Articles

Studios

Rebecca Salter PRA

Opinion

< 3 years ago

“Who knows how many new talents will pick up a pencil, brush or iPad in isolation?”

These are difficult times for everyone – but art thrives in a crisis, says Rebecca Salter PRA, as we launch a new series of artists and architects documenting their creativity in isolation.
, Photograph of Matisse painting the model Zita at 1 Place Charles-Félix, Nice

RA Exhibitions

> 5 years ago

Matisse’s studio: “an interior world of his own making”

With our Matisse in the Studio exhibition now open, Nicholas Watkins reveals the artist’s working practice – orchestrating objects and models in his French ateliers to explore colour, line and space.
, Illustrations by Ping Zhu

Opinion

> 5 years ago

Six ways to tackle the London studio crisis

The artist’s studio faces extinction in the capital if the property market continues to price artists out. But change might be afoot, reports architectural critic Hugh Pearman, as he explores six possible solutions.

Varda Caivano

RA Exhibitions

< 6 years ago

The studios behind the Summer Exhibition

How are the capital’s artists using their working spaces today? In the spirit of this year’s Summer Exhibition, which is encouraging artists who have not shown before at the RA, Skye Sherwin visits first-time exhibitors at work to see what they are bringing to the Academy.
Tony Cragg, Points of View

Artists

< 6 years ago

Tony Cragg: “sculpture is a vital sign”

How do you make work indoors that’s destined for a life outdoors? With the opening of his exhibition at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, the artist discusses the realities of making art surrounded by rats, sunshine and Henry Moore.
Cornell's stamp collection, from his Utopia Parkway studio

RA Exhibitions

> 7 years ago

Inside Joseph Cornell’s studio

Packed full with “sketchboxes” and folders, carefully arranged in his own unique filing system, Joseph Cornell’s studio was like a laboratory for his art experiments. The curator of our show takes us inside.
Kiefer’s towers punctuate the parched landscape around Kiefer’s studio complex at Barjac in southern France, 2012

Artists

> 8 years ago

Kiefer and Chipperfield talk space and creativity

In a discussion chaired by the RA’s Tim Marlow, Anselm Kiefer and David Chipperfield RA explore the ways art and architecture interact in Kiefer’s practice.
Terry Setch RA walks in front of the cliffs of Penarth Beach in South Wales, where he gathers the materials for his paintings

Artists

< 9 years ago

Sam Phillips meets Terry Setch RA

Continuing our series on artists’ epiphanies, Sam Phillips visits the Welsh beach that transformed Setch’s art.