In 2011 Martin Creed playfully filled the spectacular sea-facing galleries at Tate St Ives with hundreds of balloons. We met up with him to chat about his iconic Work No. 200 Half the Air in a Given Space.
Martin Creed at Tate St Ives
Martin Creed responds to the space, structure, and light of Tate St Ives with a characteristically playful installation
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Artist
Martin Creed
born 1968
Tate St Ives
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Conceptual art
Conceptual art is art for which the idea (or concept) behind the work is more important than the finished art object. It emerged as an art movement in the 1960s and the term usually refers to art made from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s.
Installation art
The term installation art is used to describe large-scale, mixed-media constructions, often designed for a specific place or for a temporary period of time