Quay Arts is delighted to announce a new contemporary art exhibition of works by Turner Prize winning artist and musician Martin Creed.
The exhibition, which opens on Friday 13th June, will show eight signature pieces by Creed, who won the Turner Prize in 2001 for his controversial Work No.227 The Lights going on and off.
Explore Creed’s vision
This summer, Quay Arts invites you to explore Creed’s unique vision through video, neon text, drawings and paintings. Creed’s work often surprises and challenges us on the nature of contemporary art and twists our expectations with humour, repetition and, often, impulsive works.
He is renowned for his straightforward approach to making art, often using simple materials to create sculptures, installations, drawings, films, music and text.
ARTIST ROOMS collection
The works on display are taken from ARTIST ROOMS, an inspirational collection of modern and contemporary art acquired for the nation by Tate and The National Galleries of Scotland through the generosity of Anthony d’Offay with additional support from funders, including the Art Fund.
The ARTIST ROOMS tour programme, now in its sixth year, is showing at 18 museums and galleries across the UK in 2014. The tour is made possible thanks to the support of Arts Council England and the Art Fund.
Through Quay Arts’ involvement in the internationally renowned Isle of Wight Music Festival, Creed’s work will have the opportunity to touch new audiences through his music as well as his visual art.
Collaboration with Young Quay
Quay Arts have also been able to borrow a wall painting, Work No. 1340 from the artist and Hauser & Wirth, which has been created in the gallery by Young Quay based on a detailed set of instructions written by Martin which form the work.
Young Quay are Quay Arts’ youth group (ages 14-17) who have been working closely with Quay Arts’ Visual Arts Team to explore and investigate Creed’s work, as well as having the opportunity to visit Creed’s recent retrospective at the Hayward Gallery on London’s South Bank earlier this year.
Working with ARTIST ROOMS has enabled Quay Arts to start work on bringing the gallery spaces into the 21st Century by upgrading them with new environmental and security installations. This work on the gallery will position Quay Arts to be able to present an ever more ambitious and exciting visual arts programme now and in the future.
The exhibition runs until Saturday 20th September 2014 and entry is free.
Background
Martin Creed was born in 1968 in Wakefield, and grew up in Glasgow. He studied at the Slade School of Fine Art and first came to prominence as an artist during the 1990s and has exhibited extensively worldwide.
Recent solo exhibitions include Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (2008), The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh (2010) and his first retrospective held at the Hayward Gallery (2013). Creed also produced a piece of work commissioned to mark the opening of the London Olympics called Work No.1197, which consisted of all the bells in a country rung as quickly and as loudly as possible for three minutes at 8.12am on 27 July 2012.
To find out more information about ARTIST ROOMS On Tour please visit the Website. To see the full ARTIST ROOMS collection please visit the Tate Website and National Galleries of Scotland Website.
