Bill Drummond

Currently active as a writer and artist, Bill Drummond (born April 29, 1953) is best known as co-founder of The KLF, the avant-garde "pop group" of the late eighties, the K Foundation, its nineties "avant-art" media-mani

Currently active as a writer and artist, Bill Drummond (born April 29, 1953) is best known as co-founder of The KLF, the avant-garde "pop group" of the late eighties, the K Foundation, its nineties "avant-art" media-manipulating successor, and for burning a million pounds in 1994. He has also written several books, produced a variety of different conceptual art projects (collected under the Penkiln Burn label) and helped to set-up The Foundry, a thriving arts centre set within the aegis of a public house in Shoreditch, London.

Drummond was born William E. Drummond in Butterworth, Cape Town, South Africa. His father was a preacher for the Church of Scotland. His family moved back to the United Kingdom when he was 18 months old, and he grew up in Scotland.