A former Methodist Church in Camden has been transformed into an uplifting art installation by Turner Prize-winning artist Martin Creed. Curated by film maker and curatorHala Matar, the solo exhibition Everything Is Going to Be Alright features a 12 metre neon artwork on the building’s façade which lends the exhibition its title, while the vast high-ceilinged interior is filled with hundreds of white balloons in a recreation of Creed’s conceptual installation Work No. 3891 Half The Air In a Given Space, which returns to London for the first time since 2014.
As we live through an unsettling period with conflicts all over the world, Creed’s playful installation presents an opportunity to escape from anxiety-inducing reality for a few moments into a sensory environment and engage in childlike play. The work was first presented at the Hayward Gallery in 2014 and then in Los Angeles in 2022, in collaboration with Dries Van Noten.
Martin Creed is a Turner Prize-winning artist whose work spans sculpture, painting, installation, music, and performance. Known for his conceptual approach and wry sense of humour, Creed challenges traditional distinctions between art and everyday life.Creed’s work has been exhibited at major institutions worldwide, including Tate Modern, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), and the Centre Pompidou.
The exhibition’s Curator Hala Matar is a curator and filmmaker known for her dynamic approach to contemporary art and storytelling. She has curated exhibitions at Dries Van Noten’s Los Angeles gallery, Little House, and collaborated with internationally renowned artists, including Martin Creed, Ryan Gander, Madeline Hollander, Peter Shire, and Darren Bader. As a filmmaker, she is the first female director from Bahrain to make a feature film with her debut film Electra, starring Academy Award nominee Maria Bakalova, set for release in May 2025.
Camden Arts Projects will programme a series of exhibitions and events and also house London-based bakery Little Bread Pedlar. A limited edition of miniature ceramics artworks by filmmaker and artist Charlotte Colbert will be hidden within a selection of pastries following the tradition of “feves” where small trinkets are to be discovered in a king cake or similar dessert. The person who finds the fève usually is awarded special privileges or gifts for the day. Fèves have also become collectors items, and in France, their collectors are known as fabophiles or favophiles.
Martin Creed Everything Is Going To Be Alright is at Camden Arts Projects, 176 Prince of Wales Road, London until 29th June, 2025.
