Sir Michael Craig-Martin CBE, RA studied at Yale School of Art and Architecture, his colleagues including Richard Serra, Chuck Close, Brice Marden, Jon Borofsky and Victor Burgin. He returned to Europe in the mid-1960s and was a key figure in the first generation of British conceptual artists. Alongside his work as an artist, he taught at Goldsmith's College in London from 1974 to 1988 and again from 1994 to 2000, he had a significant influence on two generations of young British artists, among them Gary Hume, Sarah Lucas, and Damien Hirst. He has had major exhibitions and retrospectives at institutions across the world, and is also a respected exhibitions curator.
...an erudite, insightful and hugely readable collection of his own writing; 150 short essays ranging from a couple of paragraphs to a few pages covering practical topics On finding a mentor, or On commercial galleries to more theoretical musings On Catholicism and On ideas.--Rob Alderson It's Nice That a gloriously illustrated credo-cum-memoir by the distinguished Irish-born, American-raised, Yale-educated, British-resident senior artist.--Paul Levy ArtsJournal