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

Of course, all my work is photographed and I also take quite a lot of photographs of work in production.

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

I usually have several things on the go. Whether it is my own drawings for the next work that I am working on while a sculpture is being fabricated or several works at different points in production.

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.

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

I have been interested in visual arts since high school and, after realising that I had absolutely no interest in the economics degree I had undertaken at ANU, I started a BFA in Sydney which I completed at VCA in Melbourne.