Benjamin Spiers

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Gillian Wearing

"It really opened up to me how much my thinking of the world was so narrow, and that any view of someone else changes when you give them the openness that the sign series was able to offer."

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Ragnar Kjartansson

"I was lucky to be raised in the darkness of the theatre."

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Simon Starling

“A-A’, B-B’, which will take place both in Glasgow and Turin, feels very much like a project for the age of Brexit – a divided painting, a divided car, two venues bridging an imminent divide.”

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Yinka Shonibare

"They are hybrid figures. They are part Victorian, part African, part Dutch. They are an expression of the identity of a contemporary post-colonial birth."

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Conrad Shawcross

“The more the Artist loses control of its meaning the better the art is.”

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Flora Yukhnovich

“Although my work draws on Art History, the issues I’m interested in are generally rooted in the present.”

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Richard Patterson

“The YBA thing wasn’t exactly a movement, but it was the last and closest thing we’ve had to a movement in recent times where a whole crop of artists emerged together apparently responding to a mood and sequence of events.”

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Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst

"AI is just us, in aggregate—it is beautiful and requires rethinking how we arrange life."

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Jim Lambie

“The rhythm of the colours seemed to pulse and move, creating a visual beat through the space.”

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Jules de Balincourt

"I am not sure how the Trump phenomenon will manifest in my work but I do know it is impossible for anyone to negate it and its ability to submerge into our subconscious.."

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Jon Burgerman

“I certainly need a hug right now but a hug never lasts as long as I need it to. Take me back to the womb, shield me from all the chaos and nightmares!”

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Bedwyr Williams

“Places like Frieze, it’s like an acid trip: the plastic surgery, the gross clothes, the money. I’m not making a judgement, I’m just saying “bloody hell can we all see this!”

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Eva Rothschild

“it is the first time that everything that surrounds the making of art has stopped which is both daunting, when this is your livelihood, but also a real focus puller on the primal human need to make art.”