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“Making beautiful things for everyday use is a wonderful thing to do - making life flow more easily - but art confronts life, allowing it to stop and perhaps change direction - they are completely different.”

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We are not moving towards some kind of goal. We are at the goal, and it is changing with us. If art has any…

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I just want my work to be part of the elemental world.

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Due to the failure of politics, which has become a process of middle-management, art has become one of the last open spaces to question…

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Cities have become places where we are controlled, by CCTV and other means, in the same way as machines are controlled. My works provide…

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I was educated by monks - I thank them dearly for the education they gave me, but I am no longer a Catholic.

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I want people to be excited about cooling towers and megasheds; they're as much part of our history as the rural barn.

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