These are the last few days in which to prepare our show ‘Pattern Industry’. We are giving a talk to students at the Slade the day after the show opens. As we make amendments to the paintings, we discuss our practice and try to guess the sort of questions we might be asked. The talk [...]
It is after midnight and I am back from my assistant Sandra’s birthday party. In the Holloway Road, outside the University, I saw many young women queueing in the snow, their generous frames bulging from a tiny swaddling of baco-foil coloured fabric. ‘Goodness me, they must be cold!’ I thought, troublingly aware that my thoughts [...]
My 5 am start didn’t get me to York particularly early. There were a number of accidents on the A1, resulting in a diversion and a series of traffic jams . Miki Slingsby, my photographer, who is incidentally very congenial company and a man of infinite patience, set out considerably later and encountered no problems [...]