00:00My name is Keith Tyson. I got the idea of just growing a hedge at first, and I had these
00:10little bushes growing, you know, just a straight hedge, and I thought, well, that's a bit
00:14dull. I really ought to do something with it, and I just started to cut it a little
00:20bit nearer to this sort of shape. Yeah, I've had a sort of female figure there for, no,
00:27I think I've had it for about two and a half years, I should think. Yeah, and I kept refining
00:32it a bit, you know, I mean, a lot of it was not quite so descriptive. It's more descriptive
00:37now than it was perhaps five years ago. Well, I have had people kind of get a bit sort of
00:45tipsy and get excited by this figure. That's a bit of a worry, because they can sit on
00:51it or something, you know. I've had people try and move her about a bit, you know, and
00:57that really is worrying, because I'd really rather them not touch it at all. And, you
01:03know, when people are a little bit tipsy, they get a bit sort of tricky. So I do have
01:09to try and be, well, careful how I deal with them. Yeah, generally, people wandering by
01:16and finding it quite amusing, you know, which is exactly what I would like, you know, it's
01:21what I wanted it to do. I always have other little projects on the go, because I design
01:27and make things, you know. I've got a workshop where I produce work in metal, mainly metal,
01:35and I've been involved in some of the metal objects in Sheffield that we have on show,
01:40you know, some of the sort of street art, really, I suppose it is, and some of the sort
01:46of quite serious stuff down by the station, the big abstract figures that you walk by
01:53when you come out of the station, on the railway station. So I did those jointly with two other
02:02artists, who are my ex-students, actually. They were once students in what was my department
02:09in the Politechnic.
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