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Review of Bedwyr Williams exhibition Nimrod at Ceri Hand Gallery, Liverpool.

Simon Morrissey cuts to the chase with Cornelia Parker and finds out how she has fought commercial pressures to follow her own artistic agenda.

Contemporary re-enactment, art event or memorial? David Butler gives an insider account of Jeremy Deller’s ambitious Artangel Times commission.

Cornelia Parker outlines the main changes she’s experienced as an artist over the last 20 years including the opening of Tate Modern.

Collaborative duo Forest + Found discuss their role as artists in “thinking and engaging with our natural resources and the environment.”

Larry Achiampong reflects on the role of art as “a place to conversate, to agree, to disagree, to hope, to dream, to imagine, to debate.”

Harold Offeh outlines how his success as an artist “has been built on the hard efforts, work and activism of previous generations.”

Barby Asante reflects on what has changed for artists in the last two decades, and on the “deep and painful work” of decolonising the art worlds.

Mark Titchner describes the role of art in engendering empathy and how artists “hold up a muddy mirror to the world”.

Artist collective Rat Trap outline their hopes for the future of the arts in Wales and consider “how to keep striving for utopian visions”.

Bedwyr Williams considers the role of art and the main changes he’s experienced as an artist over the last 20 years.

Jasleen Kaur discusses her shift from craft into visual art and her deep investment “in art as a means of speaking or coming into voice.”