I was born in St. Martin in Thurn/Dolomites in South Tyrol/Italy, and studied art at the Wolkenstein School of Art and Hallein School of Art, Austria and the Akademie der Kunst, Munich, before moving to England. George was born in Plymouth in the United Kingdom, and first studied art at the Dartington Hall College of Art and the Oxford School of Art, then part of the Oxford College of Technology, which eventually became Oxford Brookes University.
We first met on 25th September 1967 while studying sculpture at St Martins School of Art, now Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, one of six colleges in the University of the Arts, London. We came together because George was the only person who could understand my rather poor spoken English. In a 2002 interview with The Daily Telegraph we said of our meeting: "it was love at first sight." It is widely assumed that we are lovers, and although we dismiss questions about our sex lives, George, in the documentary 'Imagine', aired in the UK, referred to me and himself as "two poofs".
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