My first workshop was in Rome, and that was the start of House of Waris. In a little magical atelier, a goldsmith, his apprentice, his stone setter - and that was where it began.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I grew up in a craftsman's home, where things were done with our own hands. I did cabinetmaking for four years and I hated it.
I grew up in Ditchling. It was an idyllic village at the foot of the South Downs. In those days, the village was full of artists and sculptors.
We've had to set a workshop up; we've had to equip the workshop and everything else. But all that equipment is there now and whatever projects they want to use it for in the future.
I went to Goldsmith College of Art in London in the '80s and there I made sculptures, but the objects had nothing to do with how I was thinking. I was making beautifully sanded wooden boxes!
I never had the exposure to techniques and so forth that children have today with art workshops, but I always had crayons and pencils and still have work going right back to when I was five or six years old.
We're doing a workshop over the first two weeks of December, I believe, with Graciella Daniele directing it.
The instruments, glassware, and chemical reagents necessary for my project were the same as my 19th-century predecessors had.
My first occupation was to map the country.
The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
In my gap year between college and drama school, I taught art at a hospice and worked at a little coffee shop across the street from Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London when everything around it was still a construction zone.