Martin Creed
What You Find
May 22 - September 11, 2016
Somerset
'You find yourself here in this world with feelings and thoughts. It's difficult to accept what you find you do. But if you can it seems to help.' – Martin Creed
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Events
Family Saturday
Join us for our next Family Saturday exploring the exhibition ‘Martin Creed. What You Find’. In this session, we will consider how we can make art about ourselves. How can everyday items become sculpture and what information do you need to make a self portrait? You will need to bring along packaging from some of your favourite items such as cereal or chocolate boxes, toy packaging, or paper or plastic bags etc. This is a free event, however advanced booking is essential as there are limited places To book a place please email somerset@hauserwirth.com or call +44 1749 81 4060 Please meet at Front Desk at 10 am Hauser & Wirth Somerset invites families into the gallery for Family Saturday on the first Saturday of every month. These free sessions offer families a unique experience of art, design and nature. Image: Installation view, ‘Martin Creed. What You Find’, Hauser & Wirth Somerset, 2016. Photo: Jamie Woodley
Exhibition Tour
Join us for a tour of ‘Martin Creed. What You Find’ led by Hauser & Wirth Somerset Associate Director, Lucy MacDonald. The walking tour will lead guests through the galleries whilst discussing significant works in the exhibition. Martin Creed was born in Wakefield, England in 1968 and grew up in Glasgow. He lives and works in London and Alicudi, Italy. Creed has exhibited extensively worldwide and in 2001 he won the Turner Prize for ‘Work No. 227: The lights going on and off’. ‘Work No. 2630: UNDERSTANDING’, a 25-foot-tall rotating red neon work by Creed is currently on view at the Brooklyn Bridge Park, Pier 6 until 23 October 2016 in New York City, commissioned by Public Art Fund. Creed is currently exhibiting in New York’s Park Avenue Armory in an exhibition curated by Tom Eccles and Hans-Ulrich Obrist running from 8 June – 7 August 2016. On 8 July 2016, Martin Creed and his band will release a new album ‘Thoughts Lined Up’ through Telephone Records. This event is free, however booking is essential. Image: Martin Creed, Work No. 2656 Understanding (film still), 2016
A Talk by Germaine Greer in Response to ‘Martin Creed. What You Find’
Hauser & Wirth Somerset is delighted to host a talk with Germaine Greer on the occasion of Martin Creed’s solo exhibition ‘What You Find’. Greer will respond to the works on display and discuss the artist’s recent practice. ‘The ultimate irony is that, if I should now write that I think Creed is a great artist, I shall have proved him a failure. He would rather I said I love what he does, which would be the truth.’ – Germaine Greer Germaine Greer was born in Melbourne and educated in Australia and at Cambridge University. Her first book, ‘The Female Eunuch’ (1969), took the world by storm and remains one of the most influential texts of the feminist movement. Germaine Greer has had a distinguished academic career in Britain and the USA. She makes regular appearances in print and other media as a broadcaster, journalist, columnist and reviewer. Since 2001 she has been involved in rehabilitating sixty hectares of subtropical rainforest in south-east Queensland; in 2011 she set up Friends of Gondwana Rainforest, a UK charity, to help in financing that and similar projects. Tickets are £15 Quote from Germaine Greer’s essay ‘When Nothing is Enough’ published in ‘Martin Creed. Works’, Thames & Hudson, London, UK, 2010 Image: © Neil Spence Photography
Exhibition Tour
Join us for a tour of ‘Martin Creed. What You Find’ led by Hauser & Wirth Somerset’s Head of Education, Debbie Hillyerd. The walking tour will lead guests through the galleries whilst discussing significant works in the exhibition. Martin Creed was born in Wakefield, England in 1968 and grew up in Glasgow. He lives and works in London and Alicudi, Italy. Creed has exhibited extensively worldwide and in 2001 he won the Turner Prize for ‘Work No. 227: The lights going on and off’. ‘Work No. 2630: UNDERSTANDING’, a 25-foot-tall rotating red neon work by Creed is currently on view at the Brooklyn Bridge Park, Pier 6 until 23 October 2016 in New York City, commissioned by Public Art Fund. Creed is currently exhibiting in New York’s Park Avenue Armory in an exhibition curated by Tom Eccles and Hans-Ulrich Obrist running from 8 June – 7 August 2016. On 8 July 2016, Martin Creed and his band will release a new album ‘Thoughts Lined Up’ through Telephone Records. This event is free, however booking is essential. Image: Martin Creed, Work No. 2656 Understanding (film still), 2016
Exhibition Tour
Join us for a tour of ‘Martin Creed. What You Find’ led by Hauser & Wirth Somerset Senior Director, Alice Workman. The walking tour will lead guests through the galleries whilst discussing significant works in the exhibition. Martin Creed was born in Wakefield, England in 1968 and grew up in Glasgow. He lives and works in London and Alicudi, Italy. Creed has exhibited extensively worldwide and in 2001 he won the Turner Prize for ‘Work No. 227: The lights going on and off’. ‘Work No. 2630: UNDERSTANDING’, a 25-foot-tall rotating red neon work by Creed is currently on view at the Brooklyn Bridge Park, Pier 6 until 23 October 2016 in New York City, commissioned by Public Art Fund. Creed is currently exhibiting in New York’s Park Avenue Armory in an exhibition curated by Tom Eccles and Hans-Ulrich Obrist running from 8 June – 7 August 2016. On 8 July 2016, Martin Creed and his band will release a new album ‘Thoughts Lined Up’ through Telephone Records. This event is free, however booking is essential. Image: Installation view, ‘Martin Creed. What You Find’, Hauser & Wirth Somerset, 2016. Photo: Jamie Woodley
About the artist
‘Creed is a social artist; the true magic of his work lies in the way it interacts with people and places.’—Jonathan Jones, ‘Martin Creed’s stairway to heaven,’ in The Guardian, London, UK, 1 August 2011, ill. (on Work No. 1059)
