The artist maintains a demanding production schedule, rising at 6:45 a.m., sharing mornings with an assistant, and beginning studio work almost immediately from a caravan outside the studio. Work runs until about 4 p.m., followed by painting sessions from roughly 5 p.m. to 10 p.m., often accompanied by Netflix, true crime podcasts, britpop, '80s power ballads, and occasional disco playlists for deadlines. The maker creates thousands of miniature products, painstakingly crafting each piece—fruit, VHS and cassette rows, self-help books, Spam cans—and has previously produced more exotic items like weapons and sex-shop objects. High-volume projects produce physical strain and studio cramping.
Most days, she rises at 6:45 a.m., her assistant soon arriving, and "sticks the kettle on." The artist lives in a caravan parked outside of her studio, so she says it's really just "a case of rolling out of bed and into a pile of felt." They work until around 4 p.m., and then between 5 p.m. and 10 p.m., the artist begins to paint. She says Netflix has been her prime accompaniment for these slots, for absorbing selections to aid productivity.
"Throughout the day, we listen to true crime podcasts, brit pop, '80s power ballads, pretty much anything you can sing along to," she says. "If there's a massive deadline, I unleash the disco playlist, but that's only for emergencies because it can make you go a bit mental." The products haven't always been so everyday. In the past, she's fashioned far more exotic objects: dynamite, gasmasks, grenades,
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