Landscapes of Innocence and Experience surveys a number of recent bodies of work by British photographic artist Simon Roberts (b. 1974). The exhibition begins with a single image from Roberts’ Motherland series, an expansive social documentary project photographed across Russia between 2004 and 2005. This image marks a catalyst for Roberts and leads to over a selection of photographs taken in Britain since Roberts returned there with a renewed interest in photographing his homeland.
The exhibition weaves through various series including We English, The Election Project, XXX Olympiad and Pierdom. Brought together in the UK for the first time, the works demonstrate a sustained photographic investigation by Roberts into the terrain and shorelines of his native country. The works picture the social practices and customs, cultural landmarks, economic and political theatre that define the space as uniquely British.
Alongside his photographs, Roberts is also screening a 3-channel video which records a journey he made around the country during the official four-week period of campaigning for the 2010 General Election. The film goes in search of incidental spaces and moments across Britain’s urban and rural landscapes set against a soundtrack of ambient noise and radio news bulletins. Juxtaposed alongside the large format landscape photographs, When did you last cry? explores the shifting perceptions of the country’s economic and political geography, with its many anxieties; a rediscovery and revaluation of where we find ourselves today.
The exhibition is realised in collaboration with Flowers Gallery, London.
The Verey Gallery, funded by Sir David and Emma Verey, opened in 2011 as a space to exhibit the remarkable collection of art, manuscripts, rare books, silver, photography and antiquities built up over 500 years by Eton College. It also enables the School to make links with the art world through temporary exhibitions curated by visiting curators and showing loaned art works.
If you have any queries, or would like to visit the gallery please contact Charlotte Villiers, Exhibitions & Outreach Coordinator.
Tel: 01753 671123 Email: [email protected]
The exhibition ‘Human Nature: 15 years of Art Collection Deutsche Börse’ opens at NRW-Forum on 30 January until 19 April 2015 and includes prints from my Motherland series.
“Human Nature” shows artistic positions that deal with the relationship between man and nature. These are presented photographically in a diversity of landscapes. The presentation of nature far away from civilization and the man-made changes in landscape are discussed, as well as the adaptation of man to his self-created environment.
with works by
Paul Almasy
Sonja Braas
Mike Brodie
Joachim Brohm
Balthasar Burkhard
Gerd Danigel
Bruce Davidson
John Davies
Geert Goiris
Evelyn Hofer
Axel Hütte
Martin Liebscher
Vivian Maier
Richard Mosse
Jürgen Nefzger
Simon Norfolk
Regine Petersen
Simon Roberts
Sebastiao Salgado
Pentti Sammallahti
Jörg Sasse
Alfred Seiland
Gunnar Smoliansky
Joel Sternfeld
Image: ‘Walkabout For Our Musketeers, Lausanne, 2014’ pigment print, 50 x 60 cm
Galerie Heinzer Reszler will be exhibiting prints from my series, The Last Moment.
Prints from the series will also be available to view in their booth at Art Geneve from 29/01 – 01/02/2015. Details here: http://artgeneve.ch/en
I’m being castaway for Desert Island Pics with Stephen Bull at the London Art Fair.
Please join us on Saturday 24 January, 11am-12pm.
‘Desert Island Pics’ is an ongoing series of Photoworks talks loosely based on the format of BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs. At this talk, Simon will reveal his choice of eight photographs and discuss how they reflect his life and career with regular Desert Island Pics host Stephen Bull. Previous Desert Island Pics castaways include Martin Parr, Alison Jackson and Jeremy Deller.
Entry is free to LAF15 ticket holders, but booking for this event is essential.
Special discount London Art Fair ticket offer: Save 30% on the advance purchase price by using the discount code LAF837 before 31 December 2014.
Find out more and book tickets here.
You can listen to previous Desert Island Pics talks on Photoworks website here.
I will also be exhibiting work at the LAF15 with Flowers Gallery on stand 3. Details here.
A selection of prints from We English are included in this new group show at Klompching Gallery, New York.
Also included are works by John Blakemore, Tessa Bunney, Odette England, Doug Keyes, Brad Moore, Lisa M. Robinson and Helen Sear.
I will be participating in the 40th Anniversary edition of the annual Small is Beautiful exhibition, which will take place at Flowers Gallery, New York for the first time this year. The show challenges contemporary artists working in all media to produce works with a fixed economy of scale, each piece measuring no larger than 9 x 7 inches. On display will be over 140 works by an international roster of gallery artists and invited guests.
NOVEMBER 20, 2014 – JANUARY 10, 2015
OPENING RECEPTION THURSDAY NOVEMBER 20, 6-8PM
As part of my Pierdom national exhibition, I’ll be giving an artist talk at Towner Gallery in Eastbourne on 28th October.
Book at the desk, by phone or online.
01323 434670
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Prints from my Motherland series are included in the exhibition ‘Human Nature: 15 years of Art Collection Deutsche Börse’ (see installation shot above).
This year Deutsche Börse will have been collecting contemporary photography for fifteen years. For this reason we will show a big anniversary exhibition in our premises from 1 October. The exhibition “Human Nature. 15 years of Art Collection Deutsche Börse ” will present around 125 works by 24 artists of the collection.
The show will tour to the NRW-Forum in Düsseldorf end of January and thus be shown in a great public exhibition space as part of the Düsseldorf Photo Weekend and until April.
For more information about the collection, visit: https://www.facebook.com/ArtCollectionDeutscheBoerse
In addition to the permanent exhibition of the Art Collection Deutsche Börse, special events on the subject of photography are hosted regularly at the company’s headquarters, The Cube, in Eschborn, Germany.
Photo: Simon Roberts’ Studio, APEC
Join Simon Roberts, Susan Diab, Chris Stevens and Michael O’Connell for a tour of APEC (Art Producing Economic Community) an artist-run studio complex. Over coffee and croissants, artists will discuss their relationship with photography, how they use their studio space for creation and collaboration, and explain how APEC operates as a wider collective.
You can book tickets here: http://bpb.org.uk/2014/event/apec-artist-studio-tour/
APEC (Art Producing Economic Community) is an artist-run studio complex, operating on a not for profit basis, currently providing space for 18 non-commercial artists. The studios were set up in 2003 to provide secure, affordable workspace specifically for fine artists – those whose practices are the most financially vulnerable – in an area of the country where suitable premises are scarce and becoming increasingly expensive. Conversion of the unit (2852 sq ft) to artists’ studios was made possible by support from Arts Council England, a loan from Cooperative finance and the generosity of the founder members in giving freely of their unpaid time and labour. Since our founding we have continued to run as a cooperative venture, have become entirely self-financing and all of the studios have remained constantly occupied. APEC maintains a diverse, dynamic identity, with a shared belief in seriousness of intent and delight in artistic diversity. By maintaining a mix of established professionals with recent graduates and the less experienced, all of us benefit, the more established artists offering their support and experience, while the input of newer members ensures a freshness and generosity of spirit that keeps us open to new ideas.
Photo: © Gabrielle Farah from the series ‘Bringing Home The War’
A Sense of Place is an exhibition that brings together the work of two photographers, Gabrielle Farah & Allan Grainger, who use historical and contemporary means to give voice to some issues facing photography today. Both photographers use allegory and metaphor to subvert the idea of the ‘Decisive Moment’.
Simon Roberts will be conducting an In-Conversation with Gabrielle & Allan on Saturday 4 October at 2.30pm
More details here: http://www.mediacentre.org/events/
