Jeremy Deller

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Jeremy Deller (born 1966) is an English conceptual, video and installation artist. He is a Turner Prize winner.

[edit] Life and work

Jeremy Deller was born in London and studied the history of art at the Courtauld Institute of Art.

Deller is best-known for his Battle of Orgreave (2001), a recreation of the actual Battle of Orgreave which occurred during the UK miners' strike in 1984.

Deller was winner of the Turner Prize in 2004. His show at Tate Britain included documentation on Battle of Orgreave and an installation Memory Bucket (2003), a documentary about Crawford, Texas – the hometown of George W Bush – and the siege in nearby Waco.

In 2006, he was involved in a touring exhibit of contemporary British folk art, in collaboration with Alan Kane. In late 2006 he instigated The Bat House Project, an architectural competition open to the public for a bat house on the outskirts of London.

Much of Deller's work is collaborative. His work has a strong political aspect, in the subjects dealt with and also the devaluation of artistic ego through the involvement of other people in the creative process. Folk Archive is a tour of "people's art", outside of the contemporary art institution. Much of his work is ephemeral in nature and avoids commodification.

In 2007, Deller was appointed a Trustee of the Tate Gallery [1], a decision lampooned by the Stuckists [2].