Anish Kapoor was from mixed parentage, his father was from india and his mother was from Iraq.
Born in Bombay and brought up in india in the 70's kapoor always felt like he didn't belong in that country he felt left out as if he was a foreigner because of his parents background.
His main aim in life during the earlier years was not just to be a sculpture, he grew up wanting to be a engineer.
So for six months of his life he went to an engineering college, but then he came to realise that it wasnt what he expected, so he came to London to study at two Art schools.
While he was at these Art schools, kapoor learnt about his own identity as an Artist.
At the tender age of 22 kapoor went back home to his native country India, still having that lingering feeling that he really didn't belong there anymore, because of his new lifestyle and view of life, he picked picked up a habits that were not in the nature of indians, these things are what made himstand out like a foreigner in his own homeland.
He also felt a similar way in England, but this was to be expected, to feel this way in your own homeland was quite depressing.
These feelings were brought across in his work, because the sculptures he produces have a uncertain quality about them, which relates to himself.
Kapoor is very experimentalin his approach to his work, he uses mixed media such as paper,string,twigs, and plaster to allow his ideas to flow and develope.
He never has a drawing of what he wants his sculpture to look like, because he does not know exactly how he wants it to be.
He messes around with the equipment he has, and just waits until he sees something he thinks would be suitable for a sculpture piece.
Anish Kapoor has his own stone masonry and sculpturesstore outside where he leaves his finished and unfinished work.
The hardest part of working in stone is getting rid of the mass ( carving away the centre).
Kapoor does a lot of commissions for councils and other organisations.
Kapoor worked on a project on a site in America in Chicago, the sculpture can cost up to hundreds of thousands of pounds and kapoor has to consider the weather,ageing and safety has to be thought of when making it.
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