I am particularly interested in the way that the everyday realities of the world around us change these relations.

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

For me it is a matter of respect for the ideas in the work and the people who look at them. I absolutely hate it when works come back to the studio for repair, and I try to make sure that they never do.

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

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 have had sculptures cast in bronze, silver and aluminium. My drawings are all graphite or pigment ink and gouache on paper.

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