Detail of installation view, British Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2013 (Courtesy British Council. Photo Cristiano Corte)
To celebrate its 10th anniversary, Own Art has commissioned Turner Prize winning artist Jeremy Deller to create a digital animation. Based on his work from the Venice Biennale 2013, the animation will be split into 10,000 stills and be available to download online as unique individual works of art. Everyone who does so becomes part of a global Own Art Collective, showing that anyone can be an art collector. Jeremy Deller’s artwork will be available for download from Monday 7th July 2014.
On Saturday 19th July, the grand reveal of Deller’s final animation will premiere simultaneously on screens across Westfield London and Westfield Stratford. This has been made possible by Exterion Media who are an ideal partner given their extensive digital footprint in London. In particular, the huge number of people at Westfield will ensure Own Art engages with a wide, urban audience.
For more information about Own Art, see www.ownart.org.uk, follow @ownartscheme .
About The Artist
Jeremy Deller (b. 1966, London; lives and works in London) studied Art History at the Courtauld Institute and at Sussex University. He began making artworks in the early 1990s, often showing them outside of conventional galleries. In 2004, Deller won the Turner Prize for Memory Bucket (2003), a documentary about Crawford, Texas, the hometown of former President George W. Bush and The Waco Siege. In 2013 he represented Britain at the 55th Venice Biennale, with his exhibition English Magic. Deller has presented several major projects often stemming from collaborations with other people, including Acid Brass, 1997; The Battle of Orgreave, 2001; Procession, 2009; It Is What It Is, 2009; and Sacrilege, 2012. His works also involve making documentaries on subjects ranging from the exotic wrestler Adrian Street to the die-hard international fans of the band Depeche Mode. Deller has exhibited widely internationally and selected solo exhibitions include: Unconvention (1999, Centre for Visual Arts, Cardiff), After the Goldrush (2002, Wattis Institute, San Francisco), Folk Archive with Alan Kane (2004, Centre Pompidou, Paris and Barbican Art Gallery, London), Jeremy Deller (2005, Kunstverein, Munich), From One Revolution to Another (2008, Palais de Tokyo, Paris), It Is What It Is: Conversations About Iraq (2009, New Museum, NY, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, and Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago), Processions (2009, Cornerhouse, Manchester); Joy in People (2012, Hayward Gallery, London touring to WIELS, Brussels and throughout the US); and English Magic (2013, 55th Venice Biennale, Venice and touring throughout the UK. www.jeremydeller.org
About Creative United
Creative United – Creative United exists to support the growth, development and productivity of the UK’s creative and cultural industries. As a Community Interest Company, their focus is on
Arts Council England, they work with public funders and commercial partners, to develop and deliver tailored finance-based products and other services that benefit the businesses that they work with, as well as the wider community. Creative United provide creative businesses and cultural organisations with access to a range of commercial tools, finance options, business skills and marketing channels designed to drive up sales revenues and allow them to maximise their commercial potential. For more information see, www.creativeunited.org.uk. Their publicly funded programmes include Own Art, Take it away and Creative Industry Finance.
