My latest painting ‘Come out and find the one you love, OK’ features the Russian performance artist Oleg Kulik chained to a bear (detail below). Exteme performance artist Kulik is infamous for living his life like an animal (a dog to be more specific) in pieces such as Mad Dog and I Bite America and America Bites Me. In these performances Kulik wants to highlight the fact that humans behave like beasts to each other. I watched him perform when I worked on Live Culture at Tate Modern in 2005, where he spun like a mirrorball covered in mirror tiles above a dancefloor in the Turbine Hall. No dog-like behaviour that night, but his choice in 80s power rock was beastly.

I was at the Guildhall last night helping out with the Man Booker Prize dinner. The Indian writer Aravind Adiga won the prize for his debut novel ‘The White Tiger’. He was handed the trophy which I designed, but left it sitting lonely on the lectern when he left the stage. The trophy will now be engraved before it follows Aravind back to Mumbai.

Aravind with the lovely trophy

I have been working for some time now rebranding the Man Booker Prizes for Hoop Associates. This is to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the literary prize, and to bring the relatively new International Prize (two winners so far, Nigeria’s Chinua Achebe and the Albanian Ismail Kadaré) into the family. As part of the project I got to design new trophies for all the prizes (see below) one of which is now on display at London’s V&A (Modern Room) as part of a small exhibition about the prize.