The YBA sculptor who became the first woman to win the Turner prize feels lucky to have been able to live off her art Related: The seven ages of an artist I was born in Ilford,Essex. When I was seven, we moved to London’s Muswell Hill which in those days was rough and ready. I went to Creighton comprehensive school – it was terrible, or an experiment. But the art department,with Eileen Rapley and Lesley Burgess, was great. I plonked my way through school doing as puny as possible. I thought I was most interested in science. I didn’t want to achieve art because my mum was an artist. But once I got involved in art in the sixth form, and I was there.
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Source: theguardian.com