Image: Savignano, Italy. June 2011 © Simon Roberts
My work will be included in the group show “Sin_tesis: paesaggio, industria, società” at the photography festival Rovinj (Croatia), “Rovinj PHOTODAYS” 2013. The exhibition is curated by Stefania Rössl & Massimo Sordi and includes work by
- Guido Guidi (Italia)
Via Emilia, un chilometro. 1984, 2012 - Martin Parr (UK)
Made in Italy - Andrew Phelps (USA / Auastria)
The edge of the spiral - Simon Roberts (UK)
Una storia italiana - Mark Steinmetz (USA)
From a September - Raimond Wouda (Paesi Bassi)
While everything flows - Marco Zanta (Italia)
20 fotografie e 6 appunti
The photo exhibition will be staged at the “County Museum”, Rovinj Heritage Museum. Find out more information here.
Photograph: Southend Pier, 2011 © Simon Roberts
Work from Pierdom is included in an upcoming group show at The Museum of London Docklands called . The exhibition brings together the work of 14 renowned and up-and-coming contemporary artists who have been inspired by the outer limits of the Thames where the river becomes the sea. The exhibition marks the 10th anniversary of the Museum of London Docklands, which is housed in a quayside Georgian warehouse built upon London’s connection to the sea.
With its dramatic landscape – desolate mudflats and saltmarshes, vast open skies, container ports, power stations and seaside resorts – the Estuary has long been a rich source of inspiration for artists and writers. Through film, photography, painting and printmaking, the contemporary artists featured in this exhibition offer new insight into this often overlooked, yet utterly compelling, environment and the people that live and work there.
Featured artworks:
• Thames Film, William Raban
• Seafort Project, Stephen Turner
• Thames Painting: The Estuary and Study for The Estuary, Michael Andrews
• Purfleet from Dracula’s Garden and Dagenham, Jock McFadyen
• Horizon (Five Pounds a Belgian), John Smith
• Southend, from the Pierdom Series, Simon Roberts
• Gravesend, Christiane Baumgartner
• 51º 29″.9″ North – 0º11″ East, Rainham Barges, Bow Gamelan Ensemble
• Golden Tide, Gayle Chong Kwan
• Jaunt, Andrew Kötting
• Thames Gateway, Peter Marshall
• A new film commission by Nikolaj Larsen
Estuary runs from 17 May – 27 Oct 2013 and you can read more about the exhibition in article written by David Spence, Director of Programmes, here-
Exhibition organiser Elpie Psalti takes you on a tour of the Estuary exhibition picking out personal highlights to tell the story of the Thames through the frame of contemporary art on Wednesday , June 26, 2013, 13 :00 -14 :00. The event is free and you can book here.
KLOMPCHING GALLERY will be exhibiting my work at the upcoming AIPAD Photography Show New York.
You can find them in Booth 433.
Check the gallery’s blog throughout March, to read a short profile on each of the artists whose work they will be presenting at the Fair – http://klompching.blogspot.com/
Opening Night Gala, benefiting inMotion
Wednesday, April 3: 5pm–9pm
Show Hours:
Thursday–Saturday, April 4–6: 11:00am–7pm
Sunday, April 7: 11:00am–6pm
Above: South East Hertfordshire Bird-Watchers, Holkham, 2008 © Simon Roberts
An exhibition of photographs from artists in the Piece of Cake collective will be on show during the Format Photography Festival. We will be hosting an opening event on Sunday 10th March at 13.00.
© Bert Danckaert
Created in Rouen in 2002 at the initiative of French photographer Charles Fréger, Piece of Cake, comprises of European and North American artists. Our purpose is to enable these artists to interact as they create, produce, and distribute their works. A major part of POC’s activity includes regular workshops. Four are held each year, two in Europe and two in North America. Format Festival plays host to the current European workshop and several POC artists present a selection of their work here.
© Friederike von Rauch
Artists exhibiting:
Andrew Phelps
Bert Danckaert
Birgitta Lund
Cara Phillips
Cassander Eeftinck Schattenkerk
Chan-Hyo Bae
Charles Fréger
Charlott Markus
Friederike von Rauch
Götz Diergarten
Jonathan Gitelson
Loan Nguyen
Marina Gadonneix
Mathieu Bernard-Reymond
Matthias Koch
Patrícia Almeida & David-Alexandre Guéniot
Petros Efstathiadis
Seba Kurtis
Simon Roberts
Ville Lenkkeri
© Seba Kurtis
The exhibition takes place in Darley Mill and shares a space with Derventio – a working independent micro brewery. As a unique offer to festival visitors, ale is available to buy on request every day throughout the exhibition (except for 16, 23 & 31 March)
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.
Photograph: Amerta Movement Workshop, Avebury Henge, Wiltshire, 2nd June 2008
© Simon Roberts, from We English
Positive View Foundation has unveiled details of its next major exhibition to be held at London’s Somerset House in London this March – a sweeping overview of the rich genre of 21st Century Landscape photography. The novel exhibition is the first of its kind anywhere to show both the harsh, even brutal realities of the changing environment, as well as its enduring and stunning beauty.
The exhibition will include several of my prints from We English and XXX Olympiad. There is more information available here.
‘Landmark: the Fields of Photography’ is a wide-ranging and ground-breaking exhibition featuring more than 70 of the world’s most highly regarded photographers from North and South America, Africa, Europe and Asia, with many of them showcasing previously unseen and recently completed works. The exhibition will run from 14th March – 28th April 2013 and is curated by the globally respected curator, William A. Ewing.
Focusing on our rapidly changing planet, ‘Landmark: the Fields of Photography’ features more than 170 original works of art taken by enterprising photographers employing technology ranging from 19th Century plate-camera techniques to the use of planes, drones, robots and even satellites to capture vivid images of earth’s varied terrain – and even distant planets. Many of the major names in photography are represented: Mitch Epstein, Nadav Kandar, Ryan McGinley, Robert Adams, Simon Norfolk, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Lee Friedlander, Simon Roberts, Toshio Shibata, Robert Polidori and many others contributing spectacular imagery. Also featured are striking images by a younger generation of photographers: Pieter Hugo, Susan Evans, Raphael Dallaporta, Penelope Umbrico, Mathieu Bernard-Reymond, and others.
Exhibition hashtag: #LandmarkExhibition
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
An exhibition of We English will be on show at the Phos cultural centre in Torino, Italy from 31st January to 1st March 2013.
Join us for the opening on January 31st 2013, 6.30 pm.
Please see the centre’s website for more details- http://www.phosfotografia.com/en/event/we-english/
An exhibition of Pierdom, curated by Claudio Composti, will be on show at MC2 Gallery in Milan, Italy, from 30 January 2013 – 22 February 2013. A small selection of
prints from XXX Olympiad will also be exhibited.
For more information, visit the gallery’s website here.
An associated exhibition of We English prints will be on show during the same period at Phos cultural centre in Torino, Italy. For details visit their website here.
We English and a selection of prints from Pierdom are currently being exhibited at 4RT Contemporary in Lausanne, Switzerland.