The History of the World
The wall drawing reveals unexpected social, political and musical connections between these two apparently very different cultures, and charts the way in which Britain has changed from an industrial to a post-industrial society.
Jeremy Deller is interested in people and their relationships to each other. Believing that 'art isn't about what you make but what you make happen.'
It is what it is 2009
This piece of wreckage is both a terrible relic and a metaphor, a stand-in for the thirty-five people who were killed by the suicide bomb that also destroyed the car on 5th March 2007 in a Bagdad marketplace. Deller creates provocative works about social history or recent events that encourage us to look at one kind of 'culture' through the lens of another.
The Battle of Orgreave (an injury to one is an injury to all) 2001
This film documents the very violent conflict which took place during the 1984-5 miners' strike, at the height of the Thatcher government's campaign to quash trade union power. For Deller, the images of thousands of striking miners being pursued by riot police had the appearance of a war scene rather than a labour dispute.
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