Martin Creed

born 1968

Martin Creed, ‘Work No. 203: EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE ALRIGHT’ 1999
Work No. 203: EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE ALRIGHT 1999
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Martin Creed (born 21 October 1968) is a British artist, composer and performer. He won the Turner Prize in 2001 for exhibitions during the preceding year, with the jury praising his audacity for exhibiting a single installation, Work No. 227: The lights going on and off, in the Turner Prize show. Creed lives and works in London.

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    Now is for ever, again: The everyday

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  • Martin Creed Work Number 878 2008

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    Nothing works: The void

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    Marcel Duchamp’s phial of Paris air, Yves Klein’s The Void exhibition, Martin Creed’s Work No.227: The lights going on and …

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    The death of the body

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    The body matters, more than at any other time in history. As Abi Titmuss appears in a Sapphic embrace on …

  • Martin Creed The lights going on and off 2000

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    But is it installation art?

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    What does the term ‘installation art’ mean? Does it apply to big dark rooms that you stumble into to watch …

  • Keith Farquhar John Lewis Partnership 2000

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    Awkward Relations

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    This paper focuses on practices that captured critical and curatorial attention in Scotland and England at the turn of this …

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