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I like drawing from all kinds of territories in art.
I like the idea of taking three-dimensional objects and making them two-dimensional so that they look like cartoons.
I need eight hours of sleep, but I never get it except at weekends.
I never got to play as a child. All my spare time was spent working on my family's smallholding.
I started doing sculpture rather than painting. I was halfway through my degree, and I hadn't really done any introduction courses in sculpture... I'd missed all the technical stuff. I didn't really know how to weld or forge or carve or model. I'd sort of evaded all those technique classes, so I had no technique.
I take things that are worn out through overuse, that have become cliches - like the shed, a traditional place of rest and retreat - and I give them a more incandescent future.
I think design means, for me, almost when man, back in time, decided to do something conscious. You know... to shape something and make something different from just using things that were lying around. So whoever designed the wheel were onto a good thing.
I think I was a late developer because I'd been stuck in the country and was a little bit shy and withdrawn.
I think I'm a feminist, hopefully by example. I just feel it's important to do as much as I can as a woman, to the best of my ability.
I think it's quite obvious my work is made by a woman, because I have never wanted to make anything that is not ephemeral. But I definitely want to be thought of as an artist first.
I think my work is like a spiral: you keep coming back on yourself, but you're at a different place. It's like reading 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' every five years. You realise that some things have caught up.
I think your subconscious knows far more than your conscious, so I trust it.
I try to avoid the 'art world' as much as possible. It's too much about fads and fashions - who's getting the best prices at auction and things like that.
I want to make work that reflects different times and processes.
I was involved in a serious accident driving in torrential rain at midnight in Cardiff. I was only doing five miles an hour, but because I couldn't see very well, I crossed a junction and collided with another car that was driving very fast. I ended up in hospital for six weeks with a shattered pelvis.
I was my father's sidekick, in a way. He was a very dominant, forceful character.
I was selling bric-a-brac in Portobello and Camden Market. I love objects. But I was embarrassed by the idea of collecting, so I began using these things in my art.
I was very physical as a child - we lived on a smallholding, and I was always outside making mud pies or building structures up trees.
I went to a quite macho art school in the 1970s, and while everyone was making hulking big sculptures, I was making things out of bits of paper.
I'd love to do something like put a piece of moon rock on Mars and a piece of Mars on the moon, a sort of reverse archaeology.
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