This January I will be showing at two fairs, London Art Fair and Art Genève.
Flowers Gallery will be exhibiting prints from my National Property series at the London Art Fair from 20 January – 24 January 2016. Details:
Business Design Centre
52 Upper Street
Islington
London N1 0QH
T: 0207 288 6272
Opening Times:
Wed 20 January 11am – 9pm
Thurs 21 January 11am – 9pm
Fri 22 January 11am – 7pm
Sat 23 January 10am – 7pm
Sun 24 January 10am – 5pm
Artists will included Boomoon, Boyd & Evans, Prunella Clough, Bernard Cohen, Betsy Dadd, Jane Edden, Tom Hammick, Nicola Hicks, Patrick Hughes, Tom Lovelace, Ishbel Myerscough, Carol Robertson, Simon Roberts, Tai-Shan Schierenberg.
Heinzer Reszler will be exhibiting prints from my Last Moment series from 28 January – 31 January 2016. Details:
Palexpo S.A.
case postale 112
1218 le grand-saconnex
Genève
Stand D33
Thursday, January 28 12 – 8pm
Friday, January 29 12 – 8pm
Saturday, January 30 12 – 8pm
Sunday, January 31 12 – 8pm
Artists
MIRKO BASELGIA
SOPHIE BOUVIER AUSLÄNDER
THIBAULT BRUNET
ADRIEN COUVRAT
SYLVAIN CROCI-TORTI
SIMON ROBERTS
I will have works included in the Small is Beautiful exhibitions taking place at Flowers Gallery in London and New York. For this annual exhibition, contemporary artists working in all media are challenged to produce works with a fixed economy of scale, each piece measuring no more than 9 x 7 inches.
A discussion chaired by Zelda Cheatle with Chris Littlewood, Director of Photography at Flowers Gallery, and artist Simon Roberts. ‘Collecting Contemporary Photography’ is the first in a series of Pre-Fair talks to be held in the lead up to our 2016 edition.
This discussion is a unique opportunity to discover more about the role of the artist and dealer in the contemporary photography market. It will be an essential guide to collecting from the perspective of a dealer, curator and an artist and will examine how these roles interact with each other. The panellists will also explore the importance of photography within a collection, and to what extent work is made in view of the commercial art world. This discussion will be ideal for photography enthusiasts and art collectors at all levels.
Photo London 2016 (19-22 May 2016) is a unique festival of photography, centred on a major international photography Fair. Running once again in the spectacular and historic grounds of Somerset House, the Fair showcases the broad range of photographic practice, from vintage to contemporary. This series of discussions aims to address the main themes in Photography today.
A full talks programme will also be hosted during Photo London 2016, as part of a larger public programme supported by the LUMA Foundation.
Flowers Gallery will be presenting my work at Paris Photo.
For Paris Photo 2015, Flowers Gallery will mount a group exhibition, bringing together new works that blur the intersection between observed reality, constructed photography, appropriation and found objects. Exhibiting artists include Julie Cockburn, Nadav Kander, Jason Larkin, Tom Lovelace, Simon Roberts, Michael Wolf and Boomoon, who will showcase a major 10 metre long photographic work in the inaugural Salon d’Honneur gallery sector.
A profile of Simon Roberts’ Pierdom project on the occasion of a major exhibition at Brighton Museum & Art Gallery (October 2015 – February 2016). The film, by Lindsey Smith, explores Roberts’ working process, the inspiration behind the project and the history of the British Pleasure Pier.
Installation shots and recent press on National Property exhibition at Flowers Gallery.
FT Weekend Magazine, “Figures in a landscape,” July 2015 (pdf)
Time Out, “Take a stately Brit tour in Cork Street: Simon Roberts: National Property,” July 2015 (pdf)
Wall Street International, “Simon Roberts. National Property,” July 2015. (link)
BA High Life Magazine, “Simon Roberts: social landscapes of England,” July 2015 (link)
L’Oeil de la Photographie, “London: Simon Roberts, National Property at Flowers gallery,” July 2015 (link)
BBC Online, “In pictures: National Property,” July 2015 (link)
Walk to Free Art London, “361 Trough House Bridge, Eskdale by Simon Roberts,” July 2015 (link)
Lens Culture, “National Property: The Picturesque Imperfect,” July 2015 (link)
The exhibition runs until 8th August 2015.
Image: ‘Grouse shoot, Hutton-le-Hole, North Yorkshire, 2008’ Lambda Print, 110 X 150 cm
Flowers Gallery presents The British Figure, bringing together works by British artists exploring the human form over the past thirty years. Demonstrating diverse approaches to process, handling of materials and subject matter, they investigate broad themes from political and social allegory to issues of gender and sexuality, reflecting contemporary attitudes towards what it means to be human, and the world around us.
Above: Willy Lott’s House at Flatford, East Bergholt, Suffolk, 2014
Flowers Gallery is pleased to present a new series of photographs by Simon Roberts, ‘National Property: The Picturesque Imperfect’.
PRIVATE VIEW: TUESDAY 7 JULY 6 – 8PM
Building on his previous major bodies of work: We English (2009); The Election Project (2010) and Pierdom (2013); Roberts has turned his attention to heritage sites across England, exploring themes of identity, memory and nationhood through our everyday interactions with the landscape.
In 2014, Roberts travelled around the country to photograph popular scenic destinations, heritage sites and historic properties owned on behalf of the nation. Capturing the activities and interactions of visitors at each location, his photographs reflect on how the countryside has been modeled and managed for the purposes of leisure, and in turn, how our sense of belonging is determined by a connection to place.
The elevated perspective of his large-format tableaux sets the viewer at a critical distance from the scene. Taking his photographs from a high vantage point, often from the roof of his motorhome, Roberts attempts to map the patterns of contemporary life, which he describes as “governed by forces that are not possible to see from a position within the crowd”. Presenting an alternative viewpoint to the pastoral idyll, Roberts highlights our shared and sometimes imperfect experience of the landscape, inviting wider questions about private ownership and public usage of land.
Image: River Esk at Trough House Bridge, Eskdale, Cumbria, 2014
“Roberts’ work explores senses of belonging in landscapes. Since land invariably belongs to somebody, landscape is closely linked to notions of ownership, by individuals or institutions. Landscapes are also linked, beyond legal ownership, to larger worlds of nature and nation, beauty and history, as the term belonging extends to more shared senses of attachment, citizenship and entitlement.” – Stephen Daniels. Excerpt from the upcoming publication: Landscapes of the National Trust (Pavilion Books, October 2015).
Flowers Gallery will be previewing two new works from my soon-to-be-released series, National Property: The Picturesque Imperfect, at the Photo London fair this week.
Photo London will be held at Somerset House from 21 – 23 May.
