A close friend of Caulfield, Peter Blake, works in a very different environment. Blake, whose varied canon is often rather unfairly dismissed with a nod to his Sergeant Pepper sleeve for the Beatles, works in a 3,500 sq ft studio in west London. Full of what he calls 'works in progress', the space comprises a series of rooms where he sculpts, paints, or does woodwork surrounded by a huge variety of objects, from antique midget cowboy boots to Elvis lamps. While Caulfield requires blank space, Blake surrounds himself with objects. Both say that the ideas evolve in their head regardless of materials in a studio, yet nonetheless have completely different workplaces.
Studios are incredibly articulate, but really no more so than a kitchen.
It is a pretty tall order to convincingly tie the equation Wentworth mentions to somebody's work. But a more straightforward connection between the place and the artist became apparent when I went to see Gavin Turk, whose contribution to Ant Noises 2 is Death of Che. Turk spends his day in a room about 20 feet above the bustle of one of London's busiest and most littered streets. Turk is explaining how sculpture, for him, is more involved in the process of physical creation than what surrounds him, when our attention turns to his latest project.