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

The identifying personal association with objects, which are not personal, is an important modern experience - our real association, the strands of our feelings about the objects that surround us. It's also because they are so familiar, we don't think of them as important in the world, but actually they are the world. We are living in a very material world.

My great grandmother was Chinese .

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

I think the best approach is not to be too much like the thing that they are referring to, see it as a guide.

I would never put a sculpture in front of a painting, so that it is difficult to see the painting. I always place each thing so you can see it isolated. You can focus on every individual work.

Today, in British education, we don't have that kind of freedom. Now there are many regulations, many rules, and bureaucracies in the education system. So, it doesn't have the flexibility that it had in the '60s, '70s, '80s.