Richard Deacon | Think Like an Artist | TateShots

Artist Richard Deacon answers the question: where do ideas come from?

Artist and former Turner Prize winner Richard Deacon uses unformed basic materials to make sculptures that explore ideas that define human experience through language and the senses. Although the forms devised by Deacon are fundamentally abstract in appearance, they playfully reference the human body and world – Art For Other People #14 1984, The Eye Has It 1984, If The Shoe Fits 1981.

In an outtake from a previous TateShots interview, Deacon lightheartedly tells us where inspiration comes from.

[gregdahlen]

that's right, sometimes artists get ideas from loftier places or sometimes everyday life? but what would be a "loftier place"?

[musikalitet]

Ideas comes from "God knows where"

[musikalitet]

ha ha ha a funny answer . ha ha the idea came from the supermarked. ..

[musikalitet]

ideas comes from good knows where, then it is nice with an answer....From the ha ha ha.