“My background is in painting but in school in the sixties, like many artists of that time, I believed that painting was dead. I began to work in collaboration with other artists in the creation of performances and installation works. Soon after, I started making video and photographic works and in the process became fascinated with the media itself. Before long I was setting things up just for the camera. In l970 I got a dog and he turned out to be very interested in video and photography as well.” WellsLongSchoolArtistProcessMediaDogCreationPaintingPhotographyPerformancesCamerasBackgroundsSettingVideoSettingsCollaborationFascinatedSixtyInstallation Author:William Wegman
“I have been using the computer as a work aid since the mid-90's. It is extraordinarily well suited to how I think and work and has transformed my practice. Nearly everything I have done in the past 15 years would have been impossible without it. I use the computer for drawing, composing and colour planning everything, from postage stamps to paintings to architectural-scale installations.” ThinkingYearsWellsHas BeensDoneUsePastPracticeImpossiblePaintingComputerAidsDrawingScalesPlanningColourTransformedStampsComposingInstallationPostagePostage Stamps Author:Michael Craig-Martin
“Originally, one of the reasons I was drawn to photography, as opposed to painting or sculpture or installation, is that of all the arts it is the most democratic, in so far as it's instantly readable and accessible to our culture. Photography is how we move information back and forth.” ArtReasonMovingCultureInformationPaintingPhotographyDemocraticSculptureBack And ForthInstallation Author:Gregory Crewdson
“Usually people start with painting and then go on to make installations; my painting came from installation.” PeoplePaintingGoes OnInstallation Author:Michael Craig-Martin
“I look at the character of the exhibition and I treat it as I would a painting or an installation. When I did the Summer Exhibition at Royal Academy, I did it exactly as I would when making a new work.” LooksCharacterPaintingSummerTreatsRoyalAcademyExhibitionsInstallationNew Work Author:Michael Craig-Martin