I”ll be showing a few Pierdom pieces at PARIS PHOTO. Please come by and see the stand, Nov 14 – 17 at the Grand Palais in booth A43.

More information available here.

Pierdom will be featured in a group show titled ‘Uragano’ at the Palazzo Tagliaferro contemporary culture centre in Andora. The work will be exhibited alongside that of Andrea Guastavino and Oriella Montin, curated by Nicola Davide Angerame.

For more information about the gallery visit their website here.

Prints from Pierdom will be on show at Robert Morat Galerie at unseen photo fair, Amsterdam from 26 – 29th September 2013. Signed copies of the book will also be available.

You can find more about the work Robert will be showing here.

 

Copies of The Election Project newspaper are currently available for free at Flowers Gallery in London during the Top UK Casinos run of the exhibition Nicola Green – In Seven Days…. / Simon Roberts – The Election Project.

 

Art, Election & History – An artist talk and reception with Nicola Green & Simon Roberts

What is the role of the artist in the portrayal of political events?

Please join Flowers Gallery for a private reception and artist talk with Nicola Green and Simon Roberts on 26th March 2013, as part of the current exhibition Nicola Green: In Seven Days… / Simon Roberts: The Election Project which continues until 13th April.

Drinks will be served from 6pm.

The artists will be in conversation from 7pm.

Please RSVP to [email protected]

Image: We English and XXX Olympiad prints exhibited at Landmark, Somerset House, March 2013

The online magazine Distorted Arts has reviewed my We English work, which is currently featured in the Landmark Exhibition at Somerset House in London.

“Roberts’s photographs reside somewhere between documentary and pure landscape. Many of his images contain poignant vignettes set against dynamic panoramas. Camel Estuary is populated with staffage straining against one another. Their interaction enlivens the scene, while the tamed sea, blue sky and sweeping shore evoke the English tradition of land, leisure and pleasure.

A contemporary archive of Englishness; Roberts’s work captures people, places and events beautifully. Figures in the landscape are small, but significant – the Arcadian shepherds and smiling rural folk of a Victorian landscape are replaced by windswept trekkers, crowded stadiums and post-modern reverie.”

You can read the whole review here.

And view an online gallery of images from the exhibition on the Guardian’s website here.

Landmark: The Fields of Photography at Somerset House from 14 March – 28 April 2013. 

Image: Installing framed prints by Seba Kurtis at Darley Mills © Bert Dankaert

Check out our POC Collective exhibition currently on show as part of the Format Festival in Derby. More information here.

Photograph: Placards from demonstrations across the UK, 2010 – 2012 (Digital collage) © Simon Roberts

As part of this year’s Format Photography Festival I will be exhibiting an eclectic collection of original protest placards collected from UK demonstrations against economic cuts.

The placards form part of my Let This Be A Sign series and will be exhibited in Derby’s stunning Silk Mill building, which stands on the site of the world’s first factory and is the gateway to the UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Trade Union artefacts from The Silk Mill collection will also be on display.The museum is the location of the historic ‘Derby Turn Out‘ when the silk workers, supported by their colleagues in other trades, left work from November 1833 to March 1834 to defend the right to combine in a Trade Union.

For more information, visit http://www.formatfestival.com/artists/simon-roberts

As part of the exhibition, we’ve also organised a Placard Making Workshop. So what would you protest about? Taking inspiration from ‘Let this be a sign’ you can make your own placard, photograph yourself and upload the images to Derby At Work. The event is being run in collaboration with Guy Atkins from Make The March and 50K Club.

The workshop will take place on-

16 March 10.00 – 16:00

17 March 13:00 – 16:00

You can find out more here- http://www.formatfestival.com/events/make-your-own-placard-workshop.

Exhibition: 32 Paintings
At: Phoenix Art Gallery and Studios, 10-14 Waterloo Place, Brighton BN2 9NB
Preview and Performance: Friday 8 Feb, 6-8pm
Exhibition runs: 9th February – 24th March
Open Weds – Sundays, 11am – 5pm

Flowers Gallery will be exhibiting my ‘The Election Project’ work alongside the work of Nicola Green. Nicola will be exhibiting ‘In Seven Days….’ her series produced as artist in residence on the Obama election campaign in 2008.

You can find out more about the exhibition here. We were both interviewed on BBC Radio 4’s Front Row program recently, discussing our differing approaches to documenting the electoral process. You can listen in here.

I’m delighted to say that copies of my specially produced newspaper will be available at the exhibition.

Flowers will also be exhibiting two painting shows in their London gallery spaces:

Boyd and Evans Paintings, Flowers – Kingsland Road: 14 February – 13 April 2013

Claerwen James, Flowers – Cork Street, 13 February – 16 March 2013