Born: Dublin, 1941

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Michael Craig-Martin's large wall paintings invite the viewer to consider the nature of the things he depicts rather than that of their representation, though the latter can never be ignored. In Store Room, the wall painting he has made for Intelligence, he describes a series of everyday objects in black outline, including ladders, filing cabinets, fire extinguishers, lamps and globes. Floating over these outlines, a series of coloured objects anchor the corners and centre of each wall. These objects refer to both everyday items and famous twentieth-century films and works of art. For example, Man Ray's surrealist iron with spikes hovers above the door next to a fire extinguisher and tin of paintbrushes.

Craig-Martin's images are reduced to the bare essentials necessary for the viewer to categorise the things portrayed, but his references to specific moments in cultural history complicate any easy identification of the objects. Instead of simply recognising them and moving on, we are asked to read each object as a carrier of multiple possibilities.