I certainly don't see the humour in my work as something that detracts from its seriousness. It's just a way of making difficult messages more palatable.

The idea that we can have a new life form, what does it say about the zoo's main purpose, which is to preserve life? What does it say when the artificial and real animal can have the same attraction to people?

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

I tend to work towards specific exhibitions, so there will often be a big push towards the end when we're finishing off a bunch of stuff.

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

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

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