Interviews

Emeka Ogboh in his Berlin studio – the physical one, anyway.

In the studio with… Emeka Ogboh

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

5 Aug 2021
Photo: Alexander Coggin

In the studio with… Shezad Dawood

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

26 Jul 2021
Photo: K. Y. Cheng/South China Morning Post via Getty Images

In the studio with… Shahzia Sikander

The artist’s miniature paintings aren’t as diminutive as they may sound, but the magnifying glass attached to her worktable is still absolutely essential

21 Jul 2021
Victoria Miro London, Venice/Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong, Seoul and London; © Do Ho Suh

In the studio with… Do Ho Suh

For the past six years, the artist and his children have been building a magical world out of modelling clay in his London studio – but they’re running out of room

12 Jul 2021
Michael Landy photographed at his exhibition at Firstsite, Colchester, 2021.

In the studio with… Michael Landy

Unsurprisingly, the artist who once destroyed all his possessions keeps an entirely clutter-free studio

5 Jul 2021
Photo: Donavon Smallwood

In the studio with… Reginald Sylvester II

The New York-based painter loves working alone in his studio, but its high ceilings have encouraged him to work on larger canvases – and he’s running out of room

30 Jun 2021
Betty Tompkins in her studio, photographed in June 2021

In the studio with… Betty Tompkins

During the pandemic the pioneering feminist painter has retreated to her studio in rural Pennsylvania, where she has truly embraced the quiet life

21 Jun 2021
Mandy El-Sayegh photographed in her studio in 2020.

In the studio with… Mandy El-Sayegh

The unlikeliest objects in the London-based artist’s studio? Either the sex toys or the taxidermy collection, she says

15 Jun 2021
Peter Blake photographed at home in 2015.

The king of collage – an interview with Peter Blake

The artist talks to Martin Gayford about a life spent pushing the possibilities of collage, from his Sgt. Pepper cover to recent digital experiments

12 Jun 2021
Chantal Joffe in the studio.

In the studio with… Chantal Joffe

The painter offers a glimpse of her canalside studio in London, where she works alone save for her portrait sitters – and a stuffed toy camel on wheels

7 Jun 2021
Sheila Hicks at an exhibition of her work at the Chaumont-sur-Loire castle in 2017.

In the studio with… Sheila Hicks

When the weather permits, the artist builds her textile sculptures in the cobblestone courtyard of her studio in the heart of Paris

31 May 2021
Samson Kambalu at Magdalen College, Oxford.

In the studio with… Samson Kambalu

At Modern Art Oxford, the artist has set the stage for a ceremony initiating visitors into a utopian world of racial justice

25 May 2021

Salvage value: the rescue missions of Michael Rakowitz

The Iraqi-American artist talks to Apollo about making an anti-war memorial in Margate – and about ‘problem-solving and trouble-making’ with his art

23 May 2021
Taking after Turner: Timothy Spall.

After playing Turner and Lowry, now Timothy Spall has taken up painting for real

Having picked up the paintbrush for film roles, the actor found that he couldn’t stop painting – and he now has a solo show of his own

21 May 2021
Bedwyr Williams with the Science Museum Group Collection at the National Collections Centre in Wiltshire. The artist is currently working with local audiences to create a film and accompanying book as a response to the collection, which will go in view at the collection centre when it opens to the public in 2024.

In the studio with… Bedwyr Williams

The Welsh artist’s studio looks out on to the mountains of Snowdonia – idyllic were it not for the children screaming in the playground next door, he says

18 May 2021
Two of Julian Opie’s self-portraits, both titled ‘Julian’, from 2012 and 2013 (left to right).

In the studio with… Julian Opie

The one tool Julian Opie could least do without? His eyes, he says – although he’d be pretty lost without his computer too

10 May 2021
Heather Phillipson in her (physical) studio.

In the studio with… Heather Phillipson

The artist, poet and musician Heather Phillipson may live and work in London – but her main studio, she says, is in her head

6 May 2021
Hurvin Anderson in his studio.

In the studio with… Hurvin Anderson

The painter is currently commuting to a studio in his garden and has an encyclopaedia of palm trees close at hand

26 Apr 2021
Antony Gormley photographed by Stephen White in his studio in London in March 2021.

Antony Gormley has always believed that sculpture can change the world – and that faith is firmer than ever

An interview with Antony Gormley – public servant, Romantic artist and utopian thinker

24 Apr 2021

‘You don’t have to man-manage artists’ – Maro Itoje talks African art

The England rugby star is presenting an art exhibition in London exploring Africa’s contribution to world culture

23 Apr 2021
Idris Khan photographed at Victoria Miro, London, in 2021.

In the studio with… Idris Khan

While preparing for his latest show at Victoria Miro, the artist listened to Max Richter’s remix of the Four Seasons on repeat

20 Apr 2021

In the studio with… Caroline Walker

The Scottish painter Caroline Walker offers a glimpse inside her north London studio – where she’s kept company by slugs, spiders and cuddly toys

15 Apr 2021

In the studio with… Rana Begum

The artist recently moved into a new studio overlooking a cemetery in Hackney – the view’s great, but there is a minor mosquito problem

14 Apr 2021
Katherine Parkinson as Mary in ‘Sitting’.

Sitting witty: Katherine Parkinson reimagines portrait painting for the small screen

For Katherine Parkinson’s TV play about portrait sitters, Roxana Halls ‘ghost-painted’ a series of portraits – a demanding role, as they tell Apollo

30 Mar 2021