Occupation: Artist Birth: 1965
We always use plywood rather than MDF for structural stuff for the same reasons [stability]..
We always use resin instead of polyurethane, even though it takes more work and is in places where it can't be seen, because resin tends to be more U….
It's interesting to work with what's important today, which is meaningful for our everyday lives..
I pretty much keep everything; we have drawers full of samples and tests and every old catalogue and magazine..
Obviously, I don't make an entire edition all at once, so the studio often goes back to produce editions, but that's a bit different. I guess I'm alw….
Materials are very important to me, and always have been..
I think people perceive my creatures as absurd because they look different, but at the same time, they are a little bit familiar. I want people to fe….
I have had sculptures cast in bronze, silver and aluminium. My drawings are all graphite or pigment ink and gouache on paper..
I don't set out to make something that is repulsive and that would scare people. I know that some people don't like what I make, and don't find it cu….
The studio keeps notes on the details of editions and production processes and the like..
I usually have several things on the go. Whether it is my own drawings for the next work that I am working on while a sculpture is being fabricated o….
Most of the work I make uses materials that are a bit outside of the traditional fine art world..
As we get older, our world gets smaller and we start to doubt and question. We are really suspicious of difference..
I struggle in life to find a sense of joy in things..
I am particularly interested in the way that the everyday realities of the world around us change these relations..
Of course, all my work is photographed and I also take quite a lot of photographs of work in production..
The illusion of life is crucial for the work, otherwise the ideas wouldn't be able to jump across, people wouldn't engage with it..
In the studio we use a pretty wide range of materials for the sculptures; silicone, fibreglass, human and animal hair, ABS plastic, dental acrylic, t….
I don't want the ideas to be limited by what I can physically do. The ideas come first..
Perhaps because of this, many have looked at my practice in terms of science and technology, however, for me it is just as informed by Surrealism and….
I put a lot of time and thought into my work, which I see as a sort of respect for both the work and the audience, and I have always been very concer….