Excessive Refinement with Camille Provost
16 February 2026 • Kate McIlwee
In this interview, I join Provost to look over the ledge and discuss her creative process, love for materials, and what being an excessive refiner means to her.
INTERVIEWS
Find all the interviews we have carried out over the last 10+ years. We have interviewed artists both well known and up and coming famous and soon to be famous.
Cato Ouyang talks to Phillip Edward Spradley
4 February 2026 • Phillip Edward Spradley
Cato Ouyang works in a subtle terrain where power becomes normalized and meaning is shaped through systems that present themselves as benign, necessary, or even protective.
Allee Willis and Beatie Wolfe
3 February 2026 • Mark Westall
2019, as wildfires raged across California, Allee Willis welcomed her dear friend the radically experimental artist Beatie Wolfe into her home
Holding the Doomscroll Still with Mattia Guarnera
31 January 2026 • Kate McIlwee
Guarnera looks towards Black masculinity within digital fragments: YouTube replays, WorldStar moments, and algorithmic traces of street culture.
Sophie Seita talks to Jessica Wan about Language, Performance and Embodied Reading
27 January 2026 • Jessica Wan
Working across performance, sound, textiles, and pedagogy, Sophie Seita approaches language not as a fixed system but as a living, sensuous material
Everything but the Kitchen Sink with Max Boyla
19 January 2026 • Kate McIlwee
Later, Max will tell me he sees the sink as a portal, and I feel invited through this threshold again on my way to meet him.
In the Studio with Robert Charles Mann
22 December 2025 • Paige Miller
Robert Charles Mann is ducking under a 3 meter long, 400 year old oak beam in his Loire Valley studio.
Kelly Wall talks to Phillip Edward Spradley
16 December 2025 • Phillip Edward Spradley
Running through all of this is Wall’s steady attention to the unstable sense of “here,” a condition Los Angeles continually complicates.
Interview: A Conversation with Tong Kunniao
14 December 2025 • Yichun Huang
I had a long conversation with the artist Tong Kunniao. His works are playful, unruly, and free, often refusing to follow any conventional path.
We talk to John M. Armleder about Encore(s) at MAMCO Geneva
9 December 2025 • Camille Moreno
We cornered Armleder just before the opening to “talk shop”, from Duchamp and books to the unpredictable pleasures of fate
In Conversation with Chloé Vanderstraeten
28 November 2025 • Paige Miller
For artist Chloe Vanderstraeten, paper is not just for craft; it is a flexible, sensitive material capable of carrying anatomical and emotional weight.
Jesse Zuo talks to Phillip Edward Spradley
18 November 2025 • Phillip Edward Spradley
Jesse Zuo’s paintings operate at the intersection of intimacy and estrangement, offering viewers a lens into the quiet rituals of women in private, interior spaces.
Interview: Inside the World’s First Sufi Art and Culture Museum.
11 November 2025 • Tabish Khan
A unique and welcome new museum on the outskirts of Paris.
Tom Sachs- On Vessels, Value, and the Expanded Field.
20 October 2025 • Mark Westall
When we spoke, Tom was in a taxi on his way to Heathrow, heading back to New York after the opening of his exhibition A Good Shelf at Thaddaeus Ropac
Paradigm Shift: Interview with Co-Curator Jefferson Hack and Associate Curator Susanna Davies-Crook
15 October 2025 • Mark Westall
We spoke with curators Jefferson & Susanna about the power of screen- based art, and how creativity continues to resist and reinvent in dark times.
Shepard Fairey: Finding Common Ground — Collaboration, Chaos and Creative Chemistry
11 October 2025 • Mark Westall
At Newport Street Gallery, Triple Trouble brings together three giants of contemporary visual culture — Shepard Fairey, Damien Hirst, and Invader
At the Brink: a new gallery for experiment and exchange in architecture, art, and craftsmanship
6 October 2025 • Marta Bogna-Drew
With the opening of Brink in West London, architect Richard Parr, expands his vision into a new realm of cultural dialogue.
Raina Lee talks to Phillip Edward Spradley
2 October 2025 • Phillip Edward Spradley
Raina Lee’s ceramics exist at the threshold between artifact and apparition, offering objects that feel both unearthed from a distant past and conjured from an imagined future.
Conrad Shawcross’s ‘Umbilical’ the culmination of a 25 year obsession.
28 September 2025 • Mark Westall
The Nervous System Umbilical, 2025, is the most ambitious machine in Conrad Shawcross’s Rope Makers series.
Zarina Nares talks to Phillip Edward Spradley
14 July 2025 • Phillip Edward Spradley
Zarina Nares’ work spans video, performance, text, and print to interrogate the aesthetics and politics of contemporary identity.
Sidony O’Neal talks to Phillip Edward Spradley
4 July 2025 • Phillip Edward Spradley
Sidony O’Neal is a conceptual artist whose work draws from the deep logics of mathematics, architectural systems, and the mutable histories of objects.
Sammi Lynch talks to Phillip Edward Spradley
18 June 2025 • Phillip Edward Spradley
Sammi Lynch is a London-based artist whose work delves into the emotional and psychological layers embedded within landscapes.
Gaia Ozwyn talks to Chard Adio
8 June 2025 • Chard Adio
In her debut solo exhibition with LBF Contemporary, British-Caribbean artist Gaia Ozwyn invites us into a space charged with intimacy and introspection.
Black Panthers & Revolution: FAD Interview with Stephen Shames
3 June 2025 • Lee Sharrock
The exhibition features iconic images of civil rights leaders and activists: Martin Luther King Jr, Bobby Seale, Huey Newton, Maya Angelou and Angela Davis