Interviews

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

Exposing the colonial past – an interview with Sammy Baloji

Taking photographs as a starting point, the artist unearths the hidden connections between European colonialism and modern-day Africa

1 Aug 2024

Gold Icon Jeremy Frey weaves new worlds

The seventh-generation basketry artist is bringing new dynamism to an ancient craft

28 Jul 2024

In the studio with… Eduardo Terrazas

The Mexican artist, known for his woven works that borrow from folk-art traditions, listens to Bach and Rosalía while working in his studio in Colonia Roma, Mexico City

24 Jul 2024

In the studio with… Joy Labinjo

The artist observes a long working day in her studio in Harringay, but enjoys listening to bashment, riding her Peloton and thumbing through books by Kerry James Marshall

15 Jul 2024

‘It’s about what’s in your heart and soul. Technology’s just some tool’ – an interview with Bill Viola (1951–2024)

The pioneering video artist has died at the age of 73. In this interview from our March 2014 issue, he talked to Apollo about how his work grapples with some of life’s biggest questions

15 Jul 2024

In the studio with… Wendy Sharpe

The artist has all she needs in her capacious studio in Sydney, where her artist partner, some audiobooks and a Mexican papier-mâché skeleton keep her company

6 Jun 2024

‘My art’s got to be a carnival, I’m there with you’ – an interview with Alvaro Barrington

Ahead of his Tate Britain commission, the artist tells Apollo about being inspired by Tupac and Cy Twombly and wanting to involve communities in everything he makes

24 May 2024

The revolutionary textiles of Britta Marakatt-Labba

The influential Sami artist talks to Apollo about how she has always woven politics and protest into her work

23 May 2024