I have always been interested in making work out of whatever is available, whatever is to hand. I have no sense of permanentness, everything is of a temporary moment.

My first encounter with modern art was a school trip to the Commonwealth Institute in London when I was 14 years old. In the foyer was a construction of building materials, that formed a centre piece. I asked my teacher what itwas and he said ‘sculpture’. I had thought up to that point that statures were sculpture. Here was something, abstract, made from inddustrail materials I understood and recognised. I had no problem accepting them as art, suddenly I saw art as a place I might someday call home. (It was many years later I discovered that the work I came across was by the British Sculptor Anthony Caro).