The paint-pourer wields his tools in a converted warehouse in Peckham and thumbs through a Brice Marden catalogue for inspiration
The Scottish artist may not currently have a physical studio, but finds her dining room table to be a useful alternative
The photographer talks to Apollo about how she prepared to represent New Zealand at the Venice Biennale – all without a studio
The artist moves between studios in New York and Puerto Rico, where music – be it bossa nova or hip hop – is always playing in the background
The artist’s writhing sculptures have invaded unusual spaces, from central London to the set of ‘Wuthering Heights’
The artist has lived in Italy and Salzburg, studying under Oskar Kokoschka, but it’s in her peaceful studio in the Australian bush that she feels most at home
Working together for more than 30 years, this quartet of artists’ idea of a studio is an experimental as their art
In his Norfolk studio, the artist enjoys a refreshing sense of solitude after years spent in the close confines of London
The Irish artist is inspired by Philip Guston’s drawings in her London studio, which looks on to a rugby pitch and might be haunted by the ghost of Charlie Chaplin
The German artist enjoys the solitude of his New York studio, which offers a refuge from the bustle of the city
The Brazilian artist flicks through the novels of Clarice Lispector in her São Paulo studio, where a poster on the wall reminds visitors of the value of silence
The artist blasts country music at full volume and thumbs through a Nan Goldin catalogue while working at her home studio in Notting Hill Gate
The Libyan artist has studios in both Cairo and London, and finds the colours of each city seeping into her intricate textile work
In his east London studio, the Scottish artist blocks out the neighbourhood chaos with noise-cancelling headphones and tennis commentary
The Polish artist prefers to work alone in his Kraków studio, where the silence was recently disturbed by a visiting hornet
The only drawback of the Scottish painter’s New York studio is that he’ll have to leave it next year. In the meantime, he’s enjoying the quiet, undisturbed by a taxidermied pheasant
The painter and printmaker maintains a flexible routine at her church-like studio in Harare, which sits between a mountain and a dried-up riverbed
While working in his studio in Berlin, the German painter spends hours staring at the wall, listening to reggae and beholding his gogotte
The painter from Philadelphia still lives in the city, where she works in a converted high school, on an easel that belonged to an artist she grew up admiring
The artist works in near silence on her hyperreal paintings in her Berlin studio, which she keeps as empty as possible
The sculptor prefers not to have visitors in her sunlit studio in Brooklyn, where she tests materials and rereads books that have influenced her
When painting her gelatinous desserts, the artist is surrounded by jelly moulds, jellies and even a mummified mouse for company
The married artists live in rural Japan, surrounded by the clacking of bamboo in the forest and the sights of misty hills
The San Francisco-based photographer has moved into a new space, and she’s getting used to a more communal environment – but order is still all-important
