I’m taking a week’s ‘holiday’ from the V&A, in order to install my sculpture ‘Monopoly’ in the courtyard of Gladstone Pottery Museum for the British Ceramic Biennial in Stoke-on-Trent. The piece is 4.5 metres long and 2 metres high, composed of over 30,000 hand-made bone china flowers pressed into a clay-covered wooden frame, and based on the Battleship token from the board game Monopoly. (An attempt at irony, in a year of ongoing banking, financial and economic crises.) A team of assistants and local volunteers work with me round the clock to complete the piece in time (just) for the press view on Thursday.
