jeremy deller, welcome to this cultural life. thank you. you were brought up in dulwich in south london. what are your earliest cultural memories of home? home. well, church, actually. there s culture in church. yeah. there s a human culture, there s people, and then there s music and there s visuals and smells and so on. so, the church, maybe early on as a child, is something i remember. i remember seeing help, the beatles film, very early on. i remember telling my mother i d just discovered these four men who live in the same house as each other, which was very much like the house we lived in. and i was amazed. then she told me, oh, actually, i know those people. that s the beatles and they re not around any more. that was your introduction to the beatles? yeah, and i was very sad. i remember being very sad about it, thinking that they didn t live together properly and it was actually. they weren t around. so help was a big influence on me, and television in general, i t
they weren t around. so help was a big influence on me, and television in general, i think. i d watch tonnes of telly and, i mean, istill do, but that was something that was very important for me. so your parents, were they artistic? erm, not, not massively, no. but my father was interested in art and taking me to museums and art galleries. so that was something that, from an early age, i wasn t really kicking a ball around or that sort of thing. i was going to the imperial war museum, the horniman s museum, places like that, the natural history museum, cos if you live in london, you have that on your doorstep, almost literally. so that was something that was very important to me. all sorts of museums, then, all sorts of subjects. so it wasn t just the paintings, it wasn t just the art? well, ifanything, paintings came later cos you re looking at objects and, as a child, you want to look at objects. you want to look at, er, african masks or animals in pickle jars, and just stuffed anim
jeremy deller, welcome to this cultural life. thank you. you were brought up in dulwich in south london. what are your earliest cultural memories of home? home. well, church, actually. there s culture in church. yeah. there s a human culture, there s people, and then there s music and there s visuals and smells and so on. so, the church, maybe early on as a child, is something i remember. i remember seeing help, the beatles film, very early on. i remember telling my mother i d just discovered these four men who live in the same house as each other, which was very much like the house we lived in. and i was amazed. then she told me, oh, actually, i know those people. that s the beatles and they re not around any more. that was your introduction to the beatles? yeah, and i was very sad. i remember being very sad about it, thinking that they didn t live together properly and it was actually.