I thought the objects we value least because they were ubiquitous were actually the most extraordinary.

If you were really interested in being creative in teaching, it was possible to try new methods and that was really what we did in Goldsmiths - we used the freedom of the time.

My great grandmother was Chinese .

It's just that some things more important for this and less important for that, and this is true regardless the style of the art.

I came to painting through sculpture, to images through objects. I think that images sit in the middle, somewhere between objects and words.

I had my exhibition of paintings first in Shanghai, and then recently in Wuhan. Wuhan particularly interested me, because I am 1/8 Chinese.

I look at the character of the exhibition and I treat it as I would a painting or an installation. When I did the Summer Exhibition at Royal Academy, I did it exactly as I would when making a new work.