In his east London studio, the Scottish artist blocks out the neighbourhood chaos with noise-cancelling headphones and tennis commentary
On the eve of a major US survey, the artist talks to Apollo about decorating statues and the ornamental side of the British Empire
The Polish artist prefers to work alone in his Kraków studio, where the silence was recently disturbed by a visiting hornet
The only drawback of the Scottish painter’s New York studio is that he’ll have to leave it next year. In the meantime, he’s enjoying the quiet, undisturbed by a taxidermied pheasant
The painter and printmaker maintains a flexible routine at her church-like studio in Harare, which sits between a mountain and a dried-up riverbed
Eleanor Pinfield, director of Art on the Underground, talks to Apollo about the excitements and challenges of commissioning art for a subterranean audience
At Hatchlands Park in Surrey, Alec Cobbe lives with the likes of Guercino, Allori and Titian – a fitting collection for the Renaissance man he is
The Old Master drawings collector has described herself as ‘an undisciplined cockapoo’ when it comes to buying – but each piece must be of the highest calibre
The broadcaster and new president of the Twentieth Century Society talks about conserving the built environment and making people feel it matters
While working in his studio in Berlin, the German painter spends hours staring at the wall, listening to reggae and beholding his gogotte
Nicola Lees, director of the Aspen Art Museum, tells Apollo how the ‘Serpentine in the mountains’ is turning artists into leaders
The Norwegian monarch may be the subject of Warhol silkscreens, but when it comes to collecting she looks much closer to home
Craig Burnett talks to the Canadian artist whose enigmatic sculptures, collages and silent videos encourage viewers to think for themselves
The artist talks to Apollo about sifting through the museum’s collection to piece together how mental disorders were experienced and treated in the 19th century
The painter from Philadelphia still lives in the city, where she works in a converted high school, on an easel that belonged to an artist she grew up admiring
The artist works in near silence on her hyperreal paintings in her Berlin studio, which she keeps as empty as possible
The artist talks to Apollo about how paint can conceal any number of mysteries in a seemingly straightforward portrait
The sculptor prefers not to have visitors in her sunlit studio in Brooklyn, where she tests materials and rereads books that have influenced her
The Singaporean playwright talks to Apollo about dramatising the return of a fictional statue from the British Museum to China
The artist talks to Apollo about his latest paintings, which are filling in for two works by the Old Master in San Giorgio Maggiore
As her largest museum show to date opens, the Scottish artist talks to Samuel Reilly about her tender paintings of women at work
When painting her gelatinous desserts, the artist is surrounded by jelly moulds, jellies and even a mummified mouse for company
In her book, ‘Frieze Frame’, A.E. Stallings collects the responses of poets and artists to the marbles since the early 19th century. She tells Apollo why they now deserve a new lease of cultural life
The married artists live in rural Japan, surrounded by the clacking of bamboo in the forest and the sights of misty hills
