My practice is focused on bodies and relationships; the relationships between people and other creatures, between people and our bodies, between crea….

Melbourne is a fantastic place to work, but it's not the centre of the world..

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….

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 am particularly interested in the way that the everyday realities of the world around us change these relations..

We always use plywood rather than MDF for structural stuff for the same reasons [stability]..

We tend to be talking to fabricators in the film and special effects or automotive customisation worlds. That having been said, I'm sure as more and ….

I would say my work is anti-ironic..

Quality and longevity are the primary criteria, along with repairability and ease of production..

The idea that we can have a new life form, what does it say about the zoo's main purpose, which is to preserve life? What does it say when the artifi….

Artists make worlds for people to walk through..

Now that other people have my works, it's really important to me that what they have has longevity..

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….

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..

I don't want the ideas to be limited by what I can physically do. The ideas come first..

I finished VCA at the height of the last big recession in the early 90s, and seeing that I was not going to be able to join one of the dwindling numb….

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….

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….

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….

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….

It's interesting to work with what's important today, which is meaningful for our everyday lives..