What are you up to at the moment? I’m researching for a new project at the moment, which I plan to start shooting in April on a small isolated scientific research island in Scotland. That’s all I’m saying for now How would you describe your approach to photography? I think my work has started to [...]
What are you up to at the moment? I am plotting. Plotting how to get out of Britain to be somewhere a little sunnier, a little warmer and with a lot more space and nature around me. What is it about desert and isolation that you find so attractive? I live in London and at [...]
JR: Blow Up on Nowness.com. Young people stare up at the sky from a Hong Kong bridge and a meters-long nude odalisque reclines along the banks of the Seine in artist JR’s infamous posters, explored in a new short from NOWNESS regular Matt Black. The massive, iconic images can be found hand-pasted to crumbling buildings, trains, [...]
What makes you want to photography people’s fridge? When I started this series of photographs I was working with another artist on a documentary about Hunger. Talking with people about their experiences made me begin to think deeply about food issues. I tried all sorts of things–photographing tables, food items cut open, countertops–before I started [...]
I draw from my imagination. But of course you never really make anything up entirely. My books generally come from some picture that I would like to do – it starts from something visual. My book The Green Ship started from a picture of this ship made of trees and bushes, all cut into [...]
What responsibility do you enjoy most as an executive director of Robert Rauschenberg Foundation? The most inspiring aspects of my job relate to defining and supporting the legacy of one of history’s greatest artists- Robert Rauschenberg. It is about the process of creating history. You identify people who can advise you and tell stories – [...]
Exhibition Artists and Work We the People will create a diorama of the American populace using strategically chosen examples of figurative painting, sculpture, and photography. Works from American artists of older generations―including Romare Bearden, George Segal, Margaret Bourke-White, Alice Neel, Duane Hanson, Alex Katz, and Robert Rauschenberg—will be installed in cacophonous dialogue with works by [...]
We’re intrigued by your tape drawing activity can you please tell us a bit more? No comment Who or what inspires you? Hangovers, dinosaurs, cats. What are you working on right now? I’m currently making artworks for my solo show at Hoxton Gallery, we haven’t set a date yet but it will be sometime soon. As [...]
On Materials… When I make an image, I always start off with handmade collages and drawings. I like to work with material I have collected over the years; I hate throwing away paper! I also use stickers and sweet wrappers as well. I recently exhibited some new pieces of work for a group show called The [...]
