Martin Creed

Quick Facts

Full Name	Martin Creed
Occupation	Composer
Date Of Birth	Oct 21, 1968(1968-10-21)
Age	56
Birthplace	Wakefield
Country	Jamaica
Birth City	Trelawny Parish
Horoscope	Libra

Martin Creed Biography

Martin Creed is one of the most popular and richest Composer who was born on October 21, 1968 in Wakefield, Trelawny Parish, Jamaica.

Martin Creed was born in Wakefield, England. He moved with his family to Glasgow at age 3 when his silversmith father got a job teaching there. He grew up revering art and music. His parents were Quakers, and he was taken often to Quaker meetings. He attended Lenzie Academy, and studied art at the Slade School of Art at University College London from 1986 to 1990. Since then he has lived in London, apart from a period (2000—2004) living in Alicudi, an island off Sicily in the South of Italy. He currently lives and works back in London. He is a vegan.

Films, installations, paintings, theatre and live-action sculptures are all characteristic of his work. Making use of whatever medium seems suitable. Since 1987 he has numbered each of his works, and most of his titles are descriptive: for example Work No. 79: some Blu-tack kneaded, rolled into a ball and depressed against a wall (1993) and Work No. 88, a sheet of A4 paper crumpled into a ball (1994). Creed’s work Work No. 200: Half the air in a given space (1998) is a room which has half of its cubic space filled with balloons.

Martin Creed Net Worth

Martin Creed is one of the richest Composer from Jamaica. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Martin Creed 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Martin Creed (born 21 October 1968) is a British artist, composer and performer. He won the Turner Prize in 2001 for exhibitions during the preceding year, with the jury praising his audacity for exhibiting a single installation, Work No. 227: The lights going on and off, in the Turner Prize show. Creed lives and works in London.

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Creed’s Work No. 975 EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE ALRIGHT, was installed on the facade of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in November 2009. Although Work No. 975 is a unique sculpture, the phrase has been used on several related works, each assigned its own work number. Previous to Work No. 975, a red neon text appeared in New York’s Times Square (Work No.225 1999, commissioned by Public Art Fund), a thirty-metre-long version was installed in Detroit (Work No.790 2007), and another text in white neon ran the 75 ft length of the Rennie Museum’s façade in Vancouver’s Chinatown (Work No.851 2008). Most recently, a 46-metre multicoloured version was commissioned for Christchurch Art Gallery, in the advent of its reopening after almost five years of earthquake-related closure.

Facts & Trivia

Miriam Ranked on the list of most popular Composer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Jamaica. Martin Creed celebrates birthday on October 21 of every year.

In 2010, he provided the cover art for a Futuristic Retro Champions single, while supporting its launch with an appearance with his own band.

What is Martin Creed known for?

Martin Creed is a contemporary British artist known for his installations that incorporate vernacular objects such as balloons. Often purposefully irritating to his audience, Creed creates works that make people reconsider their understanding of art.

Is Martin Creed Scottish?

Born in Yorkshire and raised in Glasgow , Martin Creed came to prominence in 2001 when he won the Turner prize with Work 227: The lights going on and off’.

What type of artist is Martin Creed?

Contemporary art

What was the name of the award that Martin Creed one for his light switch

piece?

Martin Creed, the artist who “doesn’t make art” because the world is already too cluttered with the stuff, last night won the Turner Prize and immediately set the glitterati guessing.

Why is it called the Turner Prize?

The Turner Prize, named after the English painter J. M. W. Turner , is an annual prize presented to a British visual artist. Between 1991 and 2016, only artists under the age of 50 were eligible (this restriction was removed for the 2017 award).