear...

Joey Holder: ‘I’d like to see a lot more collaboration between the sci...

The artist shows Studio International around her ‘futuristic medical room’ installation and expl...

Simon Starling: ‘A little knowledge is a powerful thing, and too much kn...

The Turner Prize-winning conceptual artist underscores his first institutional show in New York with...

Peter Liversidge: ‘My work is solely about engagement’

The artist talks about the significance of his “proposals”, and discusses his recent project at ...

Tom Ellis: ‘Defining yourself in opposition to something else is always ...

The British artist talks about context, subversion and what it means to build a career in the middle...

Susan Webster and Stuart Kestenbaum: interview

Maine’s poet laureate Stuart Kestenbaum and artist Susan Webster talk about their recent collabora...

Michelangelo Pistoletto: ‘The mirror is always part of one unique mirror...

In the startlingly altered states of Blenheim Palace, the multifarious Michelangelo Pistoletto spoke...

Simon Lewty: ‘I draw only from the imagination’

Lewty, whose work combines fantastic images with text, talks about where his inspiration comes from,...

Sofia Borges: ‘Photography can be used as a tool to mould our sense of r...

The artist subverts photography, as she strives to ‘rub out meaning’. Instead, she explains, she...

Zhao Zhao: ‘You cannot separate art from politics’

A prominent member of the post-1980s generation of Chinese artists and a former assistant of Ai Wewe...

Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva: ‘I am driven by making the impossible possible’

The artist, who makes beautiful works of art using waste products from the meat industry talks about...

Karen Guthrie: ‘Family history is a hidden pain with lots of people. A f...

Karen Guthrie: ‘Family history is a hidden pain with lots of people. A film can bring those things...

Douglas Kotwall: ‘We want to incubate young, contemporary Chinese artist...

Kotwall, a senior member of the K11 Art Foundation, talks about the ethos and goals of the organisat...

Guan Xiao: ‘I am learning about humour. It is a precious quality’

The artist talks about how the digital revolution has influenced her work, the roles of text and hum...

Amy Franceschini: ‘It’s kind of simple: I want to be alive and I want ...

The artist talks about her upbringing in the breadbasket of America, and how this taught her about t...

Sean Scully: ‘The stripe can do anything in any direction, and since it ...

Abstract artist Sean Scully talks about why he changed his style so radically in the 1980s, the infl...

Conrad Shawcross: ‘It’s created a skin for the surface of this buildin...

The artist explains his use of the moiré effect in designing an optical cloak for a tall industrial...

Clare Jarrett: ‘It’s almost as though the work is already there somewh...

The Norwich-based artist talks about her recent residency at the Barbershop in Norwich, and her prac...

Cyril de Commarque: ‘I believe in a new renaissance of thinking’

The French artist has converted a grain barge into an artwork to sail the Thames, blasting out a sou...

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