artist interview

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…

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”

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”

Interview with artist Kwanwoo Park for @floorrmagazine

“My practice is like making mirrors. The mirror that reflects different perspective, different spacetime, but the subject who stares at the mirror can always be found in the work”

Interview with artist Willian Santos

“I’m interested in the relationship between the abstract and the figurative. The challenge is to the viewer. I aim to challenge their perspective of reality and see how far my work will take them.” – Willian Santos in discussion with featherblend.

Interview with artist Douglas Cantor for @floorrmagazine

“A lot of what I do revolves around the concept of identity and I think having had to move and relocate both by choice and by force plays a big role in this.”

Interview with artist Haffendi Anuar for @floorrmagazine

“This idea of the landscape that I am interested in is not always something physical, it could be a “dimension” informed by design, object, politics and the Internet”

Interview with artist Theo Ellison for @floorrmagazine

“Shock value for its own sake isn’t interesting, if it’s even possible to conjure it post-Information Age. However, I do look to inject a certain level of visual immediacy within the work to engage the viewer in a dialogue around the nature of imaging making”