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Sickboy answers FAD’s Questions

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1 When did you start to make art?
I’m not sure of an exact date, but my earliest dated piece of so-called-art was a rendition of Sweeney the Toddler and I was 5.

2 How did you evolve into a professional artist?
I have just tried to stay focused and put all my energy into the art that I feel comfortable and happy doing. And it naturally evolves from there. I’ve heard people say being an artist is great because you carry your office around in your head. I feel that if I’m not practising creativity professionally, I always turn everyday tasks into something of a creative endeavour. Inside my head, I’m secretly turning menial tasks into creative endeavours. I like to think that this is fine-tuning my artistic ability, when in reality it’s the makings of a troubled soul.

3 What drove you to make art as a professional vocation?

Not being comfortable in any form of shirt or tie, and not listening to people in charge. Hating bosses. Hating regularity, clocks, time, computers… and getting fired for it. A lot of times.

4 Explain your inspiration?
I’m inspired by folk art, symbolism, youth culture, morbid obsessions, the psychedelic, biblical visionaries, the Lord’s music, rebels, kings and toys.

5 In what way does your inspiration transform into ideas?
A hand-drawn man surrounded by symbols wearing nothing but the latest footwear, sitting on a coffin looking unhappy, nurturing a city block, dreaming of the future.

7 Could your ideas be portrayed in any other medium? If so which?
I think massive 3-d incarnations such as the ones from my 2008 solo show ‘Stay Free’ are something I need to revisit. People feel they can go places in my paintings; it’s a 3-d world I’m trying to create in most pieces ? to actually be able to travel round them would be mind blowing, for me at least.

8 Which artists would you most like to blatantly rip off?
I don’t think that’s a way I have ever approached anything I am trying to do.

9 Why is your art made?
Primarily for me at the moment, any audience beyond that has always been a bonus.

10 What does being an artist mean to you?
Sleeping in dust.

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