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.

When I go to China I see many artists whose work reflects on aspects of contemporary popular culture but obviously the history of Western art is not part of their own tradition.

Art is more to do with observation than invention.

My great grandmother was Chinese .

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.

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

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