Martin Creed

Martin Creed was born in 1968 in Wakefield, England. From the age of three he lived in Glasgow, Scotland. Between 1986 and 1990 he studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, London. After art school he lived and worked in London until 2001, when he moved to Alicudi, Italy. In 2001 he was the winner of the Turner Prize.

He currently lives and works in London and Alicudi.

Selected Writings on Martin Creed

THE LIGHTS OFF © Barry Humphries 2005
WORK NO. 227: THE LIGHTS GOING ON AND OFF Maurizio Cattelan, 2004
JOHN O'REILLY 1995

Selected Writings by Martin Creed

Selected Interviews

Listen to The Monocle Weekly's interview with Martin (0:36:14)
Listen to Martin talking and playing new songs on Radio New Zealand, 06 October 2015
Watch SHOWstudio's interview with Martin filmed by Nick Knight, December 2014
Watch Martin being interviewed by Mikel Toms, 31 January 2013
Watch Martin talking about The Scotsman Steps and singing 'The Staircase Song'
Reef Younis interviews Martin for Loud & Quiet Magazine. Photo by Phil Sharp., August 2012
Creed Invites Britain to Play With Him, Ring Bells, by Farah Nayeri, Bloomberg, 26 June 2012
Turner Winner Creed Ignores Jokes, Rings in Olympics, by Farah Nayeri, Bloomberg, 26 June 2012
Talking about music and dance; interview in Vancouver with Nardwuar the Human Serviette (interview at 1:14:39)
Talking to Fanny Kiefer, 18 May 2011
Talking to Will Gompertz, 20 January 2011
On BBC Breakfast, 25 January 2011
Talking to Paul Morley, 30 January 2011
Performance of Thinking/Not Thinking for The Observer, 31 January 2011
'Mothers' on Vernissage TV, 23 January 2011
Oliver Basciano interviews Martin Creed for ArtReview during rehearsals for Work No. 1020, 13 October 2009
Installation Documentary by Chris Keenan for Ikon Gallery, 2008
Tate Britain's interview with Martin Creed on Work No. 850, 2008
Pippa Hale of The Northern Art Prize interviews Martin Creed at Leeds Met's School of Contemporary Art and Graphic Design, 17 January 2008
RTE Television's The View interviews Martin Creed, 30 October 2007
Dazed Digital, Inside Art: Martin Creed, interviewed by Freire Barnes, 9 July 2007, www.dazeddigital.com
Radio New Zealand's Saturday Morning programme Interview with Kim Hill Saturday, 07 October 2006, 35' 39"
"Twenty (More) Questions" interview by Corinna Durland, The Wrong Times, Issue 1, 2004
Blow and Suck: Martin Creed interviewed by Jérôme Sans
Live, Palais de Tokyo / Éditions Cercle d'Art, 2004
Martin Creed interviewed by Chris Coombes for Tate Magazine Issue 27, 2001
20 Questions published in Untitled; interview with Martin Creed; text introduction by Matthew Higgs, 1998

Bibliography

2016

Smith, Roberta, 'Martin Creed's Anti-Spectacle at the Park Avenue Armory', The New York Times, 9 June
Searle, Adrian, 'Martin Creed: I keep hair. And I'm afraid of cheese', The Guardian, 18 May

2015

Fortenbury, Diane, Morrill, Rebecca (eds.), 'Body of Art', London: Phaidon Press Limited, 2015, pp. 366, ill. in colour
Nielson, Elizabeith, Luckraft, Paul (eds.), 'The Zabludowicz Collection; 20 Years', Beveren-Leie: Cassochrome, 2015, pp. 11, ill. (exh. cat.)

2014

Lauson, Cliff, Morley, Paul [et al.]. 'Martin Creed: What's the point of it?', London: Hayward Gallery Publishing, 2014
Griffin, Jonathan, Harper, Paul + [et al.], 'The Twenty-First Century Art Book', London: Phaidon Press Limited, 2014, pp.57, ill.
'Art as a verb', Caulfield: Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA), 2014, pp.36, ill. in colour
Celant, Germano (ed.), 'Art or Sound', Milan: Fondazione Prada, 2014
O’Donoghue, Hughie (ed.), 'Summer Exhibition Illustrated 2014', London: Royal Academy of Arts, 2014
Stadler, Robert, Vaillant, Alexis (eds.), 'Quiz', Paris: Manuella Editions, 2014
Cleland, Stephen, Jones, Jonathan [et al] ‘A World Undone: Works from the Chartwell Collection’, Auckland: Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tãmaki Publishing, 2014 (exh. cat.)
Danicke, Sandra, 'Kunst Ohne Titel', Stuttgart: Belser, 2014
Stout, Katharine, 'Contemporary Drawing: from the 1960s to Now', London: Tate Publishing, 2014
Ward, Ossian, 'Ways of Looking', London: Laurence King, 2014

2013

Grovier, Kelly, ’100 Works of Art That Will Define Our Age’, London: Thames & Hudson, 2013, p. 85, ill.  
Hushka, Rock, Lang, Brian J., 'Drawing Line into Form: Works on Paper by Sculptors from the Collection of BNY Mellon', Tacoma: Tacoma Art Museum, 2013
Day, Charlotte, Parker, E Francis, Sharkey, Patrice, ‘Reinventing the Wheel. The Readymade Century’, Melbourne: Monash University Museum of Art, 2013, p.19, ill. 
Schuppli, Madeleine, Aargauer Kunsthaus Aarau (eds.), 'Rhythm in it', Lucerne/Poschiavo: Verlag Edizioni Periferia, 2013, pp.74-75, ill. (exh. cat.)
Arnarson, Borkur (ed.), ‘Works on Paper’, Reykjavik: i8 Gallery, 2013, p. 25, ill.
Harvey, Jonathan, Lancaster, Julia (eds.), ‘The Fire Station Project’, London: Acme Studios, 2013, p. 83, ill.
Unterdörfer, Michaela (ed.), ‘Hauser & Wirth.20 Years’, Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2013
Bardiot, Clarisse, Daurier, Romaric, ‘Cabaret de Curiosités – Black / White / Live Box’, Valenciennes: Subjectile, 2013 
Moszynska, Anna, ‘Sculpture Now’, London: Thames & Hudson, 2013, p. 78, ill.
Syz, Suzanne, ‘Suzanne Syz Art Jewels’, New York: Assouline, 2013
Cronshaw, Jon, "Artist's serious work fills the room," Yorkshire Post, July
Unterdörfer, Michaela (ed.), ‘Hauser & Wirth.20 Years’, Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz
"Inside 20,00 balloons," Ottawa Citizen, February

2012

Younis, Reef, 'The Turner Prize Winning Artist Asks: 'What's The Point Of It?'', Loud & Quiet, July 2012 pp. 24-25
Beil, Ralf, Kraut, Peter (eds.) ‘A House Full of Music’, Darmstadt: Mathildenhohe, 2012
___, ‘BMW Art Guide by Independent Collectors’, Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2012, p. 28
Fondazione Marino Golinelli, ‘Da Zero A Cento le nuova età della vita Una Mostra di Arte + Scienza’, Milan: La Triennale di Milano, 2012
Doswald, Christoph, ‘Art and the City’, Zürich: Tages Anzeiger, 2012
___, ‘Paper’, Nice: Association T, 2012, p. 40
Fildaro, Daria, Aldo, Iori (eds.), ‘Arte Torna Arte’, Milan: Giunti, 2012, p. 70-71

2011

Richmond, Cindy, Chang, Wendy (eds.) 'Martin Creed', Vancouver: Rennie Collection, 2011
Vanmoerkerke, Mark, 'Collection Vanmoerkerke', Brussels: Rispoli Books, pp. 46-47, 49, ill.
Jones, Darren, 'Industrial Aesthetics, Environmental Influences on Recent Art from Scotland', HUNTER, The City University of New York, NY New York, pp. 24-25, ill.
Bruni, Lorenzo, ’Museums Galleries, Homes and other stories’, Milan: Galleria Enrico Astuni, 2011, pp. 3-21, ill. (exh.cat.)
Birnbaum, Daniel, Butler, Connie, Cotter, Suzanne, 'Defining Contemporary Art: 25 Years in 200 pivotal artworks', pp. 170-171
Schlieker, Andrea, 'Folkestone Triennial: A Million Miles from Home', Folkestone: Cultureshock Media Ltd., pp. 52-55, ill.
Ngui, Matthew, Smith, Trevor, Storer, Russell, 'Singapore Biennale 2011 Open House', Singapore: Singapore Art Museum, pp. 226-227, ill.
Hainley, Bruce, Higgie, Jennifer, Moulène, Claire (et al.), 'BigMinis', Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2011, p. 211, ill.
Jones, Jonatan, 'Martin Creed's stairway to heaven', The Guardian, 1 August
Ramaswamy, Chitra, 'Stepping out: The Scotsman Steps get a new lease of life',The Scotsman, 24 June
Morley, Paul, 'Paul Morley Showing Off ... Martin Creed', The Guardian, 30 January
'My week in pictures', ‘The Observer’, Magazine, 30 January, p. 9
Searle, Adrian, Review, Mother of all shows: Creed drives audience to delighted abstraction, The Guardian, 25 January 2011, p. 11
Sumpter, Helen, 'Martin Creed makes the mother of all sculptures', Time Out London, 24 January

2010

Greer, Germanie, 'Much ado about nothing', The independent Viewspaper, 22 July
Sawyer, Miranda, 'The Wizard of Odd', The Observer, 18 July, pp.18-19
Barnett, Laura, 'Martin Creed, artist', G2, 23 March, page 23
Cashdan, Marina, 'Martin Creed', Modern Painters March, pp.16-17
Wade, Mike, 'And now for my next trick - artist answers his critics with another simple slice of life', The Times, 20 February, p.15
Miller, Phil, 'Restless native', The Herald Magazine, 20 February
Bradley, Fiona, Coles, Alex, 'Martin Creed: Down Over Up', Edinburgh: The Fruitmarket Gallery
Creed, Martin, Gioni, Massimiliano, 'Martin Creed Works', London: Thames and Hudson
Eugenio Lopez Alonso Fundacion / Collection Jumex, 'Les enfants terribles', Mexico: Fundacion / Collecion Jumex
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, '“...Nur Papier, und doch die ganze Welt...“. 200 Jahre
Graphische Sammlung', Stuttgart: Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, p. 264, ill. (exh. cat.)
Polla, Barbara, Ardenne, Paul, 'Peintures. Please, pay attention, please', Larmont: Editions Le Bord de L'Eau – Collection La Muette
Goldie, Peter, Schellekens, Elisabeth, 'Who`s Afraid of Conceptual Art? ', New York NY: Routledge, pp. 44-45, ill.
'The first ten years: definitely not alright', London: The art newspaper, January p. 1

2009

Coles, Alex, 'Work No. 1020', The Financial Times, 27 October
Anderson, Zoë, 'Martin Creed Work No. 1020', The Independent, October 21, ill.
Craine, Debra, 'Martin Creed at the Lilian Baylis', The Times, October 19
Tóibín, Colm, 'Ordinary World', Esquire, February, P. 55, ill.
Coles, Alex, 'Martin Creed I've Got Rhythm', Phillips de Pury & Company: Music, 21 November, P. 36, ill.
Griffiths, Catherine, Rees, Dan (eds.), Home for lost ideas, Turin/Berlin: Archive Books, pp. 98, ill.
Ardenne, Paul, 'Art, Le Present: La création plasticienne au tournant du XXI. siècle', Paris: Edition du Regard, p. 293, ill.
Kamiya, Yukie, Archer, Michael, 'Martin Creed', Hiroshima: City Museum of Contemporary Art, (exh. cat.)
Besson, Christian, Fabvre, Bernard, Geignebet, Claude, et al., 'La dégelée Rabelais', Montpellier: Méditerrane Éditions
Guglielmino, Giorgio (ed.), 'How to Look at Contemporary Art', London: Umbert Allemandi & Co., pp. 253-255, ill.
Toshikatsu, Omori (ed.) 'Basic Action', Tokio: Hiromiyoshii, (exh. cat.)
Bonham-Carter, Charlotte, Hodge, David, 'The Contemporary Art Book', London, Goodman, p. 55, ill.
Selby, Aimée, 'Art and Text', London: Black Dog Publishing, p. 106, ill. Madden, Kathleen (ed.), 'In the Between', Istanbul: Egeran Art Advisory, pp. 18, ill.
Rattemeyer, Christian, ′Compass in Hand′, New York NY: The Museum of Modern Art
Hiromiyoshii, 'Basic Action: Toshikatsu Omori on Martin Creed', Hiromiyoshii, pp. 8, 10-11, 15, 27, 40, 54-55, 64-65 (exh. cat)

2008

Trigg, David, 'Time and Motion', Art Monthly, November 2008, ill.
Blincoe, Nicholas, 'Fast Forward', The Guardian, 27 September. ill.
Jones, Jonathan, 'Reviewing Martin Creed with the benefit of reflection', The Guardian, 30 July, ill.
Lubbock, Tom, 'Is art running out of ideas? Artists forced to explain modern art', The Independent, 14 July, ill.
Walsh, John, 'So he dashed it off. But that does not mean it is not art', The Independent, 2 July
Alberge, Dalya, The latest installation at Tate that will run and run, The Times, 1 July, P.13. ill.
Higgins, Charlotte, 'Martin Creed's New Piece for Tate Britain: a show that will run and run', The Guardian, 1 July, P. 11, ill.
Searle, Adrian, An Electrifying Gesture, The Guardian, 1 July, P. 11
Channel 4 News, Nick Glass corresponds, 30 June, 2008
Demir, Anaïd, 'Being Martin Creed', bc Magazine, issue 3, summer 2008, ill.
Luke, Ben, 'Running at Life', Art World Magazine, issue 5, June/July 2008
Campbell-Johnston, Rachel, Is Martin Creed a Genius? The Times, London, UK, 16 January, ill.
Aspden, Peter, Tate Displays Taste for Weirdness, Financial Times, London, UK, 15 January, P. 3
Brown, Mark, 'Minimalist Artist Pioneers Tate Britain's Annual Commision', The Guardian, 15 January
Alberge, Dalya, Turner Winner Will Be Paid to Give Art Lovers The Runaround, The Times, London, UK, 15 January, P. 9, ill.
Weeden, John, 'Art Risk Fun', Weeden Arts Watch, http://weedenartswatch.blogspot.com, 15 January
Baracaia, Alexa, 'Tate Shows Creed in a Fresh Light', The London Paper, 14 January, P. 8, ill.

2007

Collinge, Miranda, 'Strike A Pose', Esquire Magazine, November issue, P. 159, ill.
Guner, Fisun, 'Relieve the Controversy', The Metro, 2 October, P. 25, ill.
Boulton, David, 'Face To Faith', The Guardian, 22 September, P. 37.
Cripps, Charlotte, In Praise of the Cistern, The Independent Extra, 20 September, P. 14-15, ill.
Higgins, Charlotte, 'Who's Shocking Now?', The Guardian, Weekend, 8 September, P. 32, ill.
New Young Pony Club vs. Martin Creed, Original music tracks written about artworks at Tate Modern
Edgers, Geoff, 'ON and OFF' The Boston Globe, 13 September 2007
Smith, Roberta, 'The Bearable Lightness of Martin Creed', New York Times, 13 July 2007, ill.
Shaw, Lucy, ' My London', Evening Standard Magazine, May 2007, P. 58, ill.
Falconer, Morgan, 'The Great Entertainer', Times 2, The Times, May 2007, P. 15, ill.
Coomer, Martin, 'Exhibition of the week', Time Out, May 2007, P. 45, ill.
Roberts, Bill, Hauser and Wirth Coppermill, Your Gallery, www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk, May 2007
Searle, Adrian, Beyond the Jokes, The Guardian, G2, 08 March, pp 23-25, ill
Lack, Jessica, 'Martin Creed', The Guardian Guide, May, P. 37, ill.
Martin, Francesca, 'Martin Creed’s Toilets and Triangles' Arts Diary, The Guardian, April, P. 26
Guest, Katy, 'The Art of Gardening', The Independent Magazine, April, P 31, ill
Stern, Steven, 'Theatre of the absurd' Time out, New York, Issue 600, March P. 70, ill
Mattioda, Mario, Interview, Vogue Italia, Italy, Issue No. 679, March, P. 242, ill
Chiles, Lawrence, 'Get Me', Wonderland, London, Issue 7, Feb/March, P. 98, ill
'Martin Creed. Words and Music', The Herald, March 10 , P. 2, ill
Vogel, Carol, 'Inside Art', The New York Times, January 5
Kinnes, Sally, 'What’s over you mantelpiece', The Independent

2006

Slyce, John, 'Martin Creed', Contemporary 21, Issue 89, P. 49, ill.
'Oh Christams tree, Oh Christmas tree', The Guardian, G2, December 20, ill Front page.
Newbury, Tancred, 'How was it for them?', The Guardian, G2, December 6, P. 25
Donohue, Graeme, 'What a load of balls', The scottish Sun, December 6, P. 13, ill.
Smith, Aiden, 'Throwing up a few surprises', Scotland On Sunday, December 3
Wallach, Amei, 'ART; The provocateur and his well heeled collaborator’ The new York Times, November 12
Gautier, Michel, '+/- ‚ Martin Creed Ou La Solution Zero', 20/27, Issue No.1, P. 107, ill.
Paul, Andrew, 'Stupid like nature', Listener – The things that matter, October 28 ill.
Clifford, Andrew, 'Bypassing the tinking process', The New Zealand Herald, October 11 ill.
Sheils Rosa, 'Creed’s Credo', Unknown, Date, ill.
Guest, Katy, ' Credo', The Independant on Sunday, October 6, P. 59, ill.
Coulson, Amanda, 'Nothing', Art Review, London, Issue 04, October, P. 162, ill.
Vetrocq, Marcia E, 'Martin Creed, Artful Dodger', Art in America, New York, No. 8, September pp.146-149, ill.
Schjeldahl, Peter, 'New and Old', The New Yorker, September 11, pp. 86 / 87
Baer-Bogenschütz, Dorothee, 'Goldschatz in Texas', Kunstzeitung, Regensburg, Nr. 121, September, p.13
Schedlemayr, Nina, 'Disposition. Versponnenheit schlägt blutleere', Spike, Vienna, Summer no. 8, pp. 72-73
Brooks, Arma, 'Must see art' in: LA Weekly, August 31, ill, P. 60
Ollman, Leah, 'Creed’s work delivers a shock', in: LA Times, Los Angeles/CA, August 25
Hensher, Philip, 'That’s a Hirst? It’ll never sell...', The Independent, London, August 4
Falconer, Morgan, 'Never a Hirst. Is it?', The Times, London, August 1, ill.
Teodorczuk, Tom, 'The pig and the penguin: ICA trots out genius of youth', Evening Standard, July 31, p. 23, ill.
Haden-Guest, Anthony, 'Under the influence', FT Weekend, London, July 30
Moore, Christopher, 'Scape set to transform city', The Press, Christchurch, July 19, ill.
'Martin Creed Work No 370: Balls', Art Quarterly, London, 1. June p.134, ill.
Vetter, Christian, 'Update: Zurich', in: We are the Artists, Zurich, No. 7, May-July p.7, ill.
'Ehemalige jüdische Mädchenschule, Auguststr. 11-13. Martin Creed', Kunstforum, Ruppichteroth, vol. 180, May-June pp. 242-243, ill.
Malvern, Jack, 'Art of noise kicks up a stink', The Times, London, May 23, p. 5
ArtKrush Interview on judging the ICA Becks Futures
Artforum Diary Review, 'I Like Things', Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, 22 May
L'espresso Video Interview Opening night of 'I Like Things', Fondazione Nicola Trussardi
Cattelan, Maurzio; Gioni, Massimiliano; Subotnick, Ali (cur.), Of Mice and Men, 4^th Berlin biennial for contemporary art, 2006, (exh. cat)
La Grua, Ashley, ‘My Secret Life’, [interview] The Independent Magazine, March 25, 2006, p.5
Bruni, Lorenzo ‘Astrazione’, Arte e Critica, Issue 45, January-March 2006 pp. 54-55, ill.
Basting, Barbara, 'Glanzlichter der Woche', Züritipp (insert in: Tagesanzeiger), Zurich, February 23 – March 1, p. 45, ill.
Hess, Ewa, 'Kunst, aber schnell! ', Sonntagszeitung, Zurich, January 22, p. 47, ill.
Sardo, Delfim; MARCO; Centro José Guerrero (ed.), 'The Invisible Show', Vigo: Museo de Arte Contemporanea de Vigo (exh.cat.)
British Council Switzerland, 'Talking Art', Berne: British Council Switzerland (brochure)
Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’art contemporain asbl, Luxembourg (ed.), 'joy', Luxembourg: Imprimerie centrale S.A., Luxembourg (exh.cat)
Städtisches Museum Abteiberg (ed.), 'Strange I`ve seen that face before', Mönchengladbach/Cologne: Städtisches Museum Abteiberg/Dumont Verlag (exh.cat.)

2005

Engberg, Juliana (cur.), Visual Arts Program 2005, Melbourne International Arts Festival, 2005, (exh.cat)
ACCA, 'The lights off', Melbourne, 2005 (exh. cat)
--, 'Martin Creed', Art Unlimited, Basel, 2005, pp. 58-59, ill.
d’Ailly, Stella; Olausson, Lisa; Sten, Maja (cur.), ‘Extra Ordinary’, Stockholm, 2005, p. 50-51 (exh. cat)
Adams, Clive; Bowes, Edwin (cur.), ‘The Art of White’, The Lowry, November 2005, p. 90 (exh. cat)
Keller, Sam (ed.), Art Basel, ‘Conversations’ 2005, p. 17-18 (exh. cat)
May, Susan (ed.), Size Matters, Exploring Scale in the Arts Council Collection, 2005 p. 30 (exh. cat)
Raspail, Thierry (ed.), Experiencing Duration, Biennale d’art contemporain de Lyon 2005, September 14, 2005, p. 106-109 (exh. cat)
Boubnova, Iara; Lunghi, Enrico (cur.) Joy, Casino Luxembourg, December, 2005 (exh. cat)
Rugoff, Ralph, Monuments for the USA, Short Term Memory, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, 2005, (exh. cat)
Morton, Tom, 'Lyons Biennale', Frieze, London, Issue 95, November-December 2005, pp. 128-129, ill.
Meltzer, Eve, 'Monuments for the USA', Frieze, London, Issue 92, June-August 2005, p. 160
Hardy, Katherine, 'Martin Creed: artist or musician?’, The Art Newspaper, New York, June 17, 2005, p. 2, ill.
Douglas, Sarah, 'Report from Basel', Artinfo, Berlin, June 16, 2005, ill.
Cattelan, Maurizio, 'Something to work for. Martin Creed interviewed by Maurizio Cattelan', [interview] Flash Art International, Milan, vol. 38, no. 242, May-June 2005, pp. 110-111, ill.
Lafuente, Pablo, 'Down up', Flash Art International, Milan, vol. 38, no. 242, May-June 2005, pp. 114-115, ill.
Lissmann, Christina, 'Holy Art Space!', Sleek Magazine for Art and Fashion, Berlin, Winter 2005/2006, pp. 58-63, ill.
Harding, Jessica, 'Portrait of a Lady with an Ermine', Another Magazine,New York, Spring-Summer 2005, p. 98, ill.
Bishop, Claire, 'But is it Installation Art?', Tate etc., London, Issue 3, Spring 2005, pp. 26-35, ill.
Coles, Alex, 'Martin Creed', Frieze, London, no. 89, March 2005, pp. 130-131, ill.
Honigman, Ana Finel, 'Nothing Fancy', on: www.artnet.com, February 24, 2005
--,‘A panoramic view of art in the capital. Martin Creed’, Flash Art, Milan, January-February, 2005, p. 73
Steggles, Annabelle, ‘Art Gillery’, The Sun, Glasgow, March 30, 2005, p. 21, ill.
--, ‘If you’re lonely’, The Independent, London, July 30, 2005, p. 6-7, ill.
Behrman, Pryle, ‘Lyons Biennale 2005’, Art Monthly, London, no. 291, November 2005, p. 21-23, ill.
Bailey, Martin, ‘Collector Relations’, The Art Newspaper, London, no. 154, January 2005, p. 6
Deal, Stephen, ‘It cost £30k, but for that you get to kick his balls’, Metro, London, March 29, 2005, p. 3 ill.
Duffy, Gerry, ‘Load of Balls’, The Sun, March 29, 2005 p.23
Goodwin, Karin, ‘Gallery puts 30,000 into load of balls’, The Sunday Times, London, March 27, 2005
Brocklebank, Jonathan, ‘Having a ball’ Daily Mail, London, March 28, 2005, p. 3, ill.

2004

Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle (ed.), 'Martin Creed: the whole world + the work = the whole world', Warsaw, 2004 (exh. cat.)
Kunsthalle Bern (ed.), 'Martin Creed', Bern, 2004 (exh. cat.)
Palais de Tokyo (ed.), 'Live', Paris, 2004 (exh. cat.)
Longside Gallery, 'Bad Behavior: from the Arts Council Collection', Yorkshire, 2004 (exh.cat.)
Domaine Pommery, 'Genesis Sculpture, Experience Pommery #1', Reims, 2004 (exh.cat.)
--, Café in Mito, Communicable Action for Everybody, 2004, p. 26-27 (exh. cat)
Steiner, Rochelle (cur.), State of Play, Serpentine Gallery, London, 2004, (exh. cat)
--, Very New Art 2004, Vol. 56, No. 847, 2004
Eccles, Tom (ed.), ‘Plop: recent projects of the Public Art Fund’ New York, 2004, p. 68-71, ill.
Levin, Kim, 'None of the Above', Village Voice, New York, December 23, 2004
Herbert, Martin, 'On the ground. London', Artforum, New York, vol. XLIII, no. 4, December 2004, pp. 73-76
Anderson, Hephzibah, 'Art News', Metro, London, November 26-December 2, 2004
O’Reilly, Sally, 'Martin Creed', Art Monthly, London, no. 281, November 2004, pp. 34-35, ill.
Chapman, Peter, 'Private View: Martin Creed Hauser & Wirth, London W1', Independent, London, October 23-29, 2004, p. 17, ill.
Campbell-Johnston, Rachel, 'This Week. The Best of the Arts chosen by The Times Team of Critics', Weekend Review (insert in The Times), London, October 23, 2004, p.1
Coomer, Martin, 'Martin Creed', Time Out, London, October 20, 2004, ill.
Pethick, Emily, 'Martin Creed', on: www.artforum.com, New York, October 15, 2004
Güner, Fisun, 'Get the ball rolling', Metro, London, October 12, 2004, p. 26, ill.
Akbar, Arifa, 'In art, you have to kick a few ideas around', The Independent, London, October 8, 2004, p. 3, ill.
Fisher, Neil, 'First Choice', The Times, London, October 8, 2004, p. 18
Byrnes, Sholto, 'An on/off affair', in: The Independent Review, London, October 7, 2004, pp. 6, 8, ill.
CB, 'Martin Creed', The Guide, London, October 2-8, 2004, p. 37, ill.
Roberts, Alison, 'This will put a smile on your face', Evening Standard,, August 3, 2004, p. 41, ill.
--, 'Artists’ choice', The Independent, London, August 2, 2004, pp. 16-17, ill.
Cullinan, Nicholas, 'State of Play', Frieze, London, no. 82, April 2004, pp. 93-94, ill.
Kent, Sarah, 'No laughing matter', Time Out, London, March 17-24, 2004, p. 46, ill.
Gingeras, Alison M., 'Painting without canvas or sculpting with paint', Contemporary, London, 2004, pp. 22-25, ill.
--, 'My Secret Life: Martin Creed, artist', The Independent, London, January 31, 2004, p. 7
Durland, Corinna, ‘Martin Creed: Twenty (More) Questions,’ Wrong Times, no. 1, 2004, pp. 2-3
--, ‘This Week. The best of the arts chosen by The Times team of critics, Weekend Review, London, October 23, 2004, p. 1
--, ‘Top 15’, Monopol, Berlin, no. 4, October-November, 2004, pp. 16-17, ill.
Jennings, Rose, ‘Can everyone hear at the back?’ The Observer, October 10, 2004, p. 6
--, ‘Martin Creed: Works CCA Ujadowski Castle Warsaw’ Contemporary, no. 62, 2004, p. 23
Ward, Ossian, ‘Why are you all hanging around here?’, The Independent Review, London, October 14, 2004, p. 3
Gleadell, Colin, Contemporary market, The Daily Telegraph, London, October 18, 2004.

2003

Museum Boijmans Von Beuningen (ed.), 'Shine: Wishful Fantasies and Visions of the Future in Contemporary Art', Rotterdam: Museum Boijmans Von Beuningen, 2003 (exh.cat.)
--, ‘Bad Behaviour’, from the Arts Council Collection, 2003, pp. 56-57, ill.
Darwent, Charles, 'Visual Art; Go on then, delight me... ', The Independent on Sunday, London, November 9, 2003, p. 13
--, 'Dancing with myself', Work, Art in Progress, Trento, no. 7, October-December 2003, pp. 14-15, ill.
Higgs, Matthew, 'Martin Creed', Work, Art in Progress, Trento, no. 7, October-December 2003, pp. 20-21, ill.
Higgs, Matthew, 'First Take', Artforum, New York, vol. XLI, no. 5, January 2003, p. 120
Berwick, Carly, 'A Right Kind of Wrong', Artnews, New York, vol. 102, no. 1, January 2003, p. 25, ill.

2002

Bradley, Will, Bretton-Meyer, Henriette, Webster, Toby, 'My Head is on Fire but my Heart is Full of Love', Copenhagen: Charlottenborg Udstillingbygning / Glasgow: The Modern Institute, 2002 (exh.cat.)
CCAC Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts (ed.), 'Rock My World: Recent Art and the Memory of Rock’ n’ Roll' [text by: Ralph Rugoff, Ann Powers, Matthew Higgs], San Francisco: CCAC Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, 2002 (exh.cat.)
Herkenhoff, Paolo, Marcoci, Roxana, Basilio, Miriam, 'Tempo', New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2002 (exh.cat.)
Collection Haubrok (ed.), 'No Return', Mönchengladbach, 2002, (exh.cat.)
Millward, David, 'Turner Prize treatment for House of Commons, Artist aims to shed some light on politicians', Daily Telegraph, London, December 7, 2002, p. 11
Donohoe, Graeme, 'Stars are so big arted', The Sun, London, August 15, 2002
Sewell, Brian, 'Art', Evening Standard, London, May 30, 2002, p. 9
Lafreniere, Steve, 'Top Ten', Artforum, New York, vol. XL, no. 9, May 2002. p. 47
Donohoe, Graeme, 'Brave art; Exclusive', The Sun, London, March 14, 2002, p. 36
Vetrocq, Marcia E., 'Arte Povera: The Recount', Art in America, New York, no. 3, March 2002, pp. 82-91
Donohoe, Graeme, 'The crazy world of Martin Creed', The Sun, London, February 15, 2002, p. 40, ill.
Irvine, Ian, 'A capital idea', The Independent, London, January 31, 2002, p. 10
Brooks, Richard, 'Martin Creed, Biteback', Sunday Times, London, January 13, 2002, p. 12
Davies, Brian, 'Letter: Alphabet as art', The Independent, London, January 7, 2002, p. 2
McGrath, Kate, 'As easy as ABC', The Scotsman, Edinburgh, January 7, 2002, p. 13
Lubbock, Tom, 'A letter in the newspaper', The Independent, London, January 1, 2002, pp. 6-7, ill.
Sans, Jerome, 'On Stage', The Curator’s Egg, no. 3, 2002
Reindl, Uta, Review, Tema Celeste, April, 2002 p. 92
Mahoney, Elisabeth, ‘Art: Martin Creed’s maddening noises’, The Guardian, London, March 5, 2002, p. 14

2001

Whitworth, Damian, 'Madonna swears by her artful defence', The Times, London, December 20, 2001, p. 3
Bushell, Garry, 'Garry Bushel on the box: Turner this light off', The People, London, December 16, 2001, p. 14
Collings, Matthew, 'Where were you when the lights went out?', Sunday Times, London, December 16, 2001, p. 2
Grimston, Jack, 'Turner lights have glow of earlier art', Sunday Times, London, December 16, 2001, p. 7
McGlown, Martin, 'Protester hurls eggs at Turner Prize light show', Evening Standard, London, December 12, 2001, p. 18
Brown, Craig, 'Way of the World: The Turner dinner', Daily Telegraph, London, December 11, 2001, p. 25
Campbell-Johnston, Rachel, 'Nothing ventured', The Times, London, December 11, 2001, p. 17
Mullins, Charlotte, 'The tailor who created the emperor’s new clothes', The Independent, London, December 11, 2001, p. 5
Wilson, Simon, 'Baffled? Don’t be', The Mirror, London, December 11, 2001, p. 12
Reynolds, Nigel, 'Turner Prize won by man who turns the lights off', Daily Telegraph, London, December 10, 2001, ill.
Jury, Louise, 'Blink and you’ll miss it, the light work that took the Turner prize', The Independent, London, December 10, 2001, pp. 2-3, ill.
Gibbons, Fiachra, 'Judges switched on as Turner Prize goes to the Creed of nothingness', The Guardian, London, December 10, 2001, p. 3
McGlown, Martin, 'Try this at home, says £20,000 Turner Prize winner', Evening Standard, London, December 10, 2001, p. 5
Bowditch, Gillian, 'Art? Even Martin’s in the dark' [interview], The Sunday Times, London, December 9, 2001, p. 5
Stewart, Helen, 'You call that art?', The Scotsman, Edinburgh, December 7, 2001, p. 4
Denny, Ned, 'Tate that', The Statesman, London, November 26, 2001
Aidin, Rose, 'Bright lights, small islands', The Times, London, November 24, 2001, p. 42-43, ill.
--, 'Pandora', The Independent, London, November 8, 2001, p. 4
--, 'Artists light up prize list', The Sun, London, November 7, 2001, p. 25
Bush, Kate, 'London Field', Artforum, New York, vol. XXXIX, no. 1, September 2001, p. 85
McGee, John, 'Space-Jack!', on:www.metropolis.japantoday.com/tokyoart/392/tokyoartinc.htm, Tokyo, 2001, ill.
--, 'Turner art prize judges Blu it with tacky choice', The Sun, London, June 5, 2001, p. 34
Johnson, David, 'It’s pretty good rubbish and I’m not binning it', Sunday Times, London, June 3, 2001, p. 2
Alberge, Dalya, 'Familiar rubbish on Turner shortlist', The Times, London, May 31, 2001, p. 3
Cummins, Fiona, 'My blu period', The Mirror, London, May 31, 2001, p. 22
Darvill, Mike, 'A blob of blu-tack in running for art prize', The Sun, London, May 31, 2001, p. 19
Searle, Adrian, 'Appalling Fascination of a Career-enhancing Competition', The Guardian, London, May 31, 2001
Millard, Rosie, The Times, London, June 8, 2001, p. 7
Gibbons, Fiachra, ‘It’s On, It’s Off, but is it Art?’, The Guardian, London, November 7, 2001
Dorment, Richard, ‘Dullness and Decadence’ The Daily Telegraph, London, November 7, 2001 p. 18
Cumming, Laura, ‘What, No Elephant Dung?’, The Observer, London, November 11, 2001, p.10
Kent, Sarah, ‘A Funny Turner’, Time Out London, London, November 14, 2001
McEwen, John, ‘Grave Time for Turner’, Telegraph, London, November 11, 2001, p. 6
Alberge, Dalya, ‘Turner Judges see the Lights’, The Times, London, December 10, 2001 p.3
Vogal, Carol, ‘A Prize for Lights’, The New York Times, New York, December 14, 2001, Arts Section, p. E36
Carsaniga, Prof G, ‘Letter: Turner Puzzle’, The Independent, London, December 11, 2001
Reade, Brian, ‘Prize art? Now it’s your Turner…’, The Mirror, London, December 11, 2001, p. 12-13
--, ‘Londoner’s Diary’, Evening Standard, London, December 11, 2001
Searle, Adrian, ‘Urban outfitters’, The Guardian, London, December 4, 2001

2000

Southampton City Art Gallery (ed.), 'Martin Creed Works', Southampton: Southampton City Art Gallery, 2000 (exh.cat.)
Button, Virginia, Esche, Charles (ed.), 'Intelligence. New British Art 2000', London: Tate Publishing, 2000
Whitechapel Art Gallery (ed.), 'Protest And Survive', London, 2000 (exh.cat.)
Shed im Eisenwerk (ed.), '...sabotage... ', Frauenfeld, 2000 (exh.cat.)
Chelsea & Westminster Hospital, 'DON'T WORRY', London, 2000 (exh.cat.)
Bishop, Claire, 'The Creed of Banality', Evening Standard, London, November 14, 2000, p. 57
Coles, Alex, 'Martin Creed at City Art Gallery', Art in America, New York, no. 11, November 2000, pp. 176, ill.
Jones, Jonathan, 'Let there be light', The Observer, London, March 19, 2000, pp. 16-17, ill.
Campbell-Johnston, Rachel, 'He’s got the whole world in his signs', The Times, London, March 15, 2000, p. 18, ill.
Lewisohn, Cedar, 'Art & Rock Stars', Flash Art, Milan, March-April 2000, pp. 78-81. ill.
Buck, Louisa, 'Martin Creed', Artforum, New York, vol. XXXVIII, no. 6, February 2000, pp. 110-111, ill.
Searle, Adrian, 'Is this what they call pop art?', The Guardian, London, January 18, 2000, pp. 14-15, ill.
MacMillan, Ian, ‘I’m saying Nothing’, Modern Painters, pp. 42-44
Cotter, Holland, ‘Surging into Chelsea’, The New York Times, New York, January 21, 2000
McFarland, Dale, ‘DON’T WORRY’, Frieze, London, no. 52, May, 2000
Buck, Louisa, ‘Moving Targets 2; A users guide to British art now’, Tate, London, 2000, pp. 118-119

1999

Rindler, Lawrence (ed.), 'Searchlight: Consciousness at the Millennium', London: Thames & Hudson, 1999
Collings, Matthew (ed.), 'This is Modern Art', London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1999
Patrizio, Andrew (ed.), 'Contemporary Sculpture in Scotland', Craftsman House (imprint of G&B International, Sydney), 1999 (exh.cat.)
--, 'A message to our readers', The Art Newspaper, London, no. 98, December 1999
Buck, Louisa, 'London Calling by Louisa Buck', The Art Newspaper, London, no. 98, December 1999
Meenaghan, Tony, 'Q: Is this a screwed up piece of paper or the star of new art exhibition? A: BOTH’, The Mirror, London, November 12, 1999, p. 15
Cara, Page, 'This Crumpled Sheet of A4 is a Work of Art', The Daily Record, Glasgow, November 12, 1999
Mark, Lisa Gabrielle, 'Fresh Heir', C, International Contemporary Art Publication, Toronto, no. 63, September 1999
Beech, Dave, 'Martin Creed', Art Monthly, London, no. 226, May 1999
Higgs, Matthew, 'Martin Creed: 20 Questions', Untitled, London, no. 18, Spring 1999
Lillington, David, 'Martin Creed', Metropolis M, Utrecht, April 1999
Jones, Jonathan, 'What’s so minimal about 15 000 balloons?', The Observer, London, March 14, 1999
--, 'Rubbish to some, but art of Creed has cult status', Daily Mail, London, March 8, 1999, p. 27, ill.
Mclver, Brian, 'Meet the modern artist who admits his work in rubbish', Saturday Times, Glasgow, March 6, 1999
McFarland, Dale, ‘On Martin Creed’ Frieze, London, 1999, pp. 66-69
--, ‘World of art gets it all screwed up’ The Mirror, London, November 12, 1999

1998

Obrist, Basualdo; Bonami, Cameron [et al.], 'cream – contemporary art in culture', London: Phaidon Press, 1998
Bingham, Juliet; Watkins, Jonathan; Spark, Joe, 'every day', Sydney: Biennale of Sydney Ltd, 1998 (exh. cat)
Whitechapel Art Gallery (ed.), 'Speed', London, 1998 (exh. cat.)
Toppila, Paula, 'Proper (blind date) 1-3', Helsinki: Frame Finnish Fund for Art Exchange, 1998 (exh. cat.)
Buck, Louisa, 'UK Artist Q&A' [interview], The Art Newspaper, London, no. 86, November 1998
Stephens, Craig, 'Live Scene: Owada', Revolver, Sydney, September 28, 1998
Buck, Louisa, 'Faces, places and spaces to watch in 1998: your cut-out and keep guide to the future of British art', New Statesman, London, January 2, 1998

1997

Collings, Matthew, 'Blimey. From Bohemia to Britpop', London, 1997
Gallagher, Ann, 'Dimensions Variable – New Works for the British Council Collection', London: The British Council, 1997
Pigott, Hadrian [et al.], 'Go into a shop and ask for nothing', Very, New York, no. 2, 1997
Green, David, 'Minimal Interventions', Contemporary Visual Arts, London, no. 17, 1997
Wilson, Andrew, 'Band Art', Art Monthly, London, no. 210, October 1997
Archer, Michael, 'The Object of Art', Art Monthly, London, no. 208, July-August 1997
Kyriacou, Sotiris, 'Propositions', Art Monthly, London, no. 208, July-August 1997
Freedman, Carl, 'Generation W(eird)', The Guardian, London, May 27, 1997
Joliffe, Kira, 'The Idler Presents: Owada', The Idler, London, no. 18, Spring 1997
Coles, Alex, 'Martin Creed – No Entry', Art + Text, Los Angeles, no. 56, February-April 1997

1996

Creed, Martin, 'Martin Creed: the whole world + the work = the whole world' [artist’s book, text by: John O’Reilly], Geneva: Galerie Analix B&L Polla/London: Karsten Schubert Gallery, 1996
Rolo, Jane, Hunt, Ian (ed.), 'Bookworks – A Partial History and Sourcebook', London: Bookworks, 1996
Arts Council of England (ed.), 'Ace!', London: Arts Council of England, 1996
Frith Street Gallery, Karsten Schubert Gallery (ed.), 'From Figure to Object: A Century of Sculptors', London: Frith Street Gallery/Karsten Schubert Gallery, 1996 (exh.cat.)
Norwich Gallery, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts (ed.), 'EAST International', Norwich: Norwich Gallery/Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, 1996 (exh.cat.)
Williams, Gilda, 'Martin Creed Tabula Rasa', Art Monthly, London, no. 195, April 1996

1995

--, 'My Darling Cicciolina', London: FILEF, 1995 (exh.cat)
Piccoli, Cloe, 'Martin Creed', Flash Art Italia, Milan, December-January 1995-1996
Kent, Sarah, 'Sound & Vision', Time Out, London, August 30 – September 9, 1995
--, 'The Ruby Kelly Column', Art Review, London, vol. XLVII, June 1995
Lederman, Erika, 'Unlimited Works at Starkmann Limited', Art Monthly, London, no. 185, April 1995

1994

Arts Council of England (ed.), 'Art Unlimited: Multiples of the 1960s and 1990s', London: Arts Council of England, 1994
O’Reilly, John, 'Art for Bart’s sake', The Modern Review, London, vol. 1, no. 16, August-September 1994
Searle, Adrian, 'Martin Creed and Sam Samore', Time Out, London, July 21-July 27, 1994

1992

Collings, Matthew, 'Matthew Collings on some kind of sculpture show at Laure Genillard', City Limits, London, January 1992