Martin Creed studied at the Slade School of Art (1990), and currently works and lives in London. Creed received the Turner Prize in 2001 for the controversial The Lights Going On and Off. His work often recalls art movements from the 1960s and ‘70s, most predominantly with his manner of abstraction and conceptualism. His work includes various media, often in the form of sculpture, installation or music. He has exhibited world-wide with solo exhibitions at Ikon Gallery in Birmingham, UK; Kunst-Station Sankt Peter Köln in Cologne, Germany; the Centre of Contemporary Art in Kitakyushu, Japan; and the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art in Melbourne, Australia.