Apollo

The conceptual artist is careful about who he invites to the studio, but counts George Michael as one of his most interesting visitors

The painter can’t listen to music when she works because she can’t get the songs out of her head – so it’s baseball on the radio instead

The duo’s east London studio is, they say, the world’s cleanest, so that they can be as dirty as they want in their art

The painter prefers her studio to be tidy, but it doesn’t stay that way for long – and she’s completely oblivious to the smell of turpentine and oil paint

These days the California-based artist works nomadically in the Mojave Desert – which means playing host to the odd mountain lion

The Glasgow-based artist misses bumping into her studio neighbours in the corridors – but has a bag of volcanic ash to keep her company these days

The UK-based painter opens the door on his studio in Bath – where he sometimes dons a suit to work, he says, if not a tie

The sound artist carries his studio with him wherever he goes – on a 13-inch MacBook Pro

The London-based artist increasingly works with VR technology – but his studio still smells of textiles, which remind him of his childhood