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

Materials are very important to me, and always have been.

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

For me it is a matter of respect for the ideas in the work and the people who look at them. I absolutely hate it when works come back to the studio for repair, and I try to make sure that they never do.

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

Thinking is a social process. I talk to everyone from children to anthropologists and philosophers. I try my ideas out on people and they talk back to you. That's how ideas get formed.

My practice is focused on bodies and relationships; the relationships between people and other creatures, between people and our bodies, between creatures and the environment, between the artificial and the natural.