Usually people start with painting and then go on to make installations; my painting came from installation.

If you try to copy something exactly you won't get it correct, because you don't share the same tradition and context.

When I look at the objects that I draw, it seems to me so obvious about the contemporary world - these are our world.

I wanted to make new works of very contemporary objects, which I thought was interesting because many of them are manufactured in China, but these objects are universal, they go across all languages, all cultures.

In the studio, it took me a long time to work out how to make paintings that had the intensity that I was able to create by painting whole rooms. There is a very limited number of colours but there are many variations. I decided to use the purest palette that I could.

I think from an artist's point of view, everything in art, in fact everything in the world is available as material.

As an artist you are free to use any image, any style, any idea from any culture and any period of history.