Steven Claydon: 'I think the reason I started making these things was because of the gulf I perceive between the public or institutional modes of artistic production and the private and commercial, and also how we understand pre-avant-garde or pre-Modernist art to be , to be or any movement that supplants another with all the incumbent rewriting of history and self - aggrandisement. The fin de siècle threshold. Impressionism and Modernism, and the Doric and Ionic. So in the case of the difference between the public face of art and the private nature of it, most people's understanding of Public art is sculpture for a start, except for the odd mural. Mostly they're representations of historical figures, unless it's a Henry Moore or something like that. Invariably it's figurative and most often than not the subject is patriarchal. On top of that these works are representations of people we've mostly never heard of, and it struck me that we encounter this stuff everyday, and take it for granted...'