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.

Skywhale is ambiguous. I think she is beautiful, but a lot of people think she is grotesque. You are drawn in and repelled at the same time, and it has to have that dynamic. My work has a certain element of abject mutation, uncertainty and darkness. Even she is dark - I mean she has ten breasts.

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

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

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

Quality and longevity are the primary criteria, along with repairability and ease of production.

The studio does a lot of testing before we settle on a system. Unfortunately, this means that price tends to come pretty far down the list.