- Explores tensions between different belief systems- religious, scientific and political.
- Creates sculptural installations without mockery or cynicism, so viewer can reach their own conclusions.
- Uses the inclusive pronoun 'we' to include and challenge the viewer.
Martin Creed (1968)
- Creates light installations using neon lighting and simple phrases.
- Nominated for the Turner Prize.
- Uses ambiguous phrases, such as 'everything is going to be alright', which is often used as reassurance when meaning the exact opposite.
John Latham (1921-2006)
- Incorporates books as sculptural pieces, similar to the exercises we were doing at the start of the session.
- His series of 'Skoob' work (books backwards), involved destroying books, including Greenberg's 'Art and Culture' with the idea of ingesting and regurgitating ideas.
Raymond Pettibon (1957)
- Designed album covers.
- Quotes text rather than creating his own text.
Mel Bochner (1940)
- Uses bright colours and simple words and phrases like 'bla bla bla'
- Political artist.
- Part of group called 'Art and Language'.
Bruce Nauman (1941)
- Interested in the activity of making the pieces rather than the final outcome, as such he moved on to video.
- Creates playful neon lights.
- Works with spoken text about communication and mis-communication.
Wendy Maruyama (1942)
- Interested in political issues and history.
- Created a piece recreating the identity tags of people in war camps- shows the importance of names.
Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948)
- Incorporated recycled materials, such as newspapers and advertisement.
- Part of dada.
- Came to Britain as refugee of war.
