Interviews

Gold Icon The sonic visions of Oliver Beer

The artist tells Apollo how he harnesses the natural resonance of spaces, from caves to tube stations, to create his innovative paintings and installations

31 Mar 2025

The émigrés who made Britain modern – an interview with Owen Hatherley

Owen Hatherley talks to Apollo about his new book, ‘The Alienation Effect’, about the Central European artists and intellectuals who fled fascism in the 1930s and came to Britain

27 Mar 2025

The set pieces of Wilhelm Sasnal

For his new film based on a novel by Robert Walser, the Polish artist created copies of cubist works. He talks to Apollo about the ties between painting and film-making

21 Mar 2025

Gold Icon ‘I was so absolutely into the villains’ – an interview with Alex Da Corte

The American artist explains how he looks to his own past to create his devilishly inventive films, paintings and installations

13 Mar 2025

Gold Icon Kate de Rothschild’s approach to quality control

The Old Master drawings collector has described herself as ‘an undisciplined cockapoo’ when it comes to buying – but each piece must be of the highest calibre

3 Mar 2025

In the studio with… Catherine Wagner

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

27 Feb 2025

Gold Icon ‘It’s like they are your children’ – Krishna Choudhary talks about his collection of jewels

Choudhary’s array of Mughal-era jewellery and artefacts is intertwined with the history of Jaipur – and helps inspire his own contemporary designs

3 Feb 2025

The uneasy business of being an American artist

Rachel Cohen talks to Apollo about the reissue of ‘A Chance Meeting’, her inventive account of more than a century of artistic endeavour in the United States

29 Jan 2025

Gold Icon ‘I’m not worried about going stagnant or out of fashion’ – an interview with Jake Grewal

Ahead of an exhibition at Studio Voltaire, the painter talks to Apollo about queerness, his obsession with charcoal and why he loves the work of Keith Vaughan

11 Jan 2025

In the studio with… Jakkai Siributr

The Thai textile artist prefers silence in his studio so he can listen to his thoughts – which proves tricky when his dogs are hanging around

8 Jan 2025

In the studio with… Chrissie Hynde

The rockstar-turned-artist revels in her solitude and shuts the door to everyone except her dog when she’s in the studio – which is also her flat

5 Dec 2024

In the studio with… Stanley Donwood

Best known for his designs for Radiohead’s album covers, the artist enjoys the sea air but laments the fug of wood varnish in his Brighton studio

28 Nov 2024

Gold Icon ‘It’s a decorative art, it’s more than fashion’ – Francesca Galloway talks about collecting couture

A leading dealer in Indian paintings and textiles, she also has an extensive collection of 20th-century haute couture – and the two seem to go together nicely

26 Nov 2024

Gold Icon ‘I like to capture primal sorts of things’ – an interview with Jeff Wall

The Canadian artist is best known for his large, tableau-like photographs. In a year of several international exhibitions, he talks Craig Burnett through the complex process of making them

25 Nov 2024

In the studio with… Ai-Da

The AI-powered humanoid robot talks Apollo through her studio routine, which involves listening to Chopin and pondering the strangeness of her own existence

4 Nov 2024

Gold Icon What makes Christian Marclay really tick?

As his 24-hour film The Clock returns to MoMA, Christian Marclay talks about working with sound and images – and bridging the divide between the two artistic worlds

1 Nov 2024

Gold Icon The young collectors on the hunt for Old Masters

New York-based collectors Domenico Lanzara and Sean Imfeld speak to Apollo about their obsession with Old Master drawings

22 Oct 2024

Gold Icon The cosmic art of Liliane Lijn

The artist has pursued her interest in light, motion and myth across drawing, sculpture and performance for six decades, but it’s her openness to new ideas that really defines her work

19 Oct 2024

In the studio with… Pauline Curnier Jardin

When working in her suntrap of a studio in Rome, the artist enjoys people-watching, listening to jazz and admiring an antique manhole cover made of travertine

3 Oct 2024

Scotland the brave – an interview with the director of Studio Voltaire

As the cutting-edge arts organisation in south London turns 30, Joe Scotland talks to Apollo about class, community and contemporary art

26 Sep 2024

Tamsin Wimhurst: the woman who saves the extraordinary homes of ordinary people

The social historian who bought the David Parr House in Cambridge finds herself drawn to fantastical interiors in unexpected settings

6 Sep 2024

The tennis coach who’s having a ball collecting abstract art

James Trotman, who coaches Britain’s current #1 tennis player, talks to Apollo about his love of modern British painting and why art and tennis are a good match

27 Aug 2024

Gold Icon ‘I wanted conversations, I wanted people, I wanted the play’ – an interview with Hildegard Bechtler

Creating the sets for plays at the National Theatre, the Barbican and the Royal Court is no mean feat. The German-born set designer speaks to Apollo about how she works her magic

22 Aug 2024

Eric Fischl enters the third dimension

The painter has turned his hand to virtual reality, using cutting-edge technology to pursue ‘a painter’s idea of sculpture’. He talks to Apollo about the attractions of VR

15 Aug 2024