Artist interview

The following is excerpted from Conversations with Artists, a collection of conversations by Heidi Zuckerman with thirty-four contemporary artists. INTERVIEWER Your work is extensive and takes many different forms. How do you respond when people ask you what you do? SIMPSON It gives me pause when people ask me what I do, because there are so […]

In this interview that appeared in Issue 16 of Highsnobiety Magazine, we speak with artist Reginald Sylvester II on what it means to figure art out.

She likens her practice to a game of “telephone” in which the work in question is constantly shifting in form and meaning during its progression. When she feels too comfortable with a particular method or idea she abandons it and moves on to something new. Your creative hunger seems to be independent of any particular medium. How important is the material to you? My working process is in many ways reminiscent of a dialogue. I never know how a certain [...]

Entering Melih’s studio feels like leaving the world as we know it behind and experience a daydream made out of rich colors, alluring images and memories

‘Jungle Galaxy’, oil on linen, 180 x 150 cm, 2013 by Emily Ferretti for her current show, ‘Paint Everyday’, at Sophie Gannon Gallery in Melbourne. Emily Ferretti‘s current show, ‘Paint Everyday’, at Sophie Gannon Gallery in Melbourne. Emily Ferretti painting in her Northcote studio earlier this week. Photo – Sean Fennessy. Emily’s paint table. Photo – Sean Fennessy. (I really love …

Christof Niemann

High angle portrait of elegant tattooed woman giving interview to reporters while opening modern art gallery exhibition

Marlene Steyn’s practice is one that typifies the cliché weird and wonderful. Oft difficult to decode, Steyn’s paintings and sculptures are multi-layered, subjects intertwined – the results represented in delicate narrative style. When I first […]

"Des visages et des fleurs", is the name of her new exhibition at the Paris Contemporary Art Show 2019 from November 7 until November 11, 2019. Here's our exclusive interview with the artist herself, Nina Koltchitskaia.

Hannah Traore is fighting against elitism in the art world.