“The island was made in direct response. I used the diagnostic tool of Rorschach blots – something designed to extract and evaluate the dark and unconscious elements of our personality.”

I’d never seen [Haughton] Forrest’s work before until I came across it on the front of an ANZ book. I then researched a whole lot of his work.

I wanted to make a massive work so as soon as Nick Mitzevich invited me I said yes straight away and began to make the work.

A movie I must have seen 10 times is ‘Jonathan Livingston Seagull.’ It’s an old movie, but still such a beautiful message. If I had only one film I could take on my computer on a desert island, I would take ‘Jonathan Livingston Seagull.’

Prime-time network television has become an island without religion in an ever-more-religious America.

the wealthy white western minority of the world could not hope to prosper if most of the rest of mankind were foundering in hopeless poverty. Islands of plenty in a vast ocean of misery never have been a good recipe for commercial success.

The children gazed in delight. Nothing but trees and birds and little wild animals. Oh, what a secret island, all for their very own, to live on and play on.

Planet Earth is our shared island, let us join forces to protect it

This is our island. It’s a good island. Until the grownups come to fetch us we’ll have fun.

The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers….Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island.

I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.