Interview

The Open University collaborated with the artist Olivia Plender in her solo show at Milton Keynes Gallery, providing archived TV programmes from the Art and Environment course, first presented in the late 1970s. These were shown on television screens as part of Plender’s installation in the Long Gallery which explores the use of television as an educational resource. Over the course of 2012 the exhibition travelled to the Arnolfini Gallery Bristol and the Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow.

Melanie Smith is one of Mexico's most celebrated contemporary artists. Her first UK survey exhibition will include a major new film, Fordlandia (2013), produced in the Brazilian Amazon in an abandoned city and rubber plantation built in the 1920s by Henry Ford; and the films Spiral City (2003) and Xilitla (2010), featuring Edward James’ architectural follies in the Mexican jungle. Melanie Smith In Conversation with Professor Dawn Ades is a rare opportunity to hear current exhibitor Melanie discuss her practice with writer, curator and lecturer, Professor Dawn Ades.

Andrew Dewdney, David Dibosa and Victoria Walsh interview with art historian Leon Wainwright, as part of ‘Tate Encounters: Britishness and Visual Culture’, a three-year research project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council through the Diasporas, Migration and Identities Programme, which commenced in April 2007. Collaborating institutions: Tate Britain, London South Bank University and the University of the Arts London, through Chelsea College.

Anna Barriball’s first major survey exhibition, at MK Gallery, brought together drawing, video, photography and sculpture made over the last decade. She is in conversation with Professor Briony Fer.

David Rushton in conversation with Richard Elms On the occasion of the 'Models, Metaphors, Concepts & Conceits Exhibition' at the Herbert Museum and Art Gallery, Coventry. 20th Dec, 2010

Discussion of the work of Daria Martin from the past 10 years; work explores the historical ideal of the ‘gesamtkunstwerk’ or total artwork in order to create new frictions.

Flora Parrott on her exhibition 'Trapezius'. Interviewed by Dominic Bubb at the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum Coventry, Spring 2011.

Derek Nisbet - an audio-visual installation responding to Raymond Mason's 'Belsen Head' (1945). Interviewed by Richard Elms at the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum Coventry, February 2011.

Lisa Gunn on her exhibition 'Trapezius' - interviewed by Richard Elms at the Herbert Museum and Art Gallery, Coventry. Feb, 2011.

You can find out more about Lisa's preparation for 'Trapezius' on her blog.