He's been hugely influential on the past two decades! The Turner Prize winner has helped rewrite the rules of contemporary art, especially through his collaborations with social and cultural groups.

22nd Feb- 13th May

This mid-career survey - the first in the artist's career - provides a fresh overview of his multi-faceted work. 

The exhibition incorporates almost all of his major works to date including installations, photographs, videos, posters, banners, performance works and sound pieces.

For details of the series of events accompanying the exhibition, click here.

Born in London in 1966, Jeremy Deller studied Art History at the Courtauld Institute and at Sussex University, where he did an MA. After meeting Andy Warhol in 1986 he spent two weeks at the Factory in New York. He began making artworks in the early 1990s, often showing them outside of conventional galleries. In 1993, while his parents were on holiday, he secretly used the family home for an exhibition titled Open Bedroom. Four years later he produced the musical performance Acid Brass with the Williams-Fairey Band, and began making art in collaboration with other people.

Deller staged The Battle of Orgreave in 2001, bringing together almost 1,000 people in a public re-enactment of a violent confrontation from the 1984 Miners’ Strike. Since winning the Turner Prize in 2004, he has made a number of documentaries on subjects ranging from exotic wrestler Adrian Street to die-hard international fans of the band Depeche Mode. He has continued making works in collaboration with people, organising (among other projects) urban parades and a cross-country journey across America in which Deller, along with an Iraqi citizen and an U.S. war veteran, travelled with a bomb-destroyed car from Baghdad.

Besides showing a huge variety of collaborative projects and seldom seen early works, Jeremy Deller: Joy in People recreates Open Bedroom and presents major new works and interventions, including a 3-D film, Exodus. A hugely influential artist over the past decade, Deller traces his broad interests in art and culture, in part, to childhood visits to museums like the Horniman, in South London. These early experiences might also explain his ongoing love of jumble sales, which he thinks of as a form of contemporary archaeology.