Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Downing Street

A hugely influential figure in the art world, Michael Craig-Martin was born in Dublin, grew up in the United States, and has lived in Britain since 1966. A major retrospective of his work was held at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in 1989. His exhibitions have included large-scale wall drawings in the Museum of Modern Art in New York and wall paintings at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. He is widely acknowledged for his influence as a teacher at Goldsmiths’ College in London, where he has taught since the early 1970s and where Young British Artists’ Damien Hirst and Sarah Lucas number among his former pupils. Craig-Martin is Professor Emeritus of Fine Art at Goldsmiths; has been a Trustee of the Tate since1989, and was made a CBE in 2001.

Places

Subjects

sport & outdoor activities, cricket, sporting equipment, ball

Materials & Techniques

paper (as artists material), print (as object name), screenprint, cotton paper, Somerset Satin

Artist

Michael Craig-Martin (1941 - )

Title

Cricket ball

Portfolio Title

Sports Balls

Edition

One in an edition of 15

Date

2019

Medium

screenprint on paper

Dimensions

height: 40 cm; width: 40 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Cristea Roberts Gallery, May 2020

Provenance

Cristea Roberts Gallery, London, UK; from whom purchased by UK Government Art Collection, 28 May 2020

GAC number

18862/4