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Introducing the fourth and final set of conversations in our 40 Years 40 Artists series of artist interviews.

Amy Gear and Daniel Clark, founders of Gaada in Shetland, describe how they are “creating an art world on an island.”

Collaborative duo Forest + Found discuss their role as artists in “thinking and engaging with our natural resources and the environment.”

Harold Offeh outlines how his success as an artist “has been built on the hard efforts, work and activism of previous generations.”

Artist collective Rat Trap outline their hopes for the future of the arts in Wales and consider “how to keep striving for utopian visions”.

Read the second set of conversations in our 40 Years 40 Artists series of interviews with artists who feature in a-n’s archive.

Yinka Shonibare outlines the development of his work in the 1990s, including his “big jump from painting to costume”.

Franko B discusses his early body and blood-based performances in gay clubs during the 1990s, made at the height of the AIDS crisis.

Jane and Louise Wilson discuss the start of their artistic collaboration in the 1990s, and how a-n is “an essential resource.”

Sunil Gupta discusses making work about the experiences of gay men in his hometown of Delhi and setting up Autograph in the 1980s.

In the first of a new series of publications celebrating the a-n archive, Black Hole Club unearth the past, probe the present, and look to the future.

Mona Hatoum discusses the ways in which her own work “became more confrontational” in the 1980s through live performance and direct street action.