The way we look at nineteenth-century English social realism and appreciate the working classes of the emerging industrial revolution.

I don't want the ideas to be limited by what I can physically do. The ideas come first.

Now that other people have my works, it's really important to me that what they have has longevity.

I have had sculptures cast in bronze, silver and aluminium. My drawings are all graphite or pigment ink and gouache on paper.

The silicone we use is the hardest, most UV stable we can get, and we have done enormous amounts of testing and research to get a paint solution that is extremely hardy and repairable.

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

I feel that there's hardly any irony in my work; if there's anything, there'll be sincerity, which people sometimes find hard to deal with.