Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Alice Tait - Studio 11



Describe your work

My desk is piled with drawings from life, hand drawn type, inky marks and a scanner.


How did you come to do the work that you do?


There was never a question of doing anything else. When I was little I used to read Famous Five and plan how I’d do the illustrations if it were me.

Where do you look for inspiration?


The sky from Great Western studios windows.

What is your favourite place?


Where ever Sean and Roger are.

If you could own one piece of work what would it be?

An Emily Young please! Or a grumpy man from either Georges Grosz or Ben Shahn.

What is your favourite website?

www.audible.co.uk This year I have discovered talking books! I am on the brink of an obsession with Poirot.

Alice Tait

Thursday, November 20, 2008

Kate Banazi - ex studio 28, now in Sydney



1. Describe your work

Screenprinting, drawing, painting and sometimes sewing.

2. How did you come to be doing the work that you do?

My parents were old style graphic designers and typographers so taught me to wield a scalpel and draw a straight line from a very young age. My apparent skill should have been channelled towards brain surgery, quite obviously, but that was soon scuppered when I fainted whilst dissecting a rat at school. There after I swore only to slice paper. And the odd bit of self surgery.

3. Where do you look for inspiration?

Under bridges and up mountains. Specifically Anzac bridge and the Blue Mountains.

4. What is your favourite place?

Tasmania or the top of Parliament Hill, London.
Quite extreme in their differences.

5. If you could own one piece of art what would it be?

A picture that was accidentally thrown away, drawn for me by my son when he was 7.

6. What is your favourite website?

Google images, especially street view.
Its weird and a little bit wrong.

Kate Banazi

Monday, November 10, 2008

Sophie Molins - Studio 36



1. Describe your work

Mostly photographs, a few short films, and at the
moment it’s drawing a monkey a day to make a website
in honour of the things we are loosing in our
evolution.

2. How did you come to be doing the work that you do?

How long have you got.? I’ve always made things,
looked at things and been profoundly moved by certain
other works, so i went to art school to learn…

3. Where do you look for inspiration?

Good friends, interesting humans, galleries, books,
conversations, talks, meditation. They all put me in
the spirit.

4. What is your favourite place?

London even though I get away as much as I can I got
so London sick when I lived abroad. Born here.

5. If you could own one piece of art what would it be?

Raft of Medusa

6. What is your favourite website?

http://www.thenag.net

Sophie Molins