Photocopy off-cuts from Peter Osborne’s text Conceptual Art 2002 (2014)
Making art that may be deemed ‘Conceptual’ in the 2010s made me want to find out whether my art would be labelled as such, or not. I wanted to know why Lawrence Weiner and Martin Creed reject the label. My research spanning texts from the early twentieth century to the 2010s resulted in the making of an artwork that required no intellectual thought, or a specific skill, ripping off the bottoms of my photocopies of the Survey at the beginning of Peter Osborne’s book Conceptual Art, because I had noticed I had copied my fingers as well as the text. The artwork felt non-conceptual in its creation, but could paradoxically be seen to be, as it is critical of writing about art by non-artists, is arranged in a series, shares the photocopy aesthetic of several Conceptual works, and is framed as many Conceptual works are. The subtitle Survey is visible at the top left.