'St Augustine wrote: "How many common things are trodden underfoot which, if examined carefully, awaken our astonishment?"Augustine clearly did not have Martin Creed's screwed sheet of paper or lump of Blu-Tack stuck to a wall in view when he wrote those words, and Creed would not choose a religious frame of reference for his work; but there is, nevertheless, value in relating Augustine's thought to Creed's work.'
This is the introduction to my review of Martin Creed's Hayward Gallery retrospective 'What's the point of it?' which appears today in the Church Times. The review outlines how Creed's work opens our eyes to see afresh the common things around us.
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Martin Creed - I Like Things.
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