— Big. I was into Francis Bacon, so it was all red, white and black. The only good painting I did in the first year was this guy blowing his brains out. In the second year I got into taking the 16th century Italian paitings and ripping them off.
I was really lazy and I didn’t like getting all messed up, so when my college bought all these computers I was in heaven. I just stole images and fucked with them, smudged them. I became this ‘ideas’ person. For my degree show I scanned the whole of the Sistene Chapel into the hard disc, changed all the colours and called it my own. Gave it away as photocopies. I got a 2:1.
-Select (UK), May 1993
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