I pretty much keep everything; we have drawers full of samples and tests and every old catalogue and magazine.

I don't want the ideas to be limited by what I can physically do. The ideas come first.

I usually have several things on the go. Whether it is my own drawings for the next work that I am working on while a sculpture is being fabricated or several works at different points in production.

We did have one work where it looked like the fibreglass was discolouring, but it turned out it was reacting to the foam it was packed against in storage. We repaired it and sent it back with better packing.

As we get older, our world gets smaller and we start to doubt and question. We are really suspicious of difference.

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

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