If you happen to follow all of my various activities, you will notice a recurring theme at the moment: INTERVIEWS!! I am in the throes of interview-o-mania…
I’ve just posted the latest This ‘Me’ of Mine artist interview with Anthony Boswell called Living in the Constant . Anthony speaks eloquently about issues of time, ‘the loop’, the longing of melancholia and searching for intimacy from the familiar. It is a lovely interview to accompany his thoughtful blog Beyond Painting: The dream of Arcadia here on Artists Talking.
I am also working on three other interviews at the same time with artists Mel Titmuss, Sarah Hervey, and Shireen Qureshi and will be starting a fourth shortly with Sandra Crisp. Waiting in the wings are Kate Murdoch, Annabel Dover, Edd Pearman, Cathy Lomax, Julie Cockburn and Hayley Harrison. While I’m conducting these interviews, I’m being interviewed by Becky Huff Hunter. The result is lots of research, footnoting and editing!
And just to prove I know something about interviewing (I say with tongue in cheek!), I wrote ‘The Art of Interviewing’ for my Rebecca Projects blog. I actually really love doing interviews because it gives me a chance to do some in depth research on artists and curators, (in case you haven’t seen the interview I did with Alexis Vaillant last year for Whitehot Magazine) and to exercise my critical thinking muscles in a slightly different way to thinking about my own work, a peer critique or doing an exhibition review.
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