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

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

I put a lot of time and thought into my work, which I see as a sort of respect for both the work and the audience, and I have always been very concerned that the materiality of the work reflects that.

My Father is a photographer, so it was always around. I was trained in painting, so I learnt a lot of skills about composition, light, colour, the formal attributes of images.

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

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

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.