"It really opened up to me how much my thinking of the world was so narrow, and that any view of someone else changes when you give them the openness that the sign series was able to offer."
“A-A’, B-B’, which will take place both in Glasgow and Turin, feels very much like a project for the age of Brexit – a divided painting, a divided car, two venues bridging an imminent divide.”
"They are hybrid figures. They are part Victorian, part African, part Dutch. They are an expression of the identity of a contemporary post-colonial birth."
“The YBA thing wasn’t exactly a movement, but it was the last and closest thing we’ve had to a movement in recent times where a whole crop of artists emerged together apparently responding to a mood and sequence of events.”
"I am not sure how the Trump phenomenon will manifest in my work but I do know it is impossible for anyone to negate it and its ability to submerge into our subconscious.."
“Places like Frieze, it’s like an acid trip: the plastic surgery, the gross clothes, the money. I’m not making a judgement, I’m just saying “bloody hell can we all see this!”
“it is the first time that everything that surrounds the making of art has stopped which is both daunting, when this is your livelihood, but also a real focus puller on the primal human need to make art.”
