Martin Creed

Martin Creed (born 1968) is an English artist noted for his works which are grounded in the conceptual art of the 1960s and 1970s. He won the Turner Prize in 2001. Martin Creed was born in Wakefield and brought up in Glasgow. He studied art at the Slade School of Art in University College, London from 1986 to 1990. Since 1987, Creed has numbered each of his works, and most of his titles relate in a very direct way to the piece's substance. 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.