Interviews

The young collectors on the hunt for Old Masters

New York-based collectors Domenico Lanzara and Sean Imfeld speak to Apollo about their obsession with Old Master drawings

22 Oct 2024

The cosmic art of Liliane Lijn

The artist has pursued her interest in light, motion and myth across drawing, sculpture and performance for six decades, but it’s her openness to new ideas that really defines her work

19 Oct 2024

In the studio with… Pauline Curnier Jardin

When working in her suntrap of a studio in Rome, the artist enjoys people-watching, listening to jazz and admiring an antique manhole cover made of travertine

3 Oct 2024

Scotland the brave – an interview with the director of Studio Voltaire

As the cutting-edge arts organisation in south London turns 30, Joe Scotland talks to Apollo about class, community and contemporary art

26 Sep 2024

Tamsin Wimhurst: the woman who saves the extraordinary homes of ordinary people

The social historian who bought the David Parr House in Cambridge finds herself drawn to fantastical interiors in unexpected settings

6 Sep 2024

The tennis coach who’s having a ball collecting abstract art

James Trotman, who coaches Britain’s current #1 tennis player, talks to Apollo about his love of modern British painting and why art and tennis are a good match

27 Aug 2024

‘I wanted conversations, I wanted people, I wanted the play’ – an interview with Hildegard Bechtler

Creating the sets for plays at the National Theatre, the Barbican and the Royal Court is no mean feat. The German-born set designer speaks to Apollo about how she works her magic

22 Aug 2024

Eric Fischl enters the third dimension

The painter has turned his hand to virtual reality, using cutting-edge technology to pursue ‘a painter’s idea of sculpture’. He talks to Apollo about the attractions of VR

15 Aug 2024

Exposing the colonial past – an interview with Sammy Baloji

Taking photographs as a starting point, the artist unearths the hidden connections between European colonialism and modern-day Africa

1 Aug 2024

Jeremy Frey weaves new worlds

The seventh-generation basketry artist is bringing new dynamism to an ancient craft

28 Jul 2024

In the studio with… Eduardo Terrazas

The Mexican artist, known for his woven works that borrow from folk-art traditions, listens to Bach and Rosalía while working in his studio in Colonia Roma, Mexico City

24 Jul 2024

In the studio with… Joy Labinjo

The artist observes a long working day in her studio in Harringay, but enjoys listening to bashment, riding her Peloton and thumbing through books by Kerry James Marshall

15 Jul 2024

‘It’s about what’s in your heart and soul. Technology’s just some tool’ – an interview with Bill Viola (1951–2024)

The pioneering video artist has died at the age of 73. In this interview from our March 2014 issue, he talked to Apollo about how his work grapples with some of life’s biggest questions

15 Jul 2024

In the studio with… Wendy Sharpe

The artist has all she needs in her capacious studio in Sydney, where her artist partner, some audiobooks and a Mexican papier-mâché skeleton keep her company

6 Jun 2024

‘My art’s got to be a carnival, I’m there with you’ – an interview with Alvaro Barrington

Ahead of his Tate Britain commission, the artist tells Apollo about being inspired by Tupac and Cy Twombly and wanting to involve communities in everything he makes

24 May 2024

The revolutionary textiles of Britta Marakatt-Labba

The influential Sami artist talks to Apollo about how she has always woven politics and protest into her work

23 May 2024

In the studio with… Joan Semmel

The New York native keeps up with current affairs, listens to Radio Garden and works every day – that is, when she’s not entertaining Leonardo DiCaprio

21 May 2024

Transforming the National Gallery, one painting at a time

The museum’s head of framing, Peter Schade, is quietly changing how we see some of the world’s most famous pictures

14 May 2024

In the studio with… Erwin Wurm

The artist finds solace in Annie Ernaux and a booming Tibetan sound bowl while working on his playful sculptures in the Austrian countryside

9 May 2024

In the studio with… Matthew Krishanu

The artist takes inspiration from Billie Holiday, El Greco and a pair of old Indian puppets when painting large-scale canvases in his East London studio

30 Apr 2024

Space explorer – an interview with Kapwani Kiwanga

Despite the painstaking research that underpins the artist’s work, there’s nothing dry about its outcomes – as visitors to the Canadian Pavilion in Venice will discover

17 Apr 2024

How Adriano Pedrosa is opening up the Venice Biennale

The director of the 2024 Biennale talks to Apollo about the challenges the event faces and why he is sanguine about the changing political tides

15 Apr 2024

In the studio with… Ibrahim Mahama

When he’s not using stadiums to realise his visions, the artist welcomes all manner of visitors, from school kids to tuk-tuk drivers, in his studio-cum-gallery in northern Ghana

11 Apr 2024

A gallerist with an eye for art and the desire to make a scene

Betty Sims-Hilditch explains how a background in set design and a commitment to emerging artists inform her new roaming gallery project, Artground

4 Apr 2024