Pallant House Gallery (Chichester, UK): Inscapes, June – October ( link)įormat Festival (Derby, UK): The Brexit Lexicon, March – April ( link) 2018įlowers Gallery (New York, USA): Homeland, December – January 2019 ( link) The Art Foundation (Athens, Greece): The Brexit Lexicon|Complex States, October – December ( link) 2019 The Container (Tokyo, Japan): Brexshit Machine|Complex States, December – January 2021 ( link) Outside of his own professional practice he is involved with several not for profit organisations having formerly served as a trustee of Photoworks and currently working as an ambassador for FotoDocument and the Ian Parry Scholarship.įor more information, interviews and downloads, please select from the drop-down menus below.įormer H&M – Grosvenor Shopping Centre (Chester, UK): How did we get here? Where do we go now?, May – Juneįotografia Europea (Reggio Emilia, Italy): Merrie Albion & The Brexit Lexicon, April – June ( link) 2022įlowers Gallery (London, UK): Beneath the Pilgrim Moon, September – November ( link) 2021Ĭhâteau de Flamanville (Flamanville, France): Normandy – Nos Jours De Fêtes, June – September ( link) 2020 He is currently a Visiting Research Fellow at University of Cumbria – Institute of the Arts. Roberts holds a BA Hons in Cultural Geography from The University of Sheffield, and is a regular public speaker and visiting lecturer. He has been commissioned to make several large-scale public artworks and recognised with numerous awards including an Honorary Fellowship to the Royal Photographic Society, the Vic Odden Award and grants from Arts Council England and the John Kobal Foundation.Īuthor of several critically acclaimed monographs including Motherland (Chris Boot, 2007), We English (Chris Boot, 2009), Pierdom (Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2013) and Merrie Albion – Landscape Studies of a Small Island (Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2017), his work has also been profiled and published widely including in the New Yorker, Granta, National Geographic, ArtForum, Wallpaper, amongst others. In 2010 he was appointed the official British Election Artist by the House of Commons Works of Art Committee to produce a visual record of the General Election on behalf of the UK Parliamentary Art Collection and in 2014 he represented Britain during the UK-Russia Year of Culture. He has exhibited widely and his photographs reside in major public and private collections, including the George Eastman House, Deutsche Börse Art Collection and Victoria & Albert Museum. Widely recognised for his large-format, tableaux photographs of the British landscape, his practice also encompasses video, text and installation work, which together, interrogate notions of identity and belonging, and the complex relationship between history, place and culture. Simon Roberts (b.1974) is a visual artist based in Brighton, UK.
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