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Interview with Katie Tomlinson

I love being silly and laughing, so it was inevitable that a bit of humour would find its way into my paintings. A lot of my paintings deal with quite difficult themes and often explore the darker sides of life and…

Art Process: Norman Ackroyd

Norman is restless. Always moving, thinking, fidgeting and playing. The creative energy comes out in…

Art Process: Anselm Kiefer

Anselm approaches the scale and the industrial techniques so freely. He’s pretty chilled. It seems like he’s just loosely painting…

Art Process: Pope. L

The subject of Pope.L’s work confronts a serious social concern. It exists across the world and it’s ongoing. He addresses this problem of inequality in the urban environment as…

Interview with artist Florence Hutchings for @floorrmagazine

“The dialogue with the work and the space around it continually changes. Whether it be the work in the studio having a messier feel or being placed in an interior type gallery it could hold a homely relatable feel or if it is placed in a traditional white cube space it gives it a ‘finished’ feeling”

Interview with artist Edgar Serran for @floorrmagazine

“I typically choose raw materials for their political content, by which I mean the animal byproducts that are the building blocks of something known as dependency theory, which states that raw materials from underdeveloped countries are exported to wealthier nations/empires and enrich the latter at the expense of the former”

Interview with artist Hedley Roberts for @floorrmagazine

“My work is all about what is not known, evident or visible. I’m really interested how we ‘know’ each other, how we assess our knowledge of each other, and how we continually renegotiate our relationship to each other”

Superflat

Superflat is a contemporary art movement which was created by artist Takashi Murakami in 2001. The movement includes artists and designers who make work which uses flatness as a core part of the artwork. Superflat artists reference a broad range of influences in their work, including subjects from Japanese socio-political history and contemporary Japanese art and design.

Interview with artist Joshua Miller for @floorrmagazine

“To win the fight and keep the painting interesting, I have to push the physical qualities of paint and stretch the conceptual framework of the signifier”

Interview with artist Sophie Vallance for @floorrmagazine

“Making paintings is basically making a series of decisions, and its one of the only things in life that makes me be really present with what I’m doing, so the act of painting as well as the subject matter ends up being therapeutic”