Curator talk with Michael Craig-Martin
Artist Talk
Wednesday 2 October 2024 6.30 - 7.45pm
Benjamin West Lecture Theatre | Burlington Gardens
£20 / £12 conc
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Michael Craig-Martin
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Join celebrated artist Sir Michael Craig-Martin as he discusses his new exhibition at the Royal Academy.
Michael Craig-Martin will discuss his monumental 60-year career with the Royal Academy’s Secretary & CEO Axel Rüger, who curated the exhibition with the artist.
As Craig-Martin transforms our Main Galleries with landmark works, from An Oak Tree to his large-scale wall drawings, to his brightly-coloured paintings of everyday objects and a new 360 degree digital installation, join us to discover more about his practice, and about putting together his largest retrospective in the UK to date.
A key figure in British art, Michael Craig-Martin is one of the most influential artists and teachers of his generation. Since coming to prominence in the late 1960s he has moved between sculpture, installation, painting, drawing, prints and digital works, creating a body of work that has fused elements from pop, minimalism and conceptual art. He has had numerous exhibitions and installations in galleries and museums across the world, including the Centre Pompidou, Paris, MoMA, New York, IMMA, Dublin, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul, and Hubei Museum Art, Wuhan. He was awarded a CBE in 2000, elected an RA in 2006 and in 2016 he was knighted in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for his services to art.
This talk is supported by The Natalia Cola Foundation.