"Even artists who lean towards the conceptual tend to have had fine art training, and possess some manual facility. But Deller was kicked out of his school art class aged 12 for incompetence."

An utterly charming profile of Jeremy Deller by Charlotte Higgins

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/apr/01/acid-house-ancient-rites-jeremy-deller-collaborative-unsellable-art