We always use plywood rather than MDF for structural stuff for the same reasons [stability].

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.

I struggle in life to find a sense of joy in things.

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

If there are moments in my work when people find joy and humour, that's a real success for me.