artist studio
In the studio with… Joana Vasconcelos
The Lisbon-based artist once invited the fashion designer John Galliano to join the studio’s Bollywood dance rehearsal
In the studio with… Mariana Castillo Deball
The Mexican artist’s studio is filled with books and tiny pieces of detritus that have fallen off her artworks or that she finds on her travels
In the studio with… Nikita Gale
Downtime is important for the artist in downtown Los Angeles, who has a figurine from a children’s television show keep watch over their studio
In the studio with… Torkwase Dyson
The New York-based artist listens to experimental jazz and audiobooks about physics, and likes to keep her studio floor clean enough for bare feet
In the studio with… Christopher Le Brun
The painter begins his day by sneaking up on his paintings in an attempt to see them afresh and completes them at night when they’re looking their worst
In the studio with… Hew Locke
The British sculptor keeps haunting relics of the colonial era in his London studio – and soothes himself with audiobooks while he works
In the studio with… Emma Talbot
The British artist keeps long hours and prefers to work alone, listening to the music of Alice Coltrane and Stevie Wonder or lately, the Italian radio
In the studio with… Amie Siegel
The American artist accumulates a mass of materials while working but when she finishes a project, her space must be cleared to begin afresh
In the studio with… Raqib Shaw
The painter of bejewelled, fantastical scenes has created his very own urban paradise filled with birdsong and the delicate fragrances of seasonal blooms
In the studio with… Paulo Nimer Pjota
The Brazilian artist works with materials he retrieves from the streets – but his studio space must be kept clean as a shrine
Why antiquities matter so much in a galaxy far, far away