Art is Life (Saving)

It’s the simplicity and relief of it

I’ve often heard artists talk about how making art for them is not optional, it’s essential. Life-saving, even. I was thinking about that this week as I was watching an interview with one of Britain’s leading conceptual artists, Martin Creed. As well as making videos, he’s a musician, he paints, creates installations, uses lights and neon, and makes stuff.

The first question he was asked in the interview was ‘what do you do?’ I found his response really interesting. Instead of saying ‘I’m an artist’, Creed…