Elaine Mullings is a contemporary artist living and working in East Sussex and London. Her practice centres around printmaking, sculpture and installation and enjoys the material processes in printmaking and visually and is fascinated with the circle - a form, symbol or shape that often feature in her work.
1) Which art movement do you consider most influential on your practice?
Arte Povera and Minimalism
2) Where do you go and when to make your best art?
I go inside my head and I make the best art when I'm not trying too hard
3) How do you describe your 'creative process'?
My creative process is an emotional roller coaster of ups and downs. Then 'Boom"! Eureka!!!
4) Which artist, living or deceased, is the greatest inspiration to you?
The Ghanaian artist, El Anatsui
5) If you weren't an artist, what would you do?
I'd like to be an extraordinary artist
6) What do you listen to for inspiration?
I listen to quite a wide range of music including Jazz - most Miles, Coltrane, Monk and E.S.T or Kate Tempest and Beyonce and the blissful Stabat Mater by Pergolas and performed by Emma Kirby and James Bowman.
7) If you could own one artwork, and money was no object, which piece would you acquire?
I'd love to own El Anatsui's 'Fresh and Fading Memories' first shown on the exterior walls on the Grand Canal at the 2007 Venice Biennale.
8) If your dream museum or collection owner came calling, which would it be?
The Studio Museum in Harlem, NYC, please.
9) What is your key piece of advice for artists embarking on a fine art or creative degree today?
A short course in business studies will come in handy.
10) What is your favourite book of all time (fiction or non-fiction)?
Alice Walker's 'You can't keep a good woman down' which I read at college, back in the day. It pumped me up.
11) If you could hang or place your artwork in one non-traditional art setting, where would that be?
I'd love to place and installation on the Millennium Bridge in London, equidistant between the Tate Modern and St Paul's Cathedral.
12) What was the biggest lesson your university course or time studying taught you?
Studying at university confirmed to me that making art for a living is a privilege. It's also very necessary so don't take it for granted.
13) And finally, if we were to fast forward 10 years, where would we find you?
....in the studio.
