Turner Prize winner Jeremy Deller comes to Helston at CAST and Helston College

Internationally celebrated artist Jeremy Deller will spend an evening at CAST in Penrose Road and will also visit Helston Community College where he will meet post-16 students.

Head of art at Helston Community College Gavin Bloor is bringing together a large group of Fine Art, BTEC, and Photography students for an opportunity to talk with Deller about his life and work.

Meanwhile, CAST is presenting a film that represents Deller's investigations into a very different aspect of British history.

First aired by the BBC in 2019, Everybody in the Place: An incomplete history of Britain 1984-1992, is an hour-long documentary exploring the socio-political history and contemporary legacy of the 'Second Summer of Love'.

From the genesis of house music in the gay clubs of Chicago and the post-industrial wasteland of Detroit, through the sound systems of British-Caribbean communities, Deller charts the momentum that exploded from illicit underground dance floors, cementing acid house and rave music in the mainstream consciousness.

Based on a real-life lecture he delivered to a class of A-Level Politics students, the film uses rare and unseen archive footage to illustrate his telling of this significant cultural movement.

Born in 1966, Jeremy Deller won the Turner Prize in 2004, largely on the strength of his work The Battle of Orgreave, a re-enactment of the clash that took place on June 18, 1984 between police and miners during the miners' strike.

Jeremy Deller competing in the Final of University Challenge Christmas 2020, representing the Courtauld Institute of Art, where he studied Art History

Deller went on to represent Britain at the Venice Biennale in 2013, and then in 2016 won a commission to commemorate the terrible losses suffered at the Battle of the Somme. Working in collaboration with Rufus Norris, director of The National Theatre, Deller orchestrated a moving manifestation of these lost lives, as young men from all over Britain volunteered to appear in WW1 battledress in cities throughout the country.

Under Gavin's direction, students from Helston Community College have been researching these and other examples of Deller’s work and will have opportunities to ask individual questions during his visit on Wednesday.

Deller's evening at CAST is sold out, but Everybody in the Place is showing continuously in CAST’s black box screening space during opening hours, from Tuesday to Saturday each week, 10am to 5pm. Originally scheduled to run until the end of this month, it has now been extended until Saturday, October 15. Admission is free and all are welcome.

The film is looped to run throughout the day and runs for just over an hour. The day's first screening starts at 10am and subsequent screenings start just after the hour.