Ren Ito on Making a Small Object Hold Its Own Weight
A conversation about cardboard wedges, an unsuccessful plaster trial and why a prototype should remain easy to question after it begins to look finished.
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Studio conversations
Five fictional conversations follow decisions inside a practice: testing a project, noticing a detail, working through doubt and finding a question that can sustain another image.
Leyla Mott Draws the Same View from an Unreliable Memory
Field drawing becomes a conversation between what is in front of the artist and what remains after leaving. Leyla Mott explains the gaps she keeps.
Read the storyNora Fen on Doubt, Useful Criticism and Knowing What to Revise
Public lettering carries a confident voice, but making it involves less certain decisions. Nora Fen describes a practical way to hear criticism without surrendering the work.
Read the storyElin Rook Finds a Portrait’s Starting Point Beside the Face
Before Face as Weather, Elin Rook discusses reflected colour, a failed lighting trial and the conversation that makes a staged portrait a shared construction.
Read the storyAfter Ordinary Spectra, Cassian Vale Tests a Gesture Without a Figure
Cassian Vale looks back at the summer exhibition and forward to a new studio experiment, asking how a turn, a gap and a change of colour can carry movement.
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Give a good conversation room
Think through a reading, discussion or small gathering among the ideas of a gallery programme. Start with people, timing and the kind of attention the event needs.
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