I’m basically an optimistic person. It’s nice that we’re having this conversation on such an optimistic day. “Michael Craig-Martin” is at the Royal Academy in London from 21 September to ...

Michael Craig-Martin may use Day-Glo colours for his dazzling new alphabet paintings, but they're anything but childish. In fact, he probably sums them up best himself when he describes his work ...

I'm never bored.' Nor could one imagine being bored in his company - Craig-Martin is genial and amusing. His friend, the writer Peter Ackroyd, says, 'The quality I most admire about Michael is his ...

MICHAEL Craig-Martin’s Alphabet screen prints are on show in a Hayward Touring Exhibition at York College until October 7. He was a key figure for the YBA (Young British Artist) generation of ...

Bold, graphic style, a vibrant colour palette and focus on everyday objects — these features aptly describe the work of ...

Michael Craig-Martin looks out from his 21st-storey apartment ... got the British capital at his feet – in all senses? “I’m 83 tomorrow,” he says in a tone of wonder.

“It’s a funny project,” Sir Michael Craig-Martin says of his latest exhibition ... To be honest, if I’m starting at the beginning of something, I plan everything on my computer.

“I really like grown-up restaurants,” says Michael Craig-Martin ... in the show is one that I’m currently making”. No one would ever describe Craig-Martin as effusive, but his evident ...

Now 83, the Irish-born artist Michael Craig-Martin has waited a long time for this "career-spanning retrospective" at the Royal Academy, said Nancy Durrant in the London Evening Standard.

SEE ALSO: Michael Craig-Martin on Educating Damien Hirst Craig-Martin, 83, may have spent most of his life in Britain (his adopted homeland) but has yet to have a major show of this scale there.