Name
Richard Stone
Richard Stone
Location
London
Website
Brief artist’s statement
Works materialise in many forms from objects and installation through to site-specific interventions. These ultimately break down conventions of representation, offering new and explorative directions.
How did you become an artist? Did you always dream of a life in the art-world?
I think it’s always about becoming. I wouldn’t yet say that I was living the dream.
How has your education helped your career?
Life is an education, it helps to break things down, rebuilding from the ruins is always fun.
Do you work as an artist full-time? Describe your typical day. Do you have a routine?
It fluctuates, having said that, the thought process is continuous, it’s not a routine, and it’s manoeuvring around the obstacles of work and deadlines that’s the problem. This interview is a welcome distraction.
Which historical and contemporary artists do you refer to most often? How are you influenced by their work?
Caspar David Friedrich and Vilhem Hammershoi are current obsessions for their depictions of solitude, but I always say that a few words in the right (or wrong order) or lines from books are incredibly influential in their own right.
What are the other influences on your work?
Depictions of Victorian aspiration and failure, landscape and popular cultural references, all mixed up and poured out of a new melting pot of possibilities.
What was the last exhibition you visited?
The last great exhibitions visited were Henry Moore at Gagosian and Edvard Munch at Tate.
What is your favourite art gallery?
Raven Row, but the Serpentine is always part of a good trip, it feels like you’re going somewhere.
What are your experiences of the ‘art-world’ and the business of art?
I think without visibility, exhibiting can feel like an expensive hobby.
Do you have any tips or advice you wish you had known earlier in your career?
Good PR is as important as the statements you want to make through the work.
Do you have a quotation that you keep coming back to and that keep you going? Have you a motto that gets you through?
I try to think about light rather than words in this instance.
Which historical artist do you think is over-rated? Why?
Isn’t that unfair given how subjective we are… I think taking elements of art history that we think work or are interesting and reinterpreting them adds much more to the conversation.
Do you or would you use assistants to make your work?
Without a doubt as long it retains an element of the handmade, precision can take the sense out of the work and flaws often have so much more to say.
Do you use social networks? If so, how and which ones do you find most useful?
I started tweeting recently; I find it revolutionary and retarding at the same time.
Which artist should we all look up immediately? What art magazines, blogs or sites should art lovers be looking at?
Alex Ball and Augustina Woodgate are making interesting work. https://www.artlicks.com/ is always good for what’s on outside of the mainstream.
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