There are three efforts in a career and in a show. The first effort is making the individual pieces. The second effort is putting a show together, choosing those pieces. And the third is the maintenance of a career.

Well, we opened the show on August the third and on August the fifth, we had to close it, but at first we thought the lockdown would only be for a couple of weeks, and then it became apparent that they wouldn’t be able to be open again.

There was one new work that I created which was Elected Representative: the idea that a member of Parliament is selected by a huge group of people. I spent a lot of time putting them together and so that there is a good abstract composition as well as a good factual composition.

Well, the oldest work in the show was a portrait medal of my father, which I did at the age of 13. We cast it in bronze, and then I started selling castings, and we had the playful argument of whether people were buying his portrait or my work!

When you start off, you are a little bit in awe of what you produce; ‘fancy me being able to do that!’ But as you go forward, you become better at everything, and the standards that you demand of yourself increase progressively.

My ideas stem from things that are happening around us. If I take notice of something, I want to produce a work which encourages my viewers to take notice of that same subject and to think about it and say, ‘Oh, maybe I never thought about it like that before.’