..to be one man alone in a workshop with nothing more than the notion of an idea, then to start bending and welding, covering in clay and wax, cutting, changing, forming, deforming, reforming, discovering something, loving it and hating it, days and weeks of journeying. Then moulding, baking, melting, lifting and shovelling, sweating exhaustion and exhilaration until almost abruptly, one day, there is something...

Rowan Gillespie, 2001