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• ‟ Being a sculptor who uses found objects, all the objects I use in my work have been designed by other people. So I'm tweaking them in some way by squashing them or throwing them off cliffs! Then I formalise my damage by suspending them or arranging them in some kind of way. So I'm using other people's design in a way, so I'm an 'un-maker.'

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ My work has threads of ideas from all over the place. I try to crystallise them in something simple and direct that the viewer can then take where they want.

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• ‟ As you get older, things don't work as well. I do Pilates, and that helps.

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• ‟ I didn't really know what I was looking at when I first came across Man Ray's 'Dust Breeding,' his photograph of a work by Marcel Duchamp called 'Large Glass.' It looked like an aerial photograph or a view through a microscope.

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• ‟ A lot of my work has been about stuff I've been frightened of: cliffs, explosions, meteorites, that kind of stuff. I would have been this trembling blob of fear if I hadn't got into making art, which is a good way of deferring it.

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• ‟ What was the most important thing I learned from Chomsky? That capitalism compels us to work ourselves to death in order to stuff our houses with things we don't need. Perhaps this is one thing art can do: create a new aesthetic, one of austerity.

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• ‟ I am not a propagandist; my work has often had a political dimension but, hopefully, one that is not didactic and is open to interpretation.

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• ‟ Some people separate their work and home lives, but I love the idea of having my studio and house in the same space.

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• ‟ I want to make work that reflects different times and processes.

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• ‟ I always feel my work is a chemical reaction between me and the world, wherever I happen to be.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ Maybe it's my Catholic upbringing - I grew up thinking that Armageddon was just around the corner - now I know it is, with global warming and all. I can keep it at bay by doing the work. It's a sort of reverse sympathetic magic. I'm always doing it so it doesn't happen to me.

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• ‟ I don't want my work to be issue-based. I want people to be able to read it in lots of different ways.

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• ‟ You don't have to have angst to be an artist, but it's grist to the mill. If you want to explore the whole emotional spectrum in your work, it helps to have experienced intense emotions.

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• ‟ People often want the big dramatic works, not the smaller quieter ones, but I don't worry about how it fits together anymore; I just have to do it. I feel compelled to make a work: it's like an itch I have to scratch, and once it's been scratched, it goes away.

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