The radical act is still one of Britain’s definitive conceptual artworks. It has remained a deceptively simple but bold meditation on “transubstantiation,” the idea that imbuing an earthly ...

When Dublin-born artist Michael ... oak tree. “It’s a very particular work, and it’s been a very interesting thing in my career because it’s kind of had a life of its own,” said Craig ...

Michael Craig-Martin looks out from his 21st-storey apartment ... His first significant success came in 1974 with An Oak Tree, a seminal piece of British conceptual art, in which a glass of ...

Now 83, the Irish-born artist Michael Craig-Martin has waited a long time for ... The first thing we see here is 1973's "An Oak Tree": the work consists of a glass of water on a shelf, accompanied ...

In 1974 he upped the ante by exhibiting a glass of water on a glass shelf, titling it An Oak Tree and claiming that ... a sculpture a lump or an assemblage of stuff. As a Catholic, Craig-Martin was ...

Sir Michael Craig-Martin is one of the most influential ... Decades before, in 1974, he'd made headlines of his own with a piece called An Oak Tree - now widely considered a landmark moment ...

“I really like grown-up restaurants,” says Michael Craig-Martin ... by a Q&A-style text in which Craig-Martin explains why it is, in fact, an oak tree. Deeply thought and cleverly argued ...

Sir Michael Craig-Martin is one of the most influential ... Decades before, in 1974, he'd made headlines of his own with a piece called An Oak Tree - now widely considered a landmark moment ...

It seems apt that on the day in July on which I go to Sir Michael Craig-Martin’s studio near ... The 1973 work that made his name, “An Oak Tree”, is, in fact, a glass of water on a shelf ...

At 83, you could forgive Michael Craig-Martin for grumbling that it ... the apogee of his own early conceptual explorations, An Oak Tree (1973) – a glass of water on a shelf, accompanied ...