Artist

  • Martin Creed
michaellett.com

"I went to an art shop and I did not know what brushes to get, so I got a multi-pack. I do not know what is best. Nothing is best. It could be anything. I want everything to be in it. I want to do something without judging or choosing. One cannot judge. It is always artificial. Nothing is best. Things are whatever they are really. Everything really is what it is. In these paintings the different colours can live together in a chord, like a happy family, like the three bears, like flying ducks, like favourite socks in a drawer, like sweet layers of a cake, like steps on a staircase to heaven. A step pyramid is solid and easy to understand. It is a safe structure that is not going to fall down. It is trustworthy. You can see how it is built. The steps are hopefully leading to the top, and you can enjoy the colours on the way up. In a blobby, soupy, ill-defined world it can be helpful to put your ducks in a row."

– Martin Creed, 2025

Martin Creed was born in Wakefield, England, in 1968 and grew up in Glasgow, Scotland. Today he lives and works in London. He has exhibited extensively worldwide and won the Turner Prize in 2001 for The lights going on and off.

Creed first exhibited at Michael Lett in 2006, with Work No. 329: Half the Air in a Given Space. This will be his fourth solo presentation with the gallery.

Please note, there will be no preview for this exhibition, and on Thursday 6 February the gallery will be closed in observance of Waitangi Day.

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