I’ve been putting a lot of time into following the story of Ai Weiwei lately and it’s having quite an impact on my practice. It’s only recently that I have started to become really aware of the freedoms we have as artists in the west, especially here in the Uk.
It’s easy to get hung up on things like relevance and signifcance and stuff like ‘crap, do I have anything to say?’ but in the UK we are lucky, we have the freedom to make stuff regardless of content and context. We have the freedom as artist to do, say and make pretty much anything we want.
The act of making is itself an active voice of the greatest freedom.
