The Studio Is A Place Where I

There Was A Point In Time Where The Thought Of People Even Talking About Me Made Me Anxious. Physically.

I Was Listening To A Lot Of Hip Hop, Music Like Public Enemy That Was About Raising Consciousness, And I Realised I Could Feed That Directly Into My Work, Using Images In A Way That Was A Bit Like Sampling - Taking Images From Diverse Places, Exploring The Contradictions Without Trying To Hide The Seams.

In The End, It Doesn't Really Matter What You Paint. It's All Just A Routine To Connect Yourself Finally With Other People.

When I Was Painting In Art School - And I Think Many Painters In The 1980s Worked Similarly - A Finished Painting Would Often Be Constructed From Lots Of Other Paintings Underneath. Some Of These Individual Layers Of Painting Were Better Than Others, But That Was Something That You Would Often Only Realise Retrospectively.

Often I Think Changes Within My Work Have Been Seen As Sudden Changes Or Sharp Changes, But For Me They're Not That Sudden. They Have Been There In The Studio, But Not So Much In Public.