Jeremy Deller

Jeremy Deller is an artist and author. He was born in London in 1966 and studied History of Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art. Jeremy is known for his politically and socially charged performance work, and won the Turner Prize in 2004 for Memory Bucket, a documentary about Crawford, Texas – the hometown of George W Bush – and the siege in Waco. He is also known for the Battle of Orgreave (2001), a recreation of a violent British labor clash that was one of the key incidents during the Miners’ Strike of 1984, and his proposal for the 2009 Fourth Plinth, The Spoils of War (Memorial for an unknown civilian) which was to re-assemble and place on the fourth Plinth the remains of a vehicle that had been destroyed in an Iraq war bombing.

Jeremy has exhibited throughout Europe and America and publications include Life is to Blame for Everything, (Salon3/Arts Council, 2001), A True Revolutionary is Motivated by Great Feelings of Love (CVA Cardiff, 2000) and The Uses of Literacy (Book Works, 1999).