Over the past 50 years the artist has built up a body of work at once disarming and tender; one that, above all else, makes us think about how we see the world and our place within it
He will oversee the museum’s curatorial department and work with the museum director, Eric Crosby, to help shape the institution’s artistic program and contextualise its collection
“The old-fashioned language feels so disconnected from today’s world, and out of that dissonance arises a kind of humour. What I value is humour born out of contradiction, not critique.”
From 2000: The artist had a Tate St Ives residency in 1998/99 when she worked from a temporary studio improvised in the lifeguard’s hut. Here, she recounts her experience
From 2012: Resonating throughout the exhibition is a belief that ideas ask for a physical form and that we always think with the help of the material world
