Most of the work I make uses materials that are a bit outside of the traditional fine art world.

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.

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

It's interesting to work with what's important today, which is meaningful for our everyday lives.

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

As we get older, our world gets smaller and we start to doubt and question. We are really suspicious of difference.

I finished VCA at the height of the last big recession in the early 90s, and seeing that I was not going to be able to join one of the dwindling number of commercial galleries, I started an ARI called the Basement Project which ran for three years. Things came a little at a time and all of a sudden it's 20 years later and I'm still making art, which is really all I ever wanted to do.