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“I'm aware that success can overwhelm you. The perception of you can be elevated to such a status that it's not you any more.”

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I've always set out to embrace all that I am.

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I just hope that when black people look at me, they don't see someone superhuman. They see themselves.

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Sometimes, as I feel a door or an exit point in my work is closing, I'll try to create an opening so as not…

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When I left the Royal College, I decided I would only make paintings that I would want to look at myself, that felt close…

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I'm black, and it's a very important part of what I am. I'm not embarrassed about it.

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The studio is a place where I can experiment before I'm prepared for an idea to become a body of work, or a new…

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The studio is a laboratory, not a factory. An exhibition is the result of your experiments, but the process is never-ending. So an exhibition…

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I wouldn't say even that I'm a broadly political person. But on occasion, I have felt that I have no choice but to paint…

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There's a magic that comes from playing entirely to who you are. I've got my specialist subject - in the Mastermind sense - and…

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I was brought up a Catholic and was an altar boy.

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