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In this edition of Community Voices, John Gayer & Juan Ortiz-Apuy continue the conversation initiated by Ortis-Apuy's exhibition "Coming to Grips" at YYZ Artists Outlet in Toronto. To watch this discussion on the ISC's YouTube Channel simply click on the image. To read the interview that appeared in Sculpture Magazine, use this link; https://sculpturemagazine.art/the-agency-of-things-a-conversation-with-juan-ortiz-apuy/
Last August, I was able to sit down and talk with Ukrainian artists Zhanna Kadyrova, while she and a number of technicians were in the final stages of installing "Metsä/The Forest," her 2025 IHME Helsinki Commission. The interview has just been published in Sculpture Magazine's March/April 2026 issue. Kadyrova is also representing Ukraine at this year's La Biennale de Venezia in Italy (click image to access text)..
Sculpture Magazine has published my review of Antti Oikarinen's "Introspective" online https://sculpturemagazine.art/antti-oikarinen/) on 25 February 2026 and in May/June print edition. (Click on the image to access the text.)
Untitled (2026), images of several small tondos made using various clays with additions of graphite, paint and glitter, laser print on card, 10 x 15 cm, submitted to 'Art of the Hand', Chemnitz, Germany
Leaves upon leaves (date unknown), dry transfer on colour photo, metal frame, 12.5 x 12.5 cm. This image of this old experiment is the first time any aspect of the work is being exhibited, now as part of The Arnolfini Mini[e]MailArt e-mail art project no. 72, and as part of The Arnolfini Archives. (Click image to see it and more works from the project.)
My interview with Juan Ortiz-Apuy about "Coming to Grips," his exhibition showing until 6 December 2025 at YYZ Artists Outlet in Toronto, is now available on Sculpture Magazine / sculpturemagazine.art (click image to access text). Photo: Toni Hafkenscheid. Courtesy Juan Ortiz-Apuy.
The November/December 2025 issue of Sculpture Magazine includes my interview "Disparate Realities: A Conversation with Monira Al Qadiri." (Clicking on the cover image takes you to the interview.)
My review of Tobias Bradford's "Health and Safety" at Sinne, was published online on 8 August 2025 (https://sculpturemagazine.art/tobias-bradford/) and in Sculpture Magazine's November/December 2025 print edition. (Click image to access text.) Installation view of the exhibition with To be held in place, 2025, mixed media and animatronic sculpture. Photo: Ahmed Alalousi, Courtesy Sinne
My review of Keith Tyson's "Universal Symphony" — showing until 26 October 2025 at Serlachius in Mänttä, Finland — has been published by Sculpture Magazine (click on image to access the text). Keith Tyson, installation view of “Universal Symphony,” 2025. Photo: Serlachius, Sampo Linkoneva
The September-October 2025 issue of The Visual Artists News Sheet (VAN) includes my interview with Clíodhna Timoney during her HIAP residency in Helsinki.
(Click the image to access the interview.)
My interview with Emma Jääskeläinen, Family Matters: A Conversation with Emma Jääskeläinen, was published at sculpturemagazine.art on 5 August 2025 (click the image to access the text). Installation view of “Slo Mo Mother,” Vleeshal, Middelburg, the Netherlands, 2023. Photo: Gunnar Meier
Sculpture Magazine's July/August 2025 issue includes a brief, but very illuminating text, about the challenges of being a sculptor and a mother (click image to access text). My interview with the artist was published at sculpturemagazine.art on 5 August 2025.
My interview with Swedish artist Roland Persson appears in the May/June 2025 issue of Sculpture Magazine. (Clicking on the image of the magazine's cover takes you to the interview.) The cover features his sculpture "Animal from the Dream House" (2023), image courtesy Ostrobothnian Museum in Vaasa, Finland / photo: Noora Lehtovuori.
