Contemporary Arts

October 23, 2023

Nabibakhsh Mansoori | Artist Interview Series

“I had to feel the world created inside me… I wanted to create a world of my own. It seemed to me that all this was possible only in painting. Perhaps this feeling, the need of my soul has been motivating me to paint since childhood!”

July 18, 2023

Are there Limits to Human Creativity? Perspectives from Contemporary Artists

“For now we seem to be limited by our own greed/selfishness and inability to see and acknowledge what we are doing to the world. However, creativity offers us hope to change this.” – Susan Aldworth

July 18, 2023

The Meaning of Vulnerability: Conversations with Contemporary Artists

“It is actually in these moments where one expects infallible heroism I enjoy exploring mistakes or awkwardness. By exploring these qualities in the figures I portray there’s room for me to express my own anxieties or lack of certainty.” – Rebecca Munce

February 15, 2023February 15, 2023

Thomas Broomé | Artist Interview Series

“When I started working on the piece it suddenly struck me that Donald Trump is constantly distorting the truth in what he says and does. I decided to mirror all text on half of the painting and as a ball of lightning I realised that in the context of my work this was a revolution. Suddenly I could create a mirrored world, a false world. From that, MirrorLand was created…”

January 30, 2023January 30, 2023

Alexis Rockman | Artist Interview Series

“‘Failure’ is an opportunity I hadn’t thought of yet.”

January 19, 2023January 18, 2023

William Grob | Artist Interview Series

“The idea of finding ourselves and losing ourselves are the same thing. The creative process is both introspective and extrospective… We sometimes need the willingness to leave the paddock and our own preconceptions of ourselves behind to see a new perspective.”

January 10, 2023January 3, 2023

Meicheng Chi | Artist Interview Series

“I think I became more fearless facing negative emotions because I know through drawing, they will melt into the air and become color and pencil strokes that I can hug and keep.”

January 4, 2023January 9, 2023

Daniel Howden | Artist Interview Series

“You really need failure to learn and kick back against. [In a world without failure] my art would be really similar, but perhaps more playful in subject, often larger, kinder to my hands and more considered. Maybe I’d live in America, too. That’s where the excess lies.”