Michael Craig-Martin on Educating Damien Hirst

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Art of the Everyday

The Art Explora Mobile Museum in collaboration with Tate and MuMo is touring in the UK from 19 February - 11 May with the exhibition ’Soup, Socks and Spiders! Art of the Everyday'. To get you excited about the exhibition, we’ve selected TateShots which highlight some of the artists and themes you will see in the Mobile Museum!

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Artist Michael Craig-Martin, the man who helped foster the development of the ‘Young British Artists’, discusses the early work of one of his most famous pupils, Damien Hirst.

Artist Michael Craig-Martin was an influential teacher at Goldsmith’s College, London in the 1980s, where he became mentor to a gifted group of students, later known as the ‘Young British Artists’. Among them was Damien Hirst.

TateShots caught up with Craig-Martin at Tate Modern, and asked him to revisit that fertile period, which saw Hirst create his first Spot paintings, Medicine Cabinets and his iconic installation ‘A Thousand Years’.

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