Simon Starling

Simon Starling (1967)

is an English conceptual artist and was the winner of the 2005 Turner Prize.
He studied photography at Trent Polytechnic Nottingham and then attended Glasgow School of Art.
The idea of efficiency is a theme that informs much of his work, including Tabernas Desert Run (2004), featuring a bicycle fuelled by hydrogen and oxygen that he rode 66 kilometres across Spain's Tabernas Desert. The only waste product was water, which he then used to paint a watercolour of a cactus that he had seen on his trip.