About
Awarded the Turner Prize in 2001 for ‘Work 227: The lights going on and off,’ Creed has become known for hugely varied work which is by turns uncompromising, entertaining, shocking and beautiful.
Image: Martin Creed, Work No. 3772, 2022 – 2023, 30.5 x 25.5 cm / 12 x 10 in © Martin Creed. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2022. Photo: Damian Griffiths
About the artist
‘Creed is a social artist; the true magic of his work lies in the way it interacts with people and places.’ Jones, Jonathan, ‘Martin Creed’s stairway to heaven,’ in theguardian.co.uk, London, UK, 1 August 2011, ill. (on Work No. 1059)
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