Murugiah

It took me a long time to understand.

Oh, no, no.

Have pride in your own work and focus on each piece and make it mean something very important.

I think the imposter syndrome of presenting in the Quentin Blake Center for Illustration, in this wider framing of your question, I don't think that will come until reactions, until the show is installed and we see how it's responded to.

That's probably where it'll suddenly dawn on me that I have a national exhibition where anyone can come and tell their opinion on this stuff.

They didn't matter until you have a responsibility to present an exhibition to members of the public where you want to celebrate a newly presented art form.

The Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration is saying, we are a national museum, a gallery space for illustration.

This is the home of illustration.

And that comes with needing the building to continue and to present future shows and to be a part of this culture in the UK of visiting exhibitions and going to art exhibits and national galleries.

Being one of the first people to be a part of that in the form of my show, there is a responsibility there.

And you do require people to come and to enjoy and to say whether they like it or not.

But you really need to get people through the door.

So I feel an immense sense of responsibility.

But before the show, before I even got the opportunity, I was making work for myself.

But now that it's being presented in this form, there's a responsibility to get people through the door.

I think...

Let's hope so.

I think I care so much because I know what it was like to not have these opportunities to... I...

27 years old, when I was crying my eyes out in my little room, my studio room, talking to my partner, saying, the work I'm doing doesn't make sense.

It doesn't mean anything to me.