Jeremy Deller

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Jeremy Deller

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Jeremy Deller born 1966 in London, Lives in London.

All Jeremy Deller projects donated to MoRE museum were originally selected by the artist himself to be exhibited in the monographic retrospective show Joy in People, and published in the exhibition catalogue section entitled “My Failures (2004-present)”: in his own words ‘a section of works that I wish I’d been able to make but wasn’t able to’.

http://www.jeremydeller.org

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Deller, Jeremy

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Fourth Plinth Proposals
Jeremy Deller presented two proposals as part of the major public art project connected to the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square, London, which have never been realized. The Fourth Plinth was originally built in the second half of the nineteenth…

Iggy Pop Life Drawing Class
The project consisted of inviting an icon of popular culture – such as Iggy Pop – to pose, without revealing his identity to the students, as a model for a drawing class. The results of these sessions would then be donated and preserved at the…

Mission Accomplished
Jeremy Deller, invited to the Carnegie International in 2004, presented this project—which can be linked to a broader series of research and reflections on the contemporary war in Iraq—with the intention of displaying one of his large banners on the…

Proposal for the Olympic Park Gateways
Jeremy Deller proposed a structure similar to Stonehenge, or simply menhir-like, to mark the entrances and exits of the Olympic Park, which was to host stadiums and other facilities in London in 2012. The deliberate ambiguity lay in creating a…

Rejected Tube Map Cover Illustration
This was the first idea proposed by Jeremy Deller after he was commissioned by TfL to design the cover of an edition of the London Underground map, distributed free of charge in all stations. The proposed design initially featured a bicycle, composed…
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