Bats and bedrooms: Jeremy Deller's Joy in People – in pictures
A walk-through mural of Jeremy Deller's face, by Stuart Hughes. A slideshow in which the artist discusses his work plays inside Photograph: Linda Nylind Valerie's Snack Bar, 2009, Deller's reconstruction of a cafe in Bury market, Lancashire. Tea is served Photograph: Linda Nylind So Many Ways to Hurt You (The Life and Times of Adrian Street), 2010. Deller's documentary about the Welsh wrestler is framed by a mural of a Welsh pit-head and Florida beach. A caped mannequin of Street stands to the leftPhotograph: Linda Nylind
A visitor looks at Deller's Melancholy, 1995. Performers will lie on a sofa in front of the wall for the duration of the show, reading books and being melancholy Photograph: Linda Nylind My Failures, a banner by Deller, announces a number of the artist's unrealised projects. His proposal for Trafalgar Square's Fourth Plinth, a life-size model of British UN weapons inspector Dr David Kelly, was rejected Photograph: Linda Nylind Open Bedroom, 1988-1994, a reconstruction of Deller's teenage bedroom, where he once staged an exhibition while his parents were away. A film about joyriding plays on the portable TV Photograph: Linda Nylind Detail from a corner of Open Bedroom, a reconstruction of Deller's teenage bedroom. The T-shirts, featuring fragments from tabloid headlines, were sold at a shop in Covent Garden, London Photograph: Linda NylindExodus, 2012, Deller's 3D film shot in and around a Texan bat cave. The film revisits his 2004 Turner prize-winning film, Memory Bucket Photograph: Linda Nylind The Battle of Orgreave, 2001 – Deller's re-enactment film about the battle between police and striking miners in the Yorkshire village in 1984 Photograph: Martin JenkinsonDeller's banner, Joy in People, 2011, carried in a demonstration Photograph: Linda Nylind Jeremy Deller, The Search for Bez, 1994, featuring the head of the Happy Mondays' dancer and band member. After the band split in 1993, Deller went on a failed quest to locate Bez in Manchester (he was in Ibiza)Photograph: David LeveneJeremy Deller, The History of the World, 1997, a map of the social, political and musical connections between acid house and brass bands Photograph: David LeveneLife Is to Blame for Everything, banner by Jeremy Deller, is hung outside the Hayward Gallery in LondonPhotograph: David LeveneArt Exhibition, banner by Jeremy Deller, outside the Hayward Gallery in LondonPhotograph: David Levene
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