I am making enormous sculptures derived from overlooked cultures. It has to do with what we consider important and with refocusing the gaze
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Art in this country is expected to be funny, satirical, shocking or clever. But if it gets too personal or doesn’t fall under ‘kitchen sink realism’, then it becomes ‘too close’ for some people.
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Dean Kelland has spent almost five years making art with inmates at Europe’s only fully therapeutic jail – with a little help from Elvis and David Bowie
On the eve of her first major UK show, she talks race, representation and the human spirit that unites us
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At Spike Island, Bristol, the artist captures the flux of queer existence in collages of gender non-conforming figures throughout time
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Blending science and the supernatural, high art and gothic horror, Hamad Butt made work that was literally dangerous. He is one of the stars of Tate Britain’s rehang
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At Tate Britain, the artist known for sumptuous works on fraught subjects like racism and homophobia finally receives a career retrospective in his own country.
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The British painter is still in his studio, 365 days a year. In a late turn to self-portraiture, he has turned his scrutiny on himself.
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By infiltrating Securitas, Disneyland and Deloitte, Pilvi Takala’s art thrives on creating toe-curlingly awkward situations
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Twenty years on from the Iraq War, Tim Shaw RA tells Elizabeth Fullerton about his new public monument reminding us of the horrors of conflict
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The artist’s interest in esoteric spirituality used to provoke art-world ridicule. That is changing, along with the mind of a Foreign Office staffer who attended one of her performances
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