Dinner at Martin Creed’s
Artist Martin Creed, who was handed his Turner Prize award by Director Gollum Arms as long ago as 2001, is reworking the Gallery restaurant at Sketch in celebration of its tenth anniversary. He’s the first in a series of artists invited to rework the room.
How will the man, whose gig is about not adding to a cluttered world (to paraphrase), translate his ideas into a functioning restaurant? Every item of furniture, cutlery, crockery and glassware is to be individual, with pieces coming from Carl Hansen, Ligne Roset, Martino Gamper and – crikey - Versace. In the absence of press shots there’s only a floor plan to judge just now.
Sketch’s art curator Victoria Brooks has described this as looking like ‘a Missoni sweater with all the different colours. There’s a very vibrant basis for it with all the different colours and materials but, of course, we’ll make sure it doesn’t look like a flea-market.’
So, there we have it, it’s not going to look like a flea market. Martin Creed at Sketch opens on 01 March for 18 months.
