Articles
Fiona Maddocks
RA Exhibitions
2 years ago
Seeing double: artist duos in the Summer Exhibition
Artist duos are challenging the concept of individual authorship. Now they are celebrated at this year’s Summer Exhibition. Fiona Maddocks asks four pairs of artists how they collaborate.
Artists
> 2 years ago
In the studio with Yinka Shonibare RA
As Yinka Shonibare RA prepares to wrap the Academy’s Burlington Gardens façade in his bold designs, Fiona Maddocks visits the sculptor at his warehouse studio in east London.
Artists
> 2 years ago
In the studio with Rose Wylie RA
In Rose Wylie RA’s Kent studio, paint spatters are everywhere. Fiona Maddocks meets the artist whose star is shining late in life.
Artists
< 3 years ago
In the studio with Sonia Lawson RA
Despite various challenges, including a leaking roof, Sonia Lawson RA is keen to return to her garden studio, says Fiona Maddocks.
Artists
3 years ago
In the studio with Louisa Hutton RA
Behind redbrick walls in an old Berlin factory Fiona Maddocks finds architect Louisa Hutton RA in a calm and spacious haven.
Artists
< 4 years ago
In the studio with Will Alsop RA
Known for his colourful urban buildings, the Academician also retreats to paint in his Norfolk studio.
Artists
< 4 years ago
In the studio with Phillip King PPRA
Fiona Maddocks meets sculptor and former RA President Phillip King in his studio in a converted north London factory.
Artists
5 years ago
In the studio with Phyllida Barlow RA
Meet the sculptor who chooses materials for their rawness and authenticity to create her haunting art.
Artists
> 5 years ago
In the studio with Joe Tilson RA
Fiona Maddocks meets painter and Academician Joe Tilson at his studio in a workers’ cottage in Chelsea.
Artists
> 5 years ago
Out to lunch with Richard Wilson RA
Over a sushi lunch, the sculptor and Academician talks about “getting away with” art that challenges our preconceptions of the world around us.
Artists
> 5 years ago
In the studio with Peter Cook RA
The architect and Academician fills his London studio with a sense of fun, as Fiona Maddocks discovers.
Artists
< 6 years ago
In the studio with Anne Desmet RA
Printmaker and Academician Anne Desmet discusses juggling work and family life in a studio at her east London house.
Artists
6 years ago
In the studio with Jenny Saville RA
The Academician talks with us from her current studio in Oxford.
Artists
6 years ago
In the studio with Gillian Wearing RA
We speak to the painter in her minimalist studio in London’s East End, which is filled with an unexpected riot of colour.
Artists
> 6 years ago
In the studio with Gary Hume RA
The Academician’s Clerkenwell studio is cool, white and ordered - but in it Hume is a warm, unpretentious presence.
Artists
7 years ago
In the studio with Stephen Cox RA
The Academician has built his studio in a converted granary, in the Shropshire landscape made famous by A.E Housman.
Artists
> 7 years ago
In the studio with Albert Irvin RA
Evidence of Albert Irvin’s thirst for adventure on canvas can be seen in the east London studio he has occupied for over 30 years.
Artists
< 8 years ago
In the studio with John Carter RA
The quiet minimalist aesthetic of the Academician’s London studio has survived an extraordinary intrusion, he tells us.
Artists
8 years ago
In the studio with Antony Gormley RA
Get the vital statistics on the Academician’s studio, his work, and his relationship to the planet.
Artists
> 9 years ago
In the studio with Maurice Cockrill RA
When Maurice Cockrill RA is not nurturing his charges at the RA Schools, he can be found hidden away in his splendid attic studio at the Academy.
Artists
> 9 years ago
In the studio with Jennifer Durrant RA
Jennifer Durrant RA’s studio is part of a big adventure she embarked on in 2000, when she left London to migrate south.
Artists
< 11 years ago
In the studio with Michael Sandle RA
Visiting with the sculptor in his new London studio, Fiona Maddocks finds him as full of sound and fury as his monumental work.