Matthew Slotover

Yeah, well, I studied psychology at university.

I've never had a day's training in art or art history in my life.

Growing up, I loved design, photography, but I didn't really understand contemporary art.

It just didn't grab me.

And historical art didn't really mean anything to me.

I was rejected from my school for my art O-level course because my drawing wasn't good enough.

So I always kind of maybe had a bit of an interest, but it was just never sparked.

And I left university.

I didn't know what I wanted to do.

I knew I didn't want to do psychology.

And I had a friend at St.

Martin's, and we began to look at art.

And it was just around the time that all of the Damien Hirst, Carl Friedman warehouse shows were being shown.

And I just thought it was amazing.

Rob's gallery that he works with, it's his partner, Carl Friedman Gallery.

And Carl...

He's like the ghost in the room because he was almost my kind of mentor right at the beginning.

Someone said, you've got to go and see this show.

It's in a warehouse in Brotherhive.

And we walked in and it was just this huge warehouse with beautiful white walls and grey floor with Damien Hirst's Flykiller piece in it and Michael Landy and like lots of amazing artists and Carl had curated it.