20 Questions with Paul Yore
Your first art crush?
Hieronymus Bosch.
A favourite image or phrase you’ve placed in one of your tapestries?
“SEE YOU IN HELL!” is always a crowd-pleaser.
The most interesting thing someone has said to you about your work?
Someone once told me my work ‘changed their life’. I hope they meant for the better …
Best time of day to create?
I still think the middle of the night is the most creative time, the witching hour … but I’m getting too old for that!
Beauty or politics?
Politics is, in some ways, the pursuit of beauty. The dismantling of destructive systems of exploitation and the creation of classless and caring modes of social engagement is, in some ways, nothing more than the re-beautification of the
