From acid house to ancient rites: Jeremy Deller’s enormous, collaborative, unsellable art

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The Guardian

Society & Culture

4.3 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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The artist Jeremy Deller can’t really draw or paint. Instead of making things, he makes things happen. And later this year, he is planning to unleash a bacchanalian festival that will be his most daring public artwork yet By Charlotte Higgins. Read by Richard Coyle. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

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