One of the best-known artists of his generation, and also highly influential for the next, Michael Craig-Martin (b.1941) has been celebrated worldwide for his conceptual artworks that are instantly recognisable.

In 2025, Petersfield Museum and Art Gallery will be displaying a selection of the artist’s prints that highlight his distinctive approach to depicting ordinary everyday items.

The Irish-born artist’s 1973 creation The Oak Tree continues to excite and provoke in equal measure, and as a Goldsmiths Tutor he has been credited as helping foster the Young British Artists who were students at the time.

For over four decades, Craig-Martin has been bringing bright and psychedelic colours to his exploration of the relationship between real objects and their depictions, highlighting the transitory nature of objects in 21st century contemporary life.

The prints include depictions of headphones, lightbulbs and trainers and invite the viewer to consider the transitory items that fill the world around us.