The origins of Conceptual Art can be dated back to French-American artist Marcel Duchamp’s ‘fountain’ sculpture (1917), which consists of a porcelain urinal signed "R. Mutt" presented at the Grand Central Palace in New York. Significantly it was a piece centred on an idea, not the finished product. Conceptual artists propose that art could exist solely as an idea, an instruction, or the documentation of a creative process.

Often everyday ordinary objects, such as a banana, can be used to playfully challenge serious art traditions and engage the audience intellectually.

What is art anyway?

"The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world."

Marcel Duchamp (1887 - 1968)