Martin Creed's vinyl collaboration

Friday 14 October 2011

Watch artist Martin Creed, who has just released an exclusive art and music vinyl with Nick McCarthy from Franz Ferdinand, busy in his studio hand-painting 100 copies of the record and talking about his work.

Video credit: Vinyl Factory

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