Jeremy Deller
Jeremy Deller, for me, is one of our finest, most playful and engaging contemporary artists. He is most famous for his reenactment of 'The Battle of Orgreave' , 'Sacrilege' his bouncy stone henge castle and 'Acid Brass' performances. Described as an English conceptual, video and installation artist, his show 'English Magic', which represented Great Britain at the Venice Biennale in 2013, was also exhibited at Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, Saturday 12 April to Sunday 21 September 2014.
His film ‘Everybody In The Place: An Incomplete History of Britain 1984-1992’ - explores the socio-political history and contemporary legacy of the ‘Second Summer of Love’. Based on a real-life lecture he delivered to a class of A-level Politics students, Deller utilises rare and unseen archive footage to illustrate his telling of this significant cultural movement.
"Everybody in the Place" by Jeremy Deller
English Magic
Other Projects, interviews, films and features
Full documentary by Mike Figgis about Jeremy Deller's reenactment of the Battle of Orgreave, a crucial set-piece confrontation that took place during the Great Miners' Strike of 1984-5. "I believe the '84-'85 struggle isn't a closed book, that even though the mines or the miners have depreciated in number they're still here doing different professions or, whatever, different jobs, and the working class are still here.
JD