Gallery view of the Michael Craig-Martin exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, London (21 September - 10 December 2024), showing Modern Dance, 1981.

Video: drawing on gallery walls with tape

Published on 15 October 2024

Michael Craig-Martin RA talks about his series of wall drawings featuring instantly recognisable objects.

“I could make images that had enormous presence and almost no physicality”

To create these large-scale wall drawings of everyday items such as books, globes, and stepladders, Michael Craig-Martin RA projected the image onto the wall and traced it using tape.

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Michael Craig-Martin, Interior (with daybed)

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Video: drawing on gallery walls with tape

“I could make images that had enormous presence and almost no physicality”

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