I’m giving an artist talk as part of the Milim Community & Photoworks autumn lecture season where I’ll be discussing my practice and more.
5 Oct 2023 18:00 – 19:00 BST
Book here (free): https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/716127445467?
The Milim Community is a newly formed charitable organisation whose objectives are to carry on activities that benefit the photographic community In particular they aim to provide a platform for photographers who may not have had the same advantages as others, for instance those from underrepresented ethnic backgrounds. Amongst other activities they run workshops and provide information and support as to how to access the professional and artistic worlds of photography.
Join artist Simon Roberts, Melanie Vandenbrouck, Sculpture Curator at the V&A museum, and Photography Curator Susanna Brown for a conversation about Roberts’ series Beneath the Pilgrim Moon.⠀
RSVP here.
As part of Photo London’s online talks programmed, I will be doing an In Conversation with curator Susanna Brown:
Wednesday, 16 June
6.30 pm BST | 7.30 pm CET | 1.30 pm ET
You can register here: https://photolondon.org/online-artist-talk-simon-robert-in-conversation-with-susanna-brown/
Susanna Brown is a curator and writer specialising in twentieth-century and contemporary photography. She is the author of numerous books and has curated exhibitions shown at twenty venues around the world. Her recent projects include ‘Tim Walker: Wonderful Things’, ‘Horst: Photographer of Style’, ‘Selling Dreams: One Hundred Years of Fashion Photography’, and ‘Queen Elizabeth II by Cecil Beaton’. She lectures and teaches regularly and has been a juror for awards including the Hyères International Festival of Fashion and Photography and the Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography.
I’ll be participating in next week’s Sound and Vision | Virtual drawing class. Each week hosts Mat Cahill (Royal Museums Greenwich), Phin Jennings (Rise Art) and special guests open the doors to the collections of their organisation as well as their record collections. See the latest contemporary art from Rise Art and the rich archive of Royal Museums Greenwich alongside with a broad variety of music from experimental jazz to folk and classical to electronica.
I will be presenting a new video work based on my A Daily Sea series of photographs.
Participants will be given the time of each playlist to respond to each visual work, with time to share and discuss what they have created after each playlist.
All you need to do is bring your favourite drawing implements and your creativity to respond to the rich stimuli provided. No experience required.
You can book for free here: https://www.eventbrite.com/o/rise-art-10607636293
AOP Photographer and one of the AOP’s board directors, Carol Allen-Storey hosts the fourth in this series and asks the panel, how has COVID-19 impacted your assignments and personal projects as a visual storyteller? I joined fellow photographers Jillian Edelstein, Liz Hingley and Gideon Mendel.
Watch here: https://vimeo.com/432625248
And all eleven of the Breakfast Club conversations can be viewed here: https://www.the-aop.org/what-s-on/videos
Photo © Sandra Mickiewicz, 2019
A unique opportunity to work with acclaimed British artist-photographer Simon Roberts, whose recent commission for Pallant House Gallery, Inscapes, explores our relationship to landscape.
Start with a walk in the Sussex Downs before returning to the studio at Pallant House to look collectively at the photos you have taken and discuss landscape practice.
Details on meeting points and logistics to be supplied two weeks before the course begins.
For more information, visit the gallery website here: https://pallant.org.uk/whats-on/practical-class-landscape-photography-masterclass-simon-roberts/
Photographer Simon Roberts and writer Dr Alexandra Harris explore the meaning of place with Pallant House Director Simon Martin on 27 July 2019.
How are we connected to our local landscapes? Simon Roberts’ new series of photographic, video- and sound-based landscape studies explores these connections. For this In Conversation event he is joined by Alexandra Harris, author of Weatherland and Romantic Moderns to explore how we build connections with familiar landscapes.
View the event details here.
The Format Festival gallery space at Furthest from the Sea Music in Derby’s Strand Arcade is opening its doors to host The Brexit Shop curated by Peter Bonnell.
Join artists Simon Roberts, Martin Seeds and Mark Duffy for a tour and talk of their Brexit related projects. This is a free event but spaces are limited so booking is essential.
Image © Ed Alcock
I will be taking part in a panel discussion around Brexit and the arts, alongside Max Barnett, Editor-in-Chief of Pylot Magazine, and the photographers Ed Alcock and Sukhi Dhanda. It’s being convened by Mina Raven Art.
Factory 45, 44-46 Newington Causeway, SE1 6DR London
From the press to the Internet, social media, TV, and social interactions in everyday life, the Brexit is currently present everywhere. The consequences are as important inside as outside of the UK, it is shifting our environment and changing our relationship to one another.
While UK’s exit approaches and the confusion becomes more widespread, some artists have been exploring the impacts of the Brexit in our daily life and how the recent events have shaped their own journey.
More information and tickets: https://www.facebook.com/events/532865310458115/
Image: Screengrab from The Brexit Lexicon by Simon Roberts, 2018
‘Brexit will spell the end of British art as we know it. Discuss. – A Panel Discussion
According to the artist Bob and Roberta Smith leaving the EU will have a devastating impact on our artists, museums and galleries, with Brexit meaning the end of a period of British culture born out of the ashes of the Second World War that was open, intellectually curious and essentially generous. As the UK Government releases Technical Notices on a ‘No Deal Brexit’ and we approach the date of the People’s Vote March for the Future in Central London on 20 October, our panelists will explore the possible impact of Brexit on the cultural sector and ask how we should respond as artists and stakeholders working within the arts. The panel will also discuss the changing funding landscape and our shifting relationship with Europe.
Free but tickets must be booked here:
Panelists will include:
Shoair Mavlian, Director of Photoworks and former Assistant Curator at Tate Modern.
Mahtab Hussain, whose work explores the relationship between identity, heritage and displacement. Mahtab was recently featured on the BBC 4 documentary ‘What Do Artists Do All Day?’.
Natasha Caruana, artist and Senior Lecturer of Photography at the University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, UK
Michael Lightfoot, artist, illustrator, and director of Artists for Brexit, a network of artists, arts workers and arts enthusiasts who support the process of securing independence for the UK.
and Uta Kogelsberger, a London based artist working with photography, video installation and sound. Uta’s new work ‘Uncertain Subjects: Part II’ being shown as part of the 2018 Brighton Photo Biennial gives a voice to those who feel they are not being heard in the current Brexit negotiations.
This event forms part of the 2018 Brighton Photo Biennial festival and is supported by Arts Council England, Photoworks and the Brighton Photo Fringe.
It has been convened by Brighton-based artist Simon Roberts, who is showing work during the festival exploring Brexit.
