The artist finds solace in Annie Ernaux and a booming Tibetan sound bowl while working on his playful sculptures in the Austrian countryside
The artist takes inspiration from Billie Holiday, El Greco and a pair of old Indian puppets when painting large-scale canvases in his East London studio
Despite the painstaking research that underpins the artist’s work, there’s nothing dry about its outcomes – as visitors to the Canadian Pavilion in Venice will discover
The director of the 2024 Biennale talks to Apollo about the challenges the event faces and why he is sanguine about the changing political tides
When he’s not using stadiums to realise his visions, the artist welcomes all manner of visitors, from school kids to tuk-tuk drivers, in his studio-cum-gallery in northern Ghana
Betty Sims-Hilditch explains how a background in set design and a commitment to emerging artists inform her new roaming gallery project, Artground
The American artist and academic gets up at 5.30am and finds inspiration in moths, dinosaurs and Dante when working in her barn in Connecticut
The Ugandan-born artist treats her sculpture studio as a strict place of work – except for the occasional glass of Japanese whisky
The San Franciscan painter and ceramicist uses jazz, podcasts and Bay Area nature to help him create fantastical anthropomorphic works out of clay
Behind the artist’s enjoyably exuberant artworks is a serious concern with rewiring language and remaking bodies
The artist works from her home in the wilds of northern Finland, where she sews textile pieces beside a wood-burning stove to the sound of Sami radio
The Haitian-Canadian artist surrounds himself with unlikely objects to spark his imagination, books about drawing, and about 25 different types of tea
The artist layers a multitude of marks to create palimpsestic paintings and prints, but the results are far from purely abstract
The South African photographer believes that an artist’s studio can be a hotel room, a playground, a kitchen, a toilet – or even a crime scene
Henning Hoesch is a winemaker with a habit of making distinctions that extends to his collection of Old Master drawings
The Polish artist who works with Elon Musk and takes her robot for walks believes in technology, but has other idols too
One Woman Show is a novel about a socialite’s progress through the 20th century, told in the style of wall labels you might find at the Met
The artist’s playful and delicate works, often painted on book jackets, conceal a serious interest in animals, absurdity and art history
In 2018, the British artist looked back with Martin Gayford on Pop art, politics and leaving London for a life in the country
The multidisciplinary artist begins her work in bed each morning and spends her afternoons cycling to meetings, equipped with two large saddlebags
In 2015, the Californian artist spoke to Jonathan Griffin about the light and space installations that span his 60-year career
The custodian of the largest collection of occult objects in Europe explains the enduring appeal of all things supernatural
Among the collector’s many objects is one of the most important holdings of antique textiles in private hands
The film-maker Neville d’Almeida recalls his friendship with Hélio Oiticica and how they broke down the barriers between work and play and between film and art
