Jeremy Deller, artist.

Desert Island Discs

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Society & Culture, Music Commentary, Music, Personal Journals

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🗓️ 6 January 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

The Turner Prize-winning artist Jeremy Deller is perhaps best known for We’re Here Because We’re Here, a moving and powerful memorial to the Battle of the Somme, and The Battle of Orgreave – a re-enactment of the confrontation between police and pickets at the height of the miners’ strike. Deller doesn’t paint, draw or sculpt and his work encompasses film, photography and installations. At school his creative endeavours were not always appreciated, and at 13 he was asked to leave the art class. His lifelong love of history was ignited by childhood trips to museums with his father, and is evident in the subjects he addresses, from Stonehenge, which he re-created as a giant bouncy castle, to William Morris. He managed to meet Andy Warhol in London in 1986 and went to spend two formative weeks at Warhol’s New York City studio, the Factory. The experience crystallised in Deller the belief that art can come in many forms and that an artist can create their own world of ideas. His memorial to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the Peterloo Massacre will be unveiled in August 2019. BOOK CHOICE: An A to Z London Street Atlas LUXURY: A stretch of road over Hay Bluff between Hay-on-Wye and Abergavenny. CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Out of the Blue by Roxy Music. Presenter: Lauren Laverne Producer: Paula McGinley

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts
0:04.8	Hello, I'm Lauren LeVern and this is the Desert Island Disks Podcast.
0:08.5	Every week I ask my guests to choose the eight tracks, book and luxury they'd want to take
0:13.2	with them if they were cast away to a desert island.
0:16.4	For right reasons, the music is shorter than the original broadcast.
0:20.6	I hope you enjoy listening.
0:30.0	Music Music
0:44.0	My cast away this week is the artist Jeremy Deller, a Turner prize winner he is equally
0:49.1	unconventional and influential.
0:51.4	He doesn't paint, draw or sculpt.
0:53.7	His art includes installations, film, photography and what he calls cultural interventions.
0:59.8	In July 2016, passes by were astonished when hundreds of World War I soldiers appeared
1:05.2	unannounced at railway stations, bus stops and shopping centres from Plymouth to Shetland.
1:11.2	This was a powerful Jeremy Deller memorial to the Battle of the Somme.
1:15.8	His work is often about doing things rather than making things and is rooted in a life-long
1:21.0	fascination with British culture, from seaside towns to Stonehenge via the Battle of Orgriffe.
1:27.9	Other works have included a brass band playing acid house tracks, millions of bats flying
1:32.2	out of a cave and a car destroyed in a bomb attack during the Iraq War.
1:37.3	There were early clues that he would become an artist who does things differently.
1:41.5	One of his first creative endeavors was making a three-foot model of a locust.
1:45.6	He took it to school on the back of his bike, only to find out that all the other kids
1:49.6	had made their model insects actual size.
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