Interviews

Bhupen Khakhar (1934–2003) was an acclaimed artist both in India and internationally. Active from the 1960s, he was part of a vibrant new wave of narrative painting and figuration by artists in his home country including Gulam Sheikh and Sudhir Patwardhan that became known as the Baroda School. After early experiments with pop art, Khakhar, who was […]

At 78, Howard Hodgkin has slowed a bit, requiring a wheelchair lately to move about, but he remains quick as ever to speak his mind and, judging by the San Diego Museum of Art’s exhibition of his recent work, compelled as ever to paint the wealth of memories and sensations that occupy it.

To coincide with a retrospective exhibition of his work (at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Tate Britain and Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid), Hodgkin reflected on works by Seurat in the Courtauld institute of Art Gallery in an interview with John-Paul Stonard, for Art and Architecture.

Extract from an interview with Michael White regarding Hodgkin’s design work for the stage.

A transcript of John Tusa’s interview with Howard Hodgkin for BBC Radio 3.

Interview between Alan Woods and Howard Hodgkin from Transcript, Vol. 3, issue 2, 1998, ed. Alan Woods, published by the School of Fine Art, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, University of Dundee, Scotland.

Frances Spalding interviewed Howard Hodgkin for The Charleston Magazine (a publication dedicated to the history, work and interrelationships of the Bloomsbury Group), which she edits, issue 6, Winter/Spring 1992.

In continuing the tradition of inviting a person eminent in the arts to select their favourite objects in the V&A, it seemed appropriate this year to ask an artist to cast his critical eye over the collections. It is hoped that the shift in perspective might be an interesting one, following as it does the […]

Jack Shirreff, Howard Hodgkin’s master printer at 107 Workshop, Wiltshire, is retiring. He sold 40 of his printer’s proofs of works on which they collaborated over the last 24 years at Christie’s South Kensingon on 14 September 2010. Alexandra Gill, Head of Prints at Christie’s South Kensington, interviews Howard Hodgkin.

Recorded for the Landseer/Arts Council film, ‘Howard Hodgkin’ (1982), This version was edited in collaboration with the artist, and appeared in the catalogue published by the Whitechapel Gallery in 1984, in connection with the touring exhibition organised by the British Council, ‘Howard Hodgkin: Forty Paintings, 1973-84’, which began at the Venice Biennale and toured to the Phillips Collection, Washington D.C., Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, the Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover and the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London.