The silicone we use is the hardest, most UV stable we can get, and we have done enormous amounts of testing and research to get a paint solution that is extremely hardy and repairable.

The studio keeps notes on the details of editions and production processes and the like.

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

In the studio we spend a lot of time working our what materials will work best and also last. We do tests and come back to them years later to see how they are still performing, and this leads our decisions.

How does contemporary technology and culture changes our understanding of what it means to be human. What is our relationship with - and responsibilities towards - that which we create.

Ideas rather than methods are central to they way I work, although drawing plays a central generative role in everything I do.

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