17 Facts About Jeremy Deller

Jeremy Deller was born on 30 March 1966 and is an English conceptual, video and installation artist.

Jeremy Deller won the Turner Prize in 2004 and represented Great Britain at the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013.

Jeremy Deller was born in London and educated at St John's and St Clement's Primary School and Dulwich College before studying for his BA History of Art at Courtauld Institute of Art ; he achieved his MA in Art History at the University of Sussex under David Alan Mellor.

Jeremy Deller began making artworks in the early 1990s, often showing them outside of conventional galleries.

In 1997, Jeremy Deller embarked on Acid Brass, a musical collaboration with the Williams Fairey Brass Band from Stockport.

Jeremy Deller's work has a strong political aspect, in the subjects dealt with and the devaluation of artistic ego through the involvement of other people in the creative process.

Jeremy Deller staged The Battle of Orgreave in 2001, bringing together almost 1,000 people in a public re-enactment of a violent confrontation from the 1984 Miners' Strike.

In 2004, for the opening of Manifesta 5, the roving European Biennial of Contemporary art, Jeremy Deller organised a Social Parade through the streets of the city of Donostia-San Sebastian, drafting in cadres of local alternative societies and support groups to participate.

In 2009, Jeremy Deller created Procession, a free and uniquely Mancunian parade through the centre of Manchester along Deansgate, a co-commission by Manchester International Festival and Cornerhouse.

In 2019 the Jewish Museum London commissioned Jeremy Deller to create a short film of antisemitic footage showing contemporary media, politicians, and propagandists making antisemitic statements for its special exhibit Jews, Money, Myth.

Later the same year, Jeremy Deller was forced to admit that his design for the memorial to the Peterloo Massacre, intended to provide a podium for speakers and a monument to equality campaigners, had completely failed to make any provision for wheelchair users, despite corporate artwork prominently featuring wheelchair users and even though access had been raised during the consultation process.

Protests by disabled groups led to a last minute redesign and Jeremy Deller describing himself as "chastened".

In June 2024, Jeremy Deller brought Acid Brass to the streets of Melbourne, as part of the 2024 RISING: festival, with local brass bands including Merri-bek City Band, Glenferrie Brass, Victorian State Youth Brass Band, Dandenong Band, and Western Brass.

In 2007, Jeremy Deller was appointed a Trustee of the Tate Gallery.

In December 2020 Jeremy Deller was part of the winning team from the Courtauld Institute of Art in Christmas University Challenge.

On 1 October 2010, in an open letter to the British Government's culture secretary Jeremy Hunt, co-signed by 28 former Turner prize nominees, and 18 winners, Deller opposed any future cuts in public funding for the arts.

Jeremy Deller was selected to represent Great Britain at the Venice Biennale in 2013.