You would have thought that someone like me would have paid more attention to david Bowie. Given my taste in clothes and attitudes towards gender, you would have thought I would reference bowie regularly. Watching the news articles and tv programs about him last night, I began to wonder how this man crept under my radar. How did I never notice David Bowie? He stood for and encapsulated pretty much everything I stand for and try to say in my art – gender play, and the challenging of traditional gender boundaries. The truth is I just had him down in my mind as some old eighties pop singer, and never stopped to consider what he was saying. I’m rather embarrassed to admit that now. Well, now I know a bit more about this fascinating character, it’s time to put that right; it’s just a shame it took the announcement of his death for me to become aware of him.