1 If you weren’t an artist, what else would you be?
A pedestrian cowboy
2 Name 3 of your least favourite artists.
Huey, Dewey and Louie
3. Anytime, any place – which artist’s body would you most like to inhabit?
John Lennon, if this can be arranged, let’s do it like an episode from “Quantum Leap” 8th December 1980
4 What is your favourite ‘ism’?
Favouritism
5 What was the most intelligent thing that someone said or wrote about your work?
Recently an Italian journalist described HIM – lifesize sculpture of Charles Saatchi – as a comical subversive experiment by me using the advertising guru to advertise myself
6. And the dumbest?
“Is he real ?”
7 Which artists would you most like to rip off, sorry, I mean appropriate as a critique of originality and authorship?
Shel Silverstein
8 Do you care what your art costs? State your reasons!
Price is one thing, sales are another
9 What are the three big ideas that you would like your work to express?
Art is power, Art is power, Art is power
10 Are you a political artist?
Political and satirical
11 How do you start the process of making work?
Being an outsider, I think outside the box
12 What next?
Work backwards
13 If Moma and the Tate and the Pompidou wanted to acquire one of your works each, which would you want them to have?
They each could acquire a “Gold Spliff ”
14 Complete the following sentence “Blessed are the artists, for they shall…”
be there
15 Complete the following sentence “Blessed are the curators, for they shall…”
organise the Guest List
16 Complete the following sentence “Blessed are the art critics, for they shall….”
drink the wine
17. What is your favourite cheese?
Parmigiano
18. What’s next for you?
JULY : “Gaz’s Rock’n Blues” exhibition at Subway Gallery and painting rocks in the hot sun at Fuji Rock Festival , Japan.
AUGUST : working again with Mick Jones and the crew for “The Rock & Roll Public Library”, to be exhibited on Sir Peter Blake’s Art Bus, at the launch of “Vintage at Goodwood” and curating the next “Playtime” art installation featuring Mr Wim.
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