studio sessions
Join me as I visit artists in their studios to learn about their practices, inspirations and the spaces they work in.
15 April 2024
I want people to have their own agency when they look at a work but that doesn’t mean there isn’t somewhere that it came from. — Edie Flowers
The London-based artist on the ritual of the studio visit, the connections between sculpture and drawing and being sister magpies.
25 March 2024
People have gathered together to watch music for centuries. I want my work to have that feeling that you can’t quite place it in time. — Harriet Gillett
The London-based artist on the timelessness of live music, playing with scale and why Kate Bush won’t email her back.
26 March 2024
The dolls are these kind of perfect objects but there’s nothing inside them. They’re dead. So it’s all about seduction and surface. And I think hyperrealism is the same. There’s this vacuousness to it that relates to the objects I’m painting.
— Rachel Hobkirk
The Scottish-born, London-based artist Rachel Hobkirk on girlhood, dolls and the allure of artifice.
27 February 2024
I don’t have all the answers about these questions that I’m asking, about the way society is, the way I relate to gender or sex. I’m just raising things that chime weirdly in some way and trying to unpack them. — Rosie Gibbens
The London-based artist on returning the gaze, the ‘perverse inner logic’ of her artmaking and trusting herself in performance.
5 February 2024
I’m going to do things I couldn’t do before because of the time constraints. I didn’t have time for things to go wrong but now I’m trying new things again. — Vilté Fuller
The London-based Lithuanian painter on exotic chillies, embracing innovation and the appeal of the grid.
5 February 2024
I used to think of drawing as an expression of myself, but now I perceive it as an expression of the materials themselves. — Chengwei Xia
The London-based Chinese artist on producing plant-based dyes, the generative act of drawing and the comfort of citrus fruits.