My background in fashion is also evident in my work. Not only through the presentation of the human form in my paintings, but also through my love of colour, textures of fabrics and eye for detail...
Amy Beager
Camilla Hanney
Camilla Hanney. UK Young Artist Aards. Saatchi Gallery. Image courtesy of Reece Straw. I create work that speaks about the female body in quite a direct way which inserts the work into this bracket...
Contemporary artist Ivan de Menis
Contemporary artist Ivan de Menis talks about his frameworks and process in an interview with Anjali Singh for the Asian Curator. Artist portrait. Contemporary artist Ivan de Menis Please tell us a...
Category - Artist Interviews
Artist interviews. Interviews of artists and creative outliers about the source of their creative inspiration and how to be an artist.
For contemporary artist Sofía Ortiz, her work is a survival kit for an ecocidal, capitalist world. I see my role as a “re-organiser of things”. We think of...
People who think outside the box tend to find me. I definitely don’t attract purists. The base of the art world is secretly very conservative. They prefer...
When I graduated from art school, I left Cape Town on a freight ship and worked my way to Europe. I lived a wild life of political activism and abandon and...
Around the year 2000 I realised that ‘Conceptual art’ had become merely a kind of hollow rhetoric rather than an artistic statement. The word “conceptual” was...
Contemporary artist Pieter Jennes paints chiefly to entertain himself and others, a simple almost Zen-like reason. As an artist, I’m not afraid to fish in the...
Indian contemporary artist Sudipta Das recreates grand narratives of the dispossessed and the displaced through her paper sculptures. I dream of a ‘universal’...
Mughal history and natural pigments help contemporary miniature artist S. M. Khayyam create sensory explosions. One should never change one’s approach to gain...
What inspires me is good art and good exhibitions. It’s where everything begins. I consider myself an evangelist of art. I believe it is my ultimate duty to...
Gallery Seescape curator Sébastien Tayac says he and gallery founder Torlarp Larpjaroensook fuel their endeavour with their differences as much as their...
Contemporary artist Shivani Aggarwal believes that the execution must mirror the concept with as much fidelity as possible. I can’t say that I am committed to...