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How would you characterize your figures? I usually say they are like 3D cartoons. They look like mass produced toys but are actually hand made and much more expensive. They don’t show any of the surface texture traditionally associated with sculpture. Please describe the themes apparent in your work. The themes are not chosen consciously, they just materialise. I would say my two main themes are humour and sex, just like Carry On films, but I hope to combine this with a slight edge and seriousness that just pulls them back from the brink of utter silliness. Humour is there because it’s such a excitement to make someone laugh, and sex because it’s number one subject on the planet… well, perhaps second after death. I’m a big believer in the ‘creativity is a sublimation of the sexual urge’ idea. My characters are my children. Many of your figures are naked. Are they exhibitionist or just ‘being natural’? What a perfect question! I think different figures have different attitudes to their nakedness, but generally I prefer the ‘being natural’ approach. The Proud Farmer for instance is casually having a pee rather than wanking in public. It is as if he has been glimpsed from behind a hedge. I imagine he’s the well endowed idiot son of a Spanish turn of the century landowner. Swinging Screamer on the other hand is an obnoxious little show off. Why do toys never have genitalia, to begin with? I guess most toys are traditionally for children, bought by parents, and most parents quite reasonably like to keep their children and sex in different compartments. |
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