Occupation: Artist Birth: 1965
Melbourne is a fantastic place to work, but it's not the centre of the world..
The silicone we use is the hardest, most UV stable we can get, and we have done enormous amounts of testing and research to get a paint solution that….
I don't connect accessibility with lowest common denominator..
I work with whatever mediums seems best suited to evoking the sorts of thoughts and emotions I am interested in playing with..
We did have one work where it looked like the fibreglass was discolouring, but it turned out it was reacting to the foam it was packed against in sto….
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….
I tend to work towards specific exhibitions, so there will often be a big push towards the end when we're finishing off a bunch of stuff..
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….
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….
How does contemporary technology and culture changes our understanding of what it means to be human. What is our relationship with - and responsibili….
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,….
Artists make worlds for people to walk through..
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..
Ideas rather than methods are central to they way I work, although drawing plays a central generative role in everything I do..
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….
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….
The way we look at nineteenth-century English social realism and appreciate the working classes of the emerging industrial revolution..
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 don't think 'Dark Heart' has to be malevolent. It conveys a sense of depth. There is a sense of questioning turmoil..
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 ….
I would say my work is anti-ironic..