Martin Creed

Creed’s work takes everyday objects, throwaway materials and playful subversion of familiar spaces and asks its viewers to divine meaning through the experience of their viewing. He uses familiar objects, materials, or actions in unusual ways, this includes arranging objects by size, height or volume to create sculptural installations.

His work contains a crumpled piece of paper, tightly packed into a ball. The piece evokes the possibility and anxiety of a blank page.

contact sheets

final images

I experimented with paper, light and colour to capture these photographs. I folded, scrunched and tore paper in different ways and tested strong and weak lighting to create different shadows and I reflected colours onto the paper. I like how these images turned out as they have a variety of light and dark tones, colour and greyscale, I liked capturing the different shapes the paper created.

I particularly like this image due to the different tones of black and white and how they deeply contrast against each other. I used artificial lighting to achieve the shadows and highlights and positioned the lighting at different angles to create sharper or weaker shadows. There is repetition in this image in the folded parts of the paper between the lights and darks. The positioning of the paper combined with its folds could represent an architectural structure of a sky scraper, this relates to how Creed uses familiar, every day objects to create sculptural installations.