(A text composed of questions asked to those whom we have found influential to our studies

N.B. For those without wingdings question 7 was alternatively interpreted)

John Baldessari Ellie Harrison Tamara Albaitis Ruth Pelzer Keith Farquhar Lee Patterson Alan Murray Andrew Gannon Susannah Thompson Lawrence Weiner Becky Campbell Juan Cruz Scott Myles Stephen Hunter Neil Mulholland Tom Nolan Dean Hughes John Beagles Alan Holligan Shona MacNaughton Jack Strange Katie Paterson Jennie Temple David Korowicz Rupert Norfolk Fiona Mathison Neil Manning Sophie Calle Alan Currall Michael Craig-Martin < back

RUPERT NORFOLK:

1. What is the nearest object to you?

My spectacles.

2. Where do you draw the line?

I don't know

3. How do you know when you've crossed the line?

I don't know

4. Is it harder to do less?

Sometimes

5. What is curiosity?

Not Knowing.

6. Who do you make work for?

I make work to discover how something I can half imagine might materialise.

7.← or → , ↑ or ↓ ?

Onwards

8. What should an artwork do?

I don't think an artwork is obliged to do anything. An experimental engagement with the world perhaps.

9. Does your work ASK or ANSWER questions?

Neither

10. "purposefully purposeless"?

No

11. Why make Art?

It's human and marvelous.

12. How do you find out what you don't know?

I don't know

13. Do you have a role as an artist?

I don't know

14. What sustains your practice?

Curiosity

15. How are you doing?

I'm very well