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Is the kind of, in a way, form that i chose to present my work in a museum context. right. so, you say you studied at college. in fact, you won a place at the very prestigious saint martin's school of art, in london, which was really pretty good at that time, because you were the son of immigrants from the caribbean island of saint lucia, you grew up in a pretty tough inner—city housing estate. so did you always know you wanted to be an artist? well, in a way, i think one of the things that happens when you're kind of a bored teenager — like i was — then you kind of look across the road ...
The big exhibition the v and aided? is that what got the museum particularly interested, or did it mean people came to the museum and said, look, there is the stuff, we are looking for a home? the exhibition in 2013 was definitely our first relationship with the david bowie archive. we were given unprecedented access to create that ground—breaking, game changing show, so that is ten years ago, and i guess it was a real catalyst for how his work was seen within a museum context. the archive itself is that much bigger than anything you could put into a single exhibition, presumably, so as much...