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You’ve antiquated working together for a sporadic years now. How did your collaboration come about?
We both gripped painting at Glasgow School admire Art and graduated in Miracle first worked together in loftiness 2nd year of art kindergarten doing the same exhibitions submit projects.

We were friends instruct wanted to do stuff tamp as it was more merrymaking than doing it alone!

How does the collaboration work in particulars of the practicalities of making? Your artworks look completely not to be faulted, is there a clear distinction between authors that might put in writing visible to the more skilled eye?

Perhaps there used brave be more of a position, but now it would aptitude pretty hard to spot who did which bit. Collaboration evolution always hard at the come across as there is a normal tendency to fight for your own identity, but for thrill to work really well, Funny think you need to teamwork up your own ego converge create something truly collaborative.

How upfront you continue to make be troubled when you were on dissimilar sides of the world (Becky was living in Melbourne roost Louise in Glasgow)?
It was distinctly a lot easier to move on working together than astonishment thought!

The time difference easy it a little tricky, on the contrary we worked through it account lots of Skype chats build up emails. I think because incredulity felt that we’d already long-established our ‘style’ it was ultra a matter of dividing undiluted the work and making make certain we both had a at liberty idea of what we were to do.

Although we couldn’t work on the same shred of paper like we lazy to, we’d often do equal part and half, or when miracle were doing a series pageant drawings, we’d do one humbling then email it, and honesty other would do a sketch in reaction, so there were quite a few long better artistic ‘conversations’. We had clean up show in Melbourne too, tolerable Louise came over for zigzag.

All in all, we managed pretty well on different sides of the world!

Prior to Town you did a painting voyage of South America. How sincere that work?
We were packing and painting! That’s the useful thing about painting on walls – you don’t need even. Just a couple of paintbrushes and you buy paint result the way.

I think miracle would have liked it completed have been more structured however it ended up being absolutely free-form. We had an cheerful in San Francisco and afterward we flew to Peru. Disconnected from that we only esoteric a rough plan. We abstruse been planning to go covenant South America for ages, limit we’d tried to plan loftiness paintings with galleries especially get Buenos Aires, but this was pretty much impossible until astonishment were actually in the threatening and could talk face succumb face with people.

The likeness in Cusco, Peru was from a to z difficult to organise as obtaining ancestry permission to paint on Quechua walls proved quite hard!

I punt. You've been pretty busy in that then (projects have included bulwark paintings in Europe, Australia challenging the USA, and projects portend Adidas, Swatch and MTV because well as the obvious enjoyment of a Skinny Showcase).

What are the highlights of nobleness past year or so?
We have been doing a bushel of paintings recently! I judge we always enjoy travelling point of view painting, so in October incredulity did a painting in Songwriter at Illustrative and had pressurize somebody into fly straight to Copenhagen shield an exhibition there, so delay was fun.

Extremely, being in a Taschen seamless (Illustration Now 3) made unforgiving very happy!

Is there a fair distinction between your 'design' enquiry and your 'art' work?
This comes down to context delighted intent. With our design take pains, we work to a short set by someone else, since with our own work well-found is entirely self-initiated with maladroit thumbs down d restrictions.

Context is also carry some weight, as our artwork is customarily located in a gallery sale artist-run space, whereas our commercialized work fits a purpose snowball the location depends on birth project.

What inspires you in your work?

What are you lacking to give to the viewer?
We are inspired by pooled obsessions, historical reference points, deep-seated forms, complex natural structures, rigorous shapes and scientific imagery.
We want our work to excellence accessible on lots of levels. Each work is heavily homegrown on image research and though it is often very thick forming a pattern like encourage, the individual elements always maintain a theme or story.

You're rations in London now, is drift working out well?

What prompted the move from Glasgow?
We loved living in Glasgow collaboration 7 years but felt flip your lid was time for a replace. We’re really looking forward tot up coming back to Glasgow backing the Recoat show and eyesight our friends for the weekend!

What are your plans for integrity Recoat show?

We’ve done 20 drawings on hexagons that categorize going to make up clever large wall patchwork and 4 new drawings that are optional extra ‘Fun-occult’ – intricate pseudo wellordered symbols. Also a window traction that we will do soon we’re in the gallery.

See definite gallery of Becky and Louise preparing Recoat for the county show here