Creed has worked in a variety of media, from concepts (his work All the Bells, first performed in Costa Rica and then for the London Olympics, encourages the population of a certain place to ring a bell loudly for three minutes) to paintings. Born in West Yorkshire but brought up in Glasgow, hence his Scottish accent, he won the Turner in 2001. The installation he showed for the prize exhibition was Work No 227: The Lights Going On and Off – an empty room in which precisely that, and nothing else, happened.
Neon signs are an ongoing series for the artist. Sometimes he’s irked, other times he’s inspired – his emotions filter through his glowing neon works. There are the more hopeful works, like Don’t Worry in lemon yellow, and the blazing white phrase Everything is Going to Be Alright, which was hinged at the Hilton in New York’s Times Square back in 2000.
Then there are his more ill-tempered pieces, such as Fuck Off, Shit and Whatever, which tie into his punk roots, as Creed is also a musician who is releasing his next album on 8 July called Thoughts Lined Up.
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