INTERVIEWS

February 2019

Interview with Christopher Riopelle, curator of 'Sorolla: Spanish Master of Light' exhibition at National Gallery, London (opened 18 March 2019), for a six-page feature 'Joachin Sorolla' in Artists & Illustrators magazine, pp.64-69, April 2019 issue.

Image left: The Young Fisherman, Valencia, 1904, Joachin Sorolla

December 2018

Artists & Illustrators magazine (March 2019 issue)

Interview with Helen Hillyard, Assistant Curator at Dulwich Picture Gallery, in reference to Rembrandt van Rijn on the 350th anniversary of his death in 2019, marked by many exhibitions worldwide, including 'Rembrandt's Light' exhibition at Dulwich Picture Gallery, which opens on 4th October, 2019 

September 2018

Interviewed Alison Smith, curator of 'Edward Burne-Jones', exhibition at Tate Britain, London, for a feature on Burne-Jones in Artists & Illustrators magazine. December issue. On sale November.

August 2018

Interview with the remarkable wildlife artist Ashley Boon, for Artists and Illustrators magazine, October issue.

Ashley Boon www.ashleyboon.co.uk 

June 2018

Interview, for Artists and Illustrators magazine, September issue, with the renowned English painter Glenn Brown, relating to his new exhibition, Glenn Brown: Fantasy Landscapes, Portraits and Beasts, at Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, from 16 June 2018.  

https://laingartgallery.org.uk/whats-on/glenn-brown

Image at left: In the end we all succumb to the pull of the molten core, copyright Glenn Brown, and Laing Art Gallery, 2018

February 2017

The new Tate St Ives

An interview with Sara Matson and Laura Smith, curators of Tate St Ives Art Gallery, discussing the re-opening of Tate St Ives at the end of March 2017. The interview was for a feature in Artists & Illustrators magazine, April 2017 issue.

December 2016

Professor John Milner, professor of Russian Art at the Courtauld, London

I interviewed Professor John Milner, co-curator of the Royal Academy exhibition 'Revolution: Russian Art 1917-1932', opening in February 2017, for 'Seeing Red', a six-page feature in Artists & Illustrators, February 2017 issue.

October 2016

Patrick Hughes Studio

Gt Eastern Street, London

I was given a fascinating tour of Patrick Hughes London studio by the artist before we sat down for an interview for Artists & Ilustrators magazine, January 2017 issue, published December 2016

Patrick Hughes work is indelibly linked to his reverperspective paintings (reverse perspective).  An exhibition of his latest work opens on 8 December 2016 at 45 Park Lane, London W1.

London, October 2016

For Artists & Illustrators magazine

An interview with John Milner, professor of Russian Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, co-curator of the forthcoming landmark exhibition at the Royal Academy, London, 'Revolution: Russian Art 1917-1932, which will mark the centenary of the Russian Revolution in 1917.

An interview with artist, sculptor, illustrator David Shrigley to be published in December issue of Artists & illustrators magazine, out November, 2016.

At left: David Shrigley, centre, with Ekow Eshun & Justine Simons, on 29 September, 2016, at launch of 'Really Good', Shrigley's thumbs-up sculpture for Fourth Plinth, Trafalgar Square, London.

In November 2016 issue of Artsts & Illustrators magazine, 'When I posed for Picassso', an interview-feature with artist Lydia Corbett, known as Sylvette David when she posed for Picasso at the age of nineteen.

In print, and available in digital edition, see https://www.chelseamagazines.com/shop/product/artists-illustrators-november-2016-digital-edition/

An interview with Guerrilla Girl 'Frida Kahlo', for Art Student, published by Artists & llustrators magazine. It coincides with the Guerrilla Girls exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery, London, 1 October 2016

read it here: http://issuu.com/chelseamagazines/docs/as0916/19?e=4871018/38975032

An interview with artist Janet Lance Hughes. During the 2014 Hay Festival the artist exhibited eleven portraits of modern Welsh icons, including Rob Brydon, Professor Steve Jones and Bryn Terfel.

After the exhibiton I asked Janet how she prepared her subjects for portraiture.

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This was first published in Cassone online Arts magazine in July 2014.

http://www.cassone-art.com/magazine/article/2014/07/jannet-lance-hughes-portraying-welsh-icons/?psrc=interviews

An interview with David Boyd Haycock, author of A Crisis of Brilliance: Five Young British Artists and the Great War (2010), and curator of 'A Crisis of Brilliance' exhibition at Dulwich Picture Gallery, London (until 22 September, 2013).

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The interview was first published online in Cassone, September 2013 issue,http://www.cassone-art.com/magazine/article/2013/09/david-boyd-haycock-a-crisis-of-brilliance-from-book-to-exhibition/?psrc=interviews

In March 2012, I went to the Open University, Milton Keynes for the Association of Art Historians (AAH) annual 3-day conference, as co-convenor of the Poster Session. On the train back to London I met Rhys Davies, Senior Lecturer in Media Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London, and co-convenor of the AAH session 'Modernism's Intermedialities: From Futurism to Fluxus'. We discussed Rhys's current research and future projects. I was fascinated by his 'sound' projects and he agreed to an interview, to tell me more.

The interview was first published in September 2012, in Cassone arts magazine.

In September 2012 on the opening day of his major retrospective at WORK gallery, London, I interviewed Brian Grimwood, acclaimed as 'the man who changed the look of British illustration'

It appeared in Cassone arts magazine in October, 2012.

I met Mike Nicholson at Whitechapel Gallery at the London Art Book Fair where he was one of the exhibitors. He was selling his various series of 'zines', to collectors who knew exactly what they wanted. Zine culture was new to me; and Mike agreed to an interview to explain the concept and his success with it.