I don't connect accessibility with lowest common denominator.

The illusion of life is crucial for the work, otherwise the ideas wouldn't be able to jump across, people wouldn't engage with it.

Artists make worlds for people to walk through.

In one hundred years time people will look back and think 'these people were really worried about the environment, they were looking at things to do with global warming, and this is why they were making work about these issues'.

My Father is a photographer, so it was always around. I was trained in painting, so I learnt a lot of skills about composition, light, colour, the formal attributes of images.

Melbourne is a fantastic place to work, but it's not the centre of the world.

I pretty much keep everything; we have drawers full of samples and tests and every old catalogue and magazine.