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Martin Creed

Martin Creed (Born 1968) is active/lives in England, Scotland.  Martin Creed is known for Installation artist, light-themes.

Martin Creed is a British artist and musician.

Martin Creed was born in Wakefield, England, and brought up in Glasgow, Scotland. He studied art at the Slade School of Art* at University College London from 1986 to 1990.

Since 1987, Creed has numbered each of his works, and most of his titles are deadpan and descriptive. Work No. 79: some Blu-tack kneaded, rolled into a ball and depressed against a wall (1993), for example, is just what it sounds like, as is Work No. 88, a sheet of A4 paper crumpled into a ball (1994). One of Creed's best known works is Work No. 200, half the air in a given space (1998), which is a room half-filled with balloons.  Creed's Work No 850 is an athlete running through the Tate Britain gallery.

In 1996, Richard Long and Roger Ackling selected Creed to exhibit at EASTinternational.

Creed is perhaps best known for his submission for the 2001 Turner Prize show at the Tate Gallery, Work No. 227,   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 5583 characters.]  Artist bio

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