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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 hous...

The Suntory Foundation for the Arts (Directors General: Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi and Shingo Torii) has announced Jo Kondo as the recipient of the 55th (2023) Suntory Music Award, which is presented to individuals or ensembles for notable contributions to the development of Western-style music in Japan. Selection process , , The first round of selections to choose candidates was held on Monday, January 8, 2024 at the conference room of the International House of Japan. The competition continued wi...

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...

Or often you feel, like, misunderstood, and you want to get into the dark side of life, not that you know anything about it particularly. and so bacon, for me, wasjust, he kind of spoke to me. ijust thought, "this is just amazing that someone does this." and also, he was very articulate. when did you first see his paintings? i can't remember. i must have been about 13, 14. i can't remember the first time. and then you read what he's written about himself and the interviews, and you see him in interviews. he's incredibly charismatic. you didn't go to art school, did you? no, thank god. i would ...

That finished at the age of ii. but i loved paintings and i loved being around art, so that was something that was very special to me. on this cultural life, i ask my guests to choose those influences and experiences that have inspired their own creativity. and you've chosen film club at school, and in particular seeing ken russell's film version of tommy, the rock opera by the who. why have you chosen this? well, i don't think i've ever recovered from watching tommy, frankly. i'm still blown away by it, even that experience. i remember it very clearly. because, at school, the school was a ver...