To all of you - Thank you
A special thanks to my sister Tazeim for her love, support and perseverance including Maz, Azher, Shaban, Kamran, Marium, Henna and family. Also, my appreciation goes to all my friends, especially Martyn Eastwood, John Costello, David Lindsay-Coggins , Jan Scott and Brian Cox, who have all helped and encouraged me through this intense and significant period of my career.
I would like to thank 20-21 Visual Arts Centre, especially Dominic Mason for his guidance throughout the project and the rest of the team for their much-appreciated support, and the opportunity to work within such a wonderful environment.
Thanks to John Hardwich for his invaluable experience in editing the texts for the ‘Dream Maade Manifest’ publication, all the writers for their contributions and support, Jean Vacher for her support of the project from the outset, Helen Joseph for her belief and recognition from an early stage in my career, Alan Grieve for his continued encouragement and patronage, Peter Randall-Page for his kind advice and for giving me the opportunity to work at his studios and for the kind loan of his materials and tools, Oliver Ulmer for taking time out of his busy schedule to write and Andrew Lambirth and Edmund de Waal for their wonderful essays. Martin Brotherich at Hansons, Accrington Bricks for allowing me the use of their materials and facilities.
I would like to thank Paul Heaton sincerely and the whole of his team at Reform Creative for their inspiring work and for producing such wonderful publications yet again.
Thank you to Emmanuel Cooper and Jonathan Harris for their contributions to the publication of ‘Carved Earth’.
