MARTIN CREED. WORKS

MARTIN CREED (1968-)

This is the first comprehensive survey of the work and career of Turner Prize-winning artist Martin Creed – more than 700 works produced over twenty years, selected by the artist himself.

Renowned for his straightforward approach to making art and his deft economy of means, Creed has produced sculptures, installations, drawings, films, performances, music and text, each of which has found its inspiration in the objects and activities of everyday life.

Always in search of the essential nature of things, Creed uses the simplest materials to create a world in which reality appears transformed by conceptual rules, as well as by the unexpected breaking of those rules.

His work is subtle and spectacular, austere and playful – a sheet of paper crumpled into a ball, a door opening and closing, the lights going on and off, or a soundtrack inside a moving lift.

The book features a foreword by the artist and accompanying texts by
    Tom Eccles
    Massimiliano Gioni
    Germaine Greer
    Matthew Higgs
    Barry Humphries
    Tess Jaray
    Darian Leader
    John O’Reilly
    Colm Tóibín
and others, supplemented by an exhibition history, bibliography and biography.