Image:C-Type Photographic Print Limited Edition of Ten Signed by the Artist 42cm x 29.7cm
1 If you weren’t an artist, what else would you be?
Employed
2 Name 3 of your least favourite artists.
Johnny LLoyd, A.P.Dough, Chad Cress Klein
3. Anytime, any place – which artist’s body would you most like to inhabit?
I Would Like To Be The Prehistoric Artist That First Drew, Daubed, Scratched, Chipped, Engraved,Stenciled And Sculpted In Relief Onto The Cave Interior.
4 What is your favourite ‘ism’?
Agapism. I Do Like To Love.
5 What was the most intelligent thing that someone said or wrote about your work?
Hayden Kays Is Not As Good As He Will Be, And He’s Not As Good As He Thinks He Is.
6. And the dumbest?
Hayden Kays is Techincally Very Capable.
7 Which artists would you most like to rip off, sorry, I mean appropriate as a critique of originality and authorship?
Nothing I’ve Ever Made Hasn’t Been Ripped Off From Someone, Something Or Several Things.
8 Do you care what your art costs? State your reasons!
In Terms Of Production. Yes. I Can’t Currently Manufacture The Objects I Play With In My Mind.
In Terms Of Purchase. No. The More The Merrier.
Image:Window To The Soul, 2009 Self Potrait
9 What are the three big ideas that you would like your work to express?
Turn It On, Turn It Off, Turn It On
10 Are you a political artist?
My Work Contains Political Subject Matter, But That’s About As far As It Goes.
11 How do you start the process of making work?
With A cup Of Tea And Plenty Of Procrastination.
12 What next?
Tomorrow Hopefully.
13 If Moma and the Tate and the Pompidou wanted to acquire one of your works each, which would you want them to have?
I Would Like The People That Visit Those Galleries To See ‘Cold Turkey’.
14 Complete the following sentence “Blessed are the artists, for they shall……”
Be Gods.
15 Complete the following sentence “Blessed are the curators, for they shall…”
Be Believers.
16 Complete the following sentence “Blessed are the art critics, for they shall….”
Be The Cripples.
17. What is your favourite cheese?
Époisses.
18. What’s next for you?
You Never Know.
