Occupation: Artist Birth: 1965
Quality and longevity are the primary criteria, along with repairability and ease of production..
I don't think 'Dark Heart' has to be malevolent. It conveys a sense of depth. There is a sense of questioning turmoil..
I work with whatever mediums seems best suited to evoking the sorts of thoughts and emotions I am interested in playing with..
I have been interested in visual arts since high school and, after realising that I had absolutely no interest in the economics degree I had undertak….
I feel that there's hardly any irony in my work; if there's anything, there'll be sincerity, which people sometimes find hard to deal with..
In the studio we spend a lot of time working our what materials will work best and also last. We do tests and come back to them years later to see ho….
My practice is focused on bodies and relationships; the relationships between people and other creatures, between people and our bodies, between crea….
I certainly don't see the humour in my work as something that detracts from its seriousness. It's just a way of making difficult messages more palata….
For me it is a matter of respect for the ideas in the work and the people who look at them. I absolutely hate it when works come back to the studio f….
I started thinking of digital imaging, not photography, in 1994 as it seemed the most appropriate way to deal with ideas of biotechnology and adverti….
In one hundred years time people will look back and think 'these people were really worried about the environment, they were looking at things to do ….
If there are moments in my work when people find joy and humour, that's a real success for me..
For one work we developed a human hair felt, which involved collecting and sorting hundreds of kilos of human hair, and then blending it will a tiny ….
I have a database of all my works that I maintain to keep track of works and editions..
I would say my work is anti-ironic..
Artists make worlds for people to walk through..
The studio does a lot of testing before we settle on a system. Unfortunately, this means that price tends to come pretty far down the list..
A child came up to me and asked 'am I dreaming?' I had a similar experience coming to the Art Gallery of South Australia when I was a child. My mum h….
It's much easier to do something that's seen as being serious because people accept it right away, they don't question what you do, they just accept,….
Thinking is a social process. I talk to everyone from children to anthropologists and philosophers. I try my ideas out on people and they talk back t….
My Father is a photographer, so it was always around. I was trained in painting, so I learnt a lot of skills about composition, light, colour, the fo….