This week I talk to Philip Harris, a British figurative artist who won 1st prize in the National Portrait Gallery’s 1993 BP Portrait Awards with his piece, ‘Two Figures Lying in a Shallow Stream’.
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Philip Harris | Artist Interview Series
Rebecca Munce | Artist Interview Series
Artist Rebecca Munce delves into exactly what she means by artistic vulnerability, whether she believes there are limits to human creativity, and which work of art she would erase from her mind, just so she could relive experiencing it for the first time.
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Ian Bertolucci | Artist Interview Series
Ian Bertolucci tells me how they perceive new Hollywood, their experience as a non-binary person in the art world, and what it means to them to be truly authentic as an artist.
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Connor Tudor | Artist Interview Series
This week I talk to Connor Tudor, an artist from Manchester whose paintings “stem from an interest in British Pub culture, utilising still life paintings as a way to form narratives around British cultural issues and values.”
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Matt Bannister | Artist Interview Series
I talk to Matt Bannister, an artist and illustrator based in London, “obsessed with the quirks and shapes of architecture, people, and everyday objects”.
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Gella Slabko | Artist Interview Series
I ask Gella Slabko how her cultural background impacts her works, what it means to her to be authentic as an artist, and her beliefs about the role of the photographer today in shaping society.
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Anne Desmet | Artist Interview Series
Anne Desmet tells me which alternate material she would wish to master, what it means to her to be vulnerable as an artist, and which work of art she would erase from her mind if she could, just to experience it again.
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Cody Ellingham | Artist Interview Series
Cody Ellingham is an architectural photographer and art director from New Zealand. With his ongoing project, DERIVE, he explores the world’s nocturnal cities, “when things take on new forms”. In this interview, he lets on to how he finds meaning in his process, and what it is about night time he finds so enticing to capture.
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Amaia Marzabal | Artist Interview Series
I talk with Amaia Marzabal, whose paintings explore human relationships and share a message which “helps people with their own reflections about society, stereotypes and social rules”.
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MURUGIAH | Artist Interview Series
MURUGIAH’s works are described as “surreal, joyful, loud and unapologetic”. His exploration in colour is partly a drive towards understanding his Sri Lankan heritage; having previously expressed his feeling as a “conduit” between Sri Lankan and British cultures, I wondered how he experiences that, how it is expressed in his works, and what it took for him to be truly unapologetic as an artist.
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Jack Dunnett | Artist Interview Series
Jack Dunnett is an artist born in Wick in the Scottish Highlands. Primarily using oil paints, he draws upon existential and archetypal imagery, describing his works as “scenes of a world which is not detached from our own, but rooted in the human experience of it”. I asked Jack to select a number of artworks…
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Oliver Lunn | Artist Interview Series
Oliver Lunn is a London-based artist from southeast England. His mixed media collage works are composed of materials “charged with history” – old found papers and magazines – manipulated and reconstructed in a process of layering, cutting, erasing and peeling back. Through this medium he “externalises the internal”, exploring new methods of refinement, down to “fragments of fragments”.
In this interview, Oliver elucidates the many influences behind his process, including an unrelenting “artistic restlessness”. The pieces shown below were ones selected by Oliver on the basis that they highlight themes touched on in our interview. He has “ordered them in a way where they complement one another – space vs chaos, colour vs calm”.
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