We’re excited to share a new interview with Joe O’Rourke, in conversation with Chris Alton, now live on YAC.
In this thoughtful exchange, Joe reflects on his painting practice, discussing how memory, observation and everyday encounters shape the atmosphere of his work. The conversation explores quiet moments, shifting environments and the emotional weight that familiar spaces and images can hold.
Read the full interview via the link in bio.
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We’re excited to share a new interview with Alana Lake (@alanalake.studio ), in conversation with Dawn Woolley (@dawnwoolleystudio ), now live on YAC.
In this honest and open exchange, Alana talks about the ideas behind their exhibition Wanting, Yearning at Haarlem Artspace (@haarlemartspace ), curated by Kristian Day (@kristiandaygallery ). They reflect on themes of desire, addiction and control, and how these play out through images, objects and personal experience, drawing attention to the push and pull between attraction and discomfort.
Read the full interview via the link in bio.
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Photos by the artist and Will Slater.
We’re excited to share a new interview with Luke Beech (@lukebeechartist ), in conversation with Lauren Wilson (@lauren_emily_wilson ), now live on YAC.
In this candid exchange, Luke talks about their work across performance and moving image, reflecting on themes of mental health, queerness and alternative ways of learning. Their practice centres on openness and collaboration, using art as a space for conversation and shared experience.
Read the full interview via the link in bio.
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We’re delighted to share a new interview with Joey El Haddad (@joeyhadddad ), in conversation with Buyun Wang (@buyunw17 ), now live on YAC.
In this engaging exchange, Joey reflects on their painting and drawing practice, discussing how found imagery, memory and experimentation shape their work. The conversation also looks at their current exhibition Glasschord at William Hine Gallery (@williamhinegallery ), where layered compositions move between figuration and abstraction, exploring transformation and the ways images carry personal and cultural histories.
Read the full interview via the link in bio.
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Photos courtesy of the artist and William Hine Gallery. Taken by Damian Griffiths.
We are very excited to release an interview with artist Jessica Jane Charleston (@jessicajanecharleston )
Jessica spoke to our editor, Dave (@davidmcleavy_ ), reflecting on how drawing and self-portraiture act as gateways into her imagination and psyche, and how her work uses figures, entwined forms and mythic echoes to explore identity, intimacy and the layered textures of interior life. From observational drawing to spontaneous narrative, her practice invites us into a dream-like space where personal experience, memory and symbolism unfold on the page.
Read the full interview now (link in bio)
Images courtesy by Andy Bate, Nicholas Bruno, CULT Aimee Friberg and the artist.
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We’re delighted to share a new conversation with Hannah Hornby (@hannahhornbyart ) and Simone Marconi (@simone.marconi_ ), now live on YAC.
In this rich and reflective exchange, Hornby and Marconi discuss writing as a material practice, speculative fiction, and their shared fascination with time, memory, debris, and the unstable ground between the natural and the constructed. Moving between sculpture, text, sound, and image, the conversation traces cycles of growth and decay, uncertainty within history, and how fiction can be used as a tool to question reality, responsibility, and collective meaning.
Read the full conversation via the link in bio.
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We’re delighted to share a new interview with Marine One (@marine_one_art ), in conversation with Nastia Svarevska, now live on YAC.
In this thoughtful and playful exchange, Marine reflects on their practice of turning softness into sharp critique, using fabric, humour and interactive forms to explore ideas of gender, cultural bias and the dynamics between viewer and artwork. Their work invites laughter, discomfort and reflection, encouraging us to question not just what we see, but how and why we see it.
Read the full interview via the link in bio.
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We’re delighted to share a new interview with Fabrizio Previti (@fabracciopreviti ), in conversation with Giovanni Bartolini, now live on YAC.
In this deeply philosophical exchange, Previti reflects on memory, space and materiality, exploring how his works navigate presence and absence, and how form can hold traces of lived experience. The discussion unfolds as a meditation on art’s capacity to question perception, meaning and the act of making itself.
Read the full interview via the link in bio.
📸 by @gray_carmen
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“I was imagining a homeland — a paradise for all of us from the diaspora, a place of rest.” — Jessica Ashman
In this new interview, Jessica Ashman speaks with Ama Dogbe about Chimera Island, her solo exhibition at Modern Painters, New Decorators. Together they reflect on myth-making, sound, and natural dyeing — and how art can become a way to reimagine belonging, land and ancestral connection.
Read the full conversation at youngartistsinconversation.co.uk — part of an ongoing series of artist interviews exploring contemporary practice in the UK.
🗓 Chimera Island runs until 1 November 2025
📍 Modern Painters, New Decorators, Aumberry Gap, Loughborough
🕙 Thursday–Saturday, 10am–3pm
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It's a pleasure to publish an interview with artist Jessica Ashman (@jessica_a_ashman ), speaking about their current exhibition, 'Chimera Island' at @mpndprojects
Ama Dogbe (@artyfartyama ) took the time to speak to Ashman about the work in the show, the process of natural dyeing and how the show responds to a local site Leicestershire.
Full interview now online (link in bio).
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We are very excited to publish a new interview with artist Roo Dhissou (@roodhissou ), in conversation with Deep K Kailey (@iamdeepkailey ) around their current exhibition with @withoutshapewithoutform
One of our favourite quotes...
"For me, art is not about producing objects with answers. It’s about creating infrastructures of slowness, care and repair — spaces where people can survive, rest, and imagine new ways of being together"
Read the full interview now (link in bio)
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We have just published a new interview with artist Oleksandra Martson, diving into her quietly powerful paintings, exploring personal archives, our relationship to trauma and the poetics of repair.
Speaking to Mariia Kashchenko of @theartunit , Martson reflects on how memory, loss and resilience shape her process. The interview also touches on the ongoing war in Ukraine, and how its devastating impact continues to reverberate through the lives of those in the country and beyond.
Full interview now live via link in bio
Images courtesy of the artist
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