MARK VALENZUELA INTERVIEWED BY TONY GODFREY

By email

PART ONE: 11-14.8.24

TG. Hi Mark, it was good seeing you last month by Pablo Capati’s kiln in Batangas. Of course, I was not there when the kiln was emptied. What did you put in to fire? How did...

BUEN CALUBAYAN IN CONVERSATION WITH TONY GODFREY

December 2023 – August 2024

Part One, by email, 16th December 2023 onwards

TG. Hi Buen. It was good to meet yesterday. You mentioned you left Manila during the pandemic and lived in the country in...

Nice Buenaventura in conversation with Tony Godfrey.

9th July & 13th August 2024

TG. We are sitting together in the gallery that represents you, Artinformal, and I was wondering, as I have never been there, what is your studio like? What sort of room do you work...

Ian Woo Interviewed by Tony Godfrey

In his studio 20th March 2023

Ian Woo, Chromatic Pulse React, 2023

TG: How was the pandemic for you?

IW: It was...

LOUIE CORDERO MAKES A PAINTING

Interviewed by Tony Godfrey

In his studio August 2023 – April 2024

Louie Cordero Studio 4th August 2023

We met first on 4th August. His father, to whom he had been very close, had died two weeks earlier....

GUO-LIANG TAN IN CONVERSATION WITH TONY GODFREY

Recorded in his studio March 2023 and 

Common Man Coffee Roasters – Joo Chiat Road March 2024

Artist’s studio, March 2023, Singapore. Image courtesy of the...

Wawi Navarroza in conversation with Tony Godfrey

Interviewed 3rd January 2024

TG: Wawi, next week you’re traveling to New York for your show. What’s in it?

Wawi: My solo show is entitled “The Other Shore”. It’s a comprehensive collection bookending 2019 and 2023. It spans...

Tony Godfrey and Mawen Ong in conversation

by Facebook messenger August 2022

Normally I begin by asking the artist to select eight of their works including early work to discuss. However, Mawen Ong, gallery director of Mo space and an artist in her own right, felt it impossible to tell the story of Mo...

14th October 2021

After breakfast as Geraldine and I were going for our morning walk, one of Geraldine’s studio assistants came up to her with a colour print-out of some galaxy surrounded by stars.

“What galaxy is that?” I asked.

“The Milky Way photographed...

(We talked at the same time as we were agreeing which works to include in the exhibition After the Storm at Mizuma Gallery, Singapore.)

Tony Godfrey. Ling, I thought we could start by talking about your scribble works – the scribbles. An obvious question: are the scribbles by you? If not by...