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

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?

I work with whatever mediums seems best suited to evoking the sorts of thoughts and emotions I am interested in playing with.

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

Perhaps because of this, many have looked at my practice in terms of science and technology, however, for me it is just as informed by Surrealism and mythology.

I have a database of all my works that I maintain to keep track of works and editions.

A child came up to me and asked 'am I dreaming?' I had a similar experience coming to the Art Gallery of South Australia when I was a child. My mum had done a workshop here and it stayed with me. It's an important formative time.