The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition is very difficult to hang because it is so large and the quality is very varied. There are 1,200 works, an almost impossible number, some are interesting and some are not.

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

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

'Understanding' art is like having a sense of humour - if you don't have one, no amount of explanation is going to make you laugh.

Often people do not properly value things that they are good at naturally because they find them too easy. That is very problematic.

My idea for every exhibition is we should be able to see every individual work without being distracted by the others, and it doesn't matter if it's quite crowded.

It's important for me to give each thing the possibility to speak and also to allow artworks speak to each other.