MARTIN CREED

“I went to an art shop and I did not know what brushes to get, so I got a multi-pack. I do not know what is best. Nothing is best. It could be anything. I want everything to be in it. I want to do something without judging or choosing. One cannot judge. It is always artificial. Nothing is best. Things are whatever they are really. Everything really is what it is. In these paintings the different colours can live together in a chord, like a happy family, like the three bears, like flying ducks, like favourite socks in a drawer, like sweet layers of a cake, like steps on a staircase to heaven. A step pyramid is solid and easy to understand. It is a safe structure that is not going to fall down. It is trustworthy. You can see how it is built. The steps are hopefully leading to the top, and you can enjoy the colours on the way up. In a blobby, soupy, ill-defined world it can be helpful to put your ducks in a row.”