James Lavelle (UNKLE) interview
Share DJ giant JAMES LAVELLE steps up to the big pink plate to talk art, DIY record labels and unmasking himself from the UNKLE outfit. With a whole host of records under his belt, and a phone book stretching from Ian Brown and Beck to Lupe Fiasco, Lavelle reflects wisely as a veteran of music....
Interview: Philippa Found, Curator of The Body in Women’s Art Now, Part 3:Recreation
Share I first met Philippa Found, Director of the ROLLO Gallery and curator of the Body in Women’s Art Now exhibition series, when I was still a student, at the private view of Part 1: Embodied in the New Hall Art Collection. Three years and three exhibitions later I have come to Cleveland Street to...
Artist Interview – Fariha Nasir Hassaan
Share Name: Fariha Nasir Hassaan Location: Oberlin, Ohio, USA Website: http://farihahassaan.com/ Brief artists statement: How does a mark on a canvas alter it? How does it tie the image together or break it apart? Painting, indeed, is like a chess game, as a friend so cleverly put it. Over the past two years, I have...
Artist Interview – Aaron Wooten
Share Name: Aaron Wooten Location: Chicago, IL Website: http://web.mac.com/aaronrwooten Brief artists statement: My work strives for the absurd. From political cartoons to erotica, I think humour is best and the most powerful way to display a message. How did you become an artist? Did you always dream of a life in the art-world? Through...
Artist Interview – Nathan Freedman
Share Name: Nathan (Tobey) Freedman Location: New York City Website: http://www.saatchionline.com/buy-art/all?query=natey+freedman Brief artists statement: I am a 77 year old retiree who took up painting after a long career in TV and radio news reporting, journalism, public relations, and lastly retail store ownership. How did you become an artist? Did you always dream of...
Artist Interview – Sarah Taylor Silverwood
Share Name: Sarah Taylor Silverwood Location: Birmingham, UK Website: http://www.sarahsilverwood.com/ Brief artists statement: I make drawings and text-based works about cities, looking at the relationship between humans and architecture. I draw from a range of influences including the idea of the ‘flaneur’, comic books and writings about modernity. It’s interdisciplinary – I think it...
Artist Interview – Charlotte Hopkins Hall
Share Name: Charlotte Hopkins Hall Location: London Website: http://www.charlottehopkinshall.com/ Brief artists statement: Like so many painters before me I have a very real curiosity of man’s idiosyncrasies and relation to reality. From this I paint a form of psychological drama, shaped by a desire for my paintings to interact with the viewer by creating...
Artist Interview: Kirsty Tinkler, Patio Project #4, WW Gallery
Share The WW Gallery’s fourth Patio Project is Australian artist, Kirsty Tinkler’s Face Off: ‘a mute dialogue between two buildings’ which explores society’s relationship, and reflection in, architecture. On the day that Kirsty finishes her install I head out in the cold after work to Hackney to interview her. Kirsty’s work challenges directly the old...
Artist insight: Marcin Krupa
Share This painting is inspired by an image from a Polish newspaper during a national debate on the health care system. The painter Marcin Krupa wanted to catch at a glance an aspect of daily life which affects all society.Those nurses are not simply an image of the middle class workers but indeed the picture...
Artist insight: Federica Lucia Vinella
Share When I came in Berlin, first steps on ground I had a feeling that I was walking in a silent black and white picture. There was nothing that could remind me of the blue friendly vibe of my land. Silent. White. Grey, then again Silent. Bricks, factories, smooth shapes walking lonely on the streets....
The dream scenarios of Clare Rosean
Share Where my real life anxieties, phobias, and compulsions are acted out in dream scenarios is where I find my most inspiration. The pieces here belong to different phases of my development, and consequently they each belong to their own particular series. All of my work is narrative; allow me to briefly describe the narrative...
Artist Interview – Emilee Lord
Share Name: Emilee Lord Location: Santa Fe New Mexico Website: http://emileelord.com/ Brief artists statement: Multiples: The repetition creates a flock. Aesthetically I prefer things that are broken, smudged, burned, torn, empty, forgotten, mislaid or sorry. These objects carry their own weight, but like a thread into a tapestry or a word into a novel...
Artist Interview – Vinothini Satchithananthan
Share Name: Vinothini Satchithananthan Location: California Brief artists statement: I find drawing as a powerful tool to express and calm my inner self. Drawing is a way for me to have access to something that has no welcoming through any other process. It could grant access to a fragment of my history, my ever-changing...
Nude – A multimedia interactive installation by Eva Caridi
Share In the following two weeks Eva Caridi, a Greek-English artist, will present a pop-up mulitmedia installation, Nude, at Ambika P3. The site-specific work is an 11-ton artwork consisting of two labyrinths and is one of the largest installations ever shown in central London. The installation took over five years to complete and will be...
Artist Interview: Michael Chomick
Share Name: Michael Chomick Location: Los Angeles, CA Website: michaelchomick.com Brief artist statement: Being a contemporary artist for the past 25 years and counting, my works and exploration has primarily been focussed on the “Human Condition”. The works have been produced in a variety of mediums. This has kept the making of art for me fresh and...
Interview with The Attic Sleepers
Share Band Name: The Attic Sleepers Where are you based and what area do you play in? We are based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Link to your website: www.theatticsleepers.com (coming soon) http://theatticsleepers.bandcamp.com/ http://www.facebook.com/theatticsleepers How many years has your band been together/ have you been performing? We’ve been together for a year and a...
Interview: Odissi Ensemble
Share Interview with Katie Ryan – Odissi Ensemble When did you discover Odissi? I was introduced to Odissi by Sanjeevini Dutta who ran an after-school club at my primary school in Bedford. At that time Kadam were a community dance organisation based in Bedford – now they have moved to the Hat Factory in Luton...
Artist Interview – Alicia Haberman
Share Name: Alicia Haberman Location: Originally from NY. Recently moved to LA. Website: http://www.seductionkills.com Brief artists statement: My illustration is visual stream of conscious. Everything is tied together, but what you see at first glance isn’t necessarily what it seems. How did you become an artist? I’ve always been an artist in the sense that...
Interview with David Abecassis
Share Interview with David Abecassis Location: New York Website: www.davidabecassis.com Brief artist’s statement: Hopefully the emotions solicited from looking can repair some discord or fissure; so something broken may be repaired. When one can identify with another’s memory, it creates a sense of commonality illustrating that we are different in our lived experience...
Interview with Hester Berry
Share Name: Hester Berry Location: Brighton UK Website: www.hesterberry.co.uk Brief artist’s statement: My fantastical landfill constructs are a meditation on the convoluted nature of modern life, as well as an illustration of the idea that pollution of every description encroaches on our fragile and overburdened environment, to the detriment of all. By...
Artist Interview – Fred Cray
Share Name: Fred Cray Location: Brooklyn, NY Website: http://www.fredcray.com Brief artists statement: After 30 years I still love making art and being around art in New York How did you become an artist? Did you always dream of a life in the art-world? I knew I would be in the arts from 6th grade on,...
Interview with Stuart Newman
Share Name/Band Name: Stuart Newman Where are you based and what area do you play in? Brighton, UK Website: www.stuartnewmanmusic.com (music, video, free downloads) How many years has your band been together/ have you been performing? About 3 years I guess. How old were you when you started playing? Well, I started playing a...
Artist Interview – Megan Savoy
Share Megan Savoy Name:Megan Savoy Location: Portland, OR Website: Currently in process Brief artists statement: My work combines the aesthetic of femininity, the politics of feminism and where those two things blur. What does it mean to be a feminine feminist? How did you become an artist? Did you always dream of a life...
Artist Interview – Steven Wagner
Share Name: Steven Wagner Location: Chicago Website: http://www.artistrising.com/galleries/Wagner Brief artists statement: Folks say all sorts of things. The other day someone asked me the question every artist dreads: Where do you get your ideas? So I sez, the archetypes welling forth. The Cave. God. Angels, yes, angels. And the chick leaves me alone. How did...
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