Jeremy Deller info

• Quotes of Deller

  -          ‘My raw materials are people or history’ - Deller

  -          ‘When you don’t have technical skills, you survive by your wits’ – Deller
• technical aspects of his work

  -          Is an English conceptual, video and instillation artist

  . doesn’t produce typical sculptures or piece that can always be sold

  -          Studied at the Courtauld Institute of Art – doesn’t study an technical things – looks/experiments with more conceptual ideas

  -          He met Warhol and was inspired – started making art in the 90s

  . parallels between their work

  -          He won the Turner Prize in 2004

  -          YBA – both Damien Hirst and Jeremy Deller are in it – but they are both vert different in terms of their practises
• meaning and representation behind his work

  -          works often include large collaborative efforts

  . plays the role of an artist in a less conservative way – rather a director, curator…

  -          He is political -  his works have a political focus

  -          Deller bypasses typical things in the art world – permanence, sale, display….

  Conceptual artist in the way he does work with ideas and works with people and directs
• immersive aspect to his work

  -          Try’s not to make something but to do something – focussed on an impact

  -          Works with sound – ‘liberated me from working with object’ – talking about his work with a brass band

  -          Re-makes environment and feelings

  -          ‘social surrealism’  - this is how his practise is characterised

  -          He looks at social interventions

  -          He looks at folk music, banners, objects – he looks at objects that aren’t necessarily characterised as ‘Art’ but he engages with colour and culture and using that within his practise
• Makes art that is anti-consumerism and anti-art world