A Seat at Kate McCrickard’s Table
Our Head of Curation Phin Jennings visits Kate McCrickard in Paris to speak about how memory, biography and politics find their way into the artist’s work.
Artists
Rachel Mercer: "The painterly surface becomes a conduit for emotion and feeling."
We caught up with contemporary artist Rachel Mercer on overlapping disciplines, capturing the "presentness" of a moment through direct mark-making, the multi-dimensional nature of memory, and more.
The Senses and Biophilia | Laura Basterra Sanz
"I’ve learned that relying solely on intellect to choose colours can prevent the magic of unexpected discoveries during the process—especially when mixing colours in response to the moment."
"I like chicken" and Other Stories with Sabrina Shah
Sabrina Shah's artwork delves into a variety of rich themes, using familiar cartoon characters and popular tropes as metaphors for emotions, personality traits, and human compulsions. Her work navigates the dynamic tension between light and dark, often employing playful motifs like games, wordplay, and storytelling. By blending whimsical elements with deeper, introspective meaning, Shah offers layered interpretations of the struggle to simply be human.
Neon Art: Interview with Laura Benetton
"Art and science, for me, are two sides of the same coin, each informing and enriching the other. My work with neon is deeply rooted in this fusion, where the precision of scientific principles meets the emotional expressiveness of art."
Fleur Patrick: Collaborating with the Paint
“The paintings become a record of a battle,” she tells me: a battle between portrayal and distortion. She exercises limited power over the latter, meaning that she can never be quite sure how a painting will turn out until it is finished; “I relinquish control and allow the paint to behave according to its own material tendencies.”
Kineasthesia: Rémi Delaplace on Gravitation, Trajectory, and Levitation
Through abstract compositions, Rémi Delaplace explores the notions of gravitation, trajectory, and levitation. His paintings create spatial narratives that evoke the dynamics of bodies and objects in space.
Kinaesthesia: Miguel Ripoll on Art in the AI Era
Rise Art met with Miguel Ripoll to discuss his exploration and subversion of the long-established themes and traditions of artistic praxis and how he aims to navigate our increasingly complex and hyper-connected existence.
Kinaesthesia: Zhou Yiyan
We spoke with multidisciplinary artist Zhou Yiyan who, keenly interested in illustrating the fluidity of movement and bodily expression, explores the coexistence of opposites and the transformation of materials through sculpture, drawing, music, and dance.
Sue Kennington: "It has nothing to do with feeling, it has everything to do with precision."
For over ten years, Sue Kennington has been developing a colour library as part of an ongoing investigation into the limits of colour and light within contemporary painting. “I’ve always been really interested in systems. It seems to be the human condition—we are always looking for an answer, trying to make sense of things.”