Interviews

The duo’s east London studio is, they say, the world’s cleanest, so that they can be as dirty as they want in their art

The painter prefers her studio to be tidy, but it doesn’t stay that way for long – and she’s completely oblivious to the smell of turpentine and oil paint

These days the California-based artist works nomadically in the Mojave Desert – which means playing host to the odd mountain lion

The Glasgow-based artist misses bumping into her studio neighbours in the corridors – but has a bag of volcanic ash to keep her company these days

The UK-based painter opens the door on his studio in Bath – where he sometimes dons a suit to work, he says, if not a tie

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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