Martin Creed
Turner Prize winner for The lights going on and off, 2001
Current exhibition, The Fruitmarket, Edinburgh, Down over up
‘…he puts ideas out in the world in a variety of materials yet not all of them everyday stuff either (while he makes work with readily available, simple things such as planks of wood, stacked chairs or pieces of crumbled paper, he also uses paint…’
Reflection
Use of readily available materials but the materials seen to have embodied with any historical references as opposed to Carlos Garaicoa social commentary on the various situations in Havana.
