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The book is written in my own words,” he explains, “and the tone I was aiming for is someone sitting in a pub chatting to you about what they’ve been up to. He won the Turner Prize in 2004 for his work Memory Bucket and represented Britain in the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013. Art is Magic gives us the most rigorous account of Deller and his work to date – including previously unseen artworks. Creative Folkestone is also supported by Arts Council England, Folkestone and Hythe District Council, Kent County Council and The Roger De Haan Charitable Trust. The artist has been confounding the art world for 30 years with projects ranging from a brass band playing acid house to a film of the Brexit protests.

I generally have five or six books on the go – at the moment this includes a biography of Keynes, a collection of papers on participation in democracy, the Power of Strangers, Rewilding, the latest Weird Walk journal and, a much appreciated present, the Definitive Desert Island Discs. Texts by Jeremy Deller; interview with Jeremy Deller by Daniel Scott, Alan Kane, Mary Beard, Jonny Banger, Cheerio. Whether it's stepping on Stonehenge's sacred ground, jumping on it or highlighting popular culture, evoking music fans or the British, it's all about mass creative power. When he talks about his work, Deller often draws parallels between recent events and moments from history or mythology.

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Growing up I played in brass bands and so feel a strong affinity with Deller describing the happiness he feels hanging around steel bands – a collaborative endeavour where everyone’s contributing by playing their part. He describes using contrasting elements to create ‘a visual jolt’, a kind of vibrational tension, in his work.I think there’s a childlike curiosity about the book, like the artist himself, without it ever being childish.

Well, I’m 57, so I’m getting on now, but you have to be open and be a sponge to some degree to be an artist, whatever age you are. Does he worry about the current state of the world, the rising populism, the media propaganda, the acute sense of imperilled democracy? Art is Magic is the first book in which the artist reflects on the entirety of his career, his life and his art.The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. The book features work from across Deller’s life and art and includes Sacrilege, the inflatable Stonehenge, the Iggy Pop Life Class, The Battle of Orgreave, a recreation of a confrontation from the Miners’ Strike, bats (a subject in at least three of Deller’s works), Andy Warhol (whom he met in 1986), rave culture, hen harriers pecking out the eyes of a Tory MP, and a giant Chameleon slide. Payments made using National Book Tokens are processed by National Book Tokens Ltd, and you can read their Terms and Conditions here. In many of our projects we find cocreation with residents and visitors can introduce unexpected elements that improve the usefulness and value of our designs. Jeremy Deller won the Turner Prize in 2004, and represented Britain at the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013.