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" Even though people think I am more of a conceptual artist, I am actually very intuitive. For me, it is still a matter of allowing things to naturally rise to the top of my mental pile, and then I make them. "

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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. "

" I had two great art teachers at school, but even they tried to tell me it was too hard a world. But that made being an artist even more attractive. "

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School

Art

" I didn't make any money out of my art until I was in my 40s, but it preserved my sanity and my freedom. "

" Artists and scientists both think outside the box. They've got to come with genius experiments or ideas to expose the most interesting phenomena. "

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" I'm trying not to go through that midlife dip that artists tend to have. "

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

" Driving a steamroller over an old trumpet or a teaspoon is no more destructive than taking a chisel to a lump of marble already torn from the landscape. But people don't see it that way because marble is considered noble. "

" Design impacts me in everything I do. Because, as I say, everything I own is designed. So the building I live in, the objects I choose to boil water in for example, even drinking vessels. "

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Water

" I always love the court fool in Shakespearean times, in Henry VIII's time. The fool can say all kinds of stuff that the other people can't say, so I'm hoping I might take that role. "

" Paul Auster is my favourite writer, and I'm sure he'd be a very interesting person to share a journey with. "

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Journey

" At my degree show, someone said, 'It's nice, but it's very feminine.' I said, thank you, taking it as a compliment, but they obviously meant it as an insult. "

" I have always had a bob haircut because my hair is so fine and doesn't like being long. "

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Hair

Fine

" Jeremy Corbyn makes me angry. He seems vain. "

" Living in a warehouse is great - but after a while, you just want a garden. "

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Far

Trust

" As a working-class girl, receiving free school dinners, I studied art history. Having never had the chance to visit art galleries, I devoured the knowledge, and it has served me well as a practising artist. "

" 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 my father's sidekick, in a way. He was a very dominant, forceful character. "

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Father

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Really

Strategic

" 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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Thinking

Work

" You only get one life, so it seems to me you might as well do the things you want to do. "

" 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. "

" Beauty is too easy. Often in my work, I take beautiful objects and do extreme things to them so that they are overlaid with something a bit more sinister and violent. "

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Beauty

Work

" I definitely didn't want children, because my childhood was not a very happy time. "