‘The Public World is My Studio’: Jeremy Deller’s Public Projects http://www.seismopolite.com/the-public-world-s-my-studio-jeremy-dellers-public-projects[25/06/2018 8:14:29 AM] Norwegian English Art Map! Share Article December 28, 2016 ‘The Public World is My Studio’: Jeremy Deller’s Public Projects [1] Written by Holly Arden In 2009, the English artist Jeremy Deller travelled across the US with the rusted and deformed shell of a car that had been destroyed by a bomb in an Iraqi street. With this wreckage tied on the back of a trailer, Deller stopped at multiple sites along the route to hold conversations with passers-by that were inspired by this unusual cargo—part of a project titled It Is What It Is: Conversations About Iraq.[2] In a very different type of scene three years later, crowds of adults and children ran and jumped onto Deller’s to-scale, inflatable replica of Stone Henge, Sacrilege (2012). Swathed in mysterious, ancient history as one of England’s venerated heritage icons, the standing stones in Deller’s version were instead rushed upon, bounced against, and perhaps most importantly, enjoyed by the public.[3] In a variety of ways over the last decade, Deller’s works in public places—which are at times sobering like It Is What It Is and just as often filled with levity and humour like Sacrilege—have explored diverse dialogues with the public as an idea About Contact Follow us Back I ssues