Reading Time: 5 minutes Rhona Duffy talks to Anne Schwegmann-Fielding about how she depicts social history in her art and connects people with materials and places.
Category Archives: INTERVIEW
Bright, bold and happy: A journey from stained glass to mosaics
Reading Time: 7 minutes Without a formal art education, Irish mosaicist Elaine Prunty worked her way from a night class making stained glass bird light-catchers up to creating four-metre high stainless steel mosaicked structures.
The shape of breath: 1200 Derece leads glass innovation in Turkey
Reading Time: 7 minutes Matt Hanson meets Merve Araslı, the founder of 1200 Derece, one of Turkey’s leading independent glass-makers.
The meditative mosaicist abstracting a traditional craft
Reading Time: 8 minutes WRITTEN & NARRATED BY REBECCA ANN HUGHES
Edinburgh-based Joanna Kessel has been recently awarded the Visual Arts Scotland Inches Carr Creative Development Award 2022, which will support a research project that will enable Joanna to develop new work. Rebecca Ann Hughes caught up with Joanna to find out about the ethos and inspirations underlying her art practice.
Ecology as mosaic: the work of Isidora Paz López
Reading Time: 7 minutes WRITTEN & NARRATED BY MATT A HANSON
Matt Hanson interviews Chilean artist Isidora Paz López about her journey to mosaic art and asks her about her large-scale mosaic interventions in Chile and Germany.
Doing something different
Reading Time: 7 minutes BY ANGELA YOUNGMAN
Taking on board the advice to “do something different” has created a successful niche for Bristol-based artist Helen Nock, who describes her art as “a relationship between finding and imagination”. Angela Youngman explores.
Lost Iraqi art reappears in mosaic
Reading Time: 6 minutes WRITTEN & NARRATED BY MATT A HANSON
Michael Rakowitz has made it his life’s work to recreate, in mosaic, art that’s been lost to war in Iraq. Matt Hanson explores his journey.
When Helen met Carrie
Reading Time: 12 minutes WRITTEN & NARRATED BY HELEN MILES
Helen Miles talks to Carrie Reichardt about the positive effect art has on herself and others, and how she uses her art to give a voice to those who might otherwise not be heard.
Silvia Levenson: Storytelling and survival
Reading Time: 7 minutes WRITTEN & NARRATED BY CHRISTINA ELIA
Christina Elia talks to Argentinian glass artist Silvia Levenson about how she channels her experiences of trauma and exile into creativity.