KAUNAS PHOTO is the longest-running annual photo art festival in the Baltic States.
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/
Brighton Media Centre Gallery, 15 – 17 Middle Street, BN1
Runs: 03–09 Oct
Open: Mon-Sun 10:30-17:30
Photo: Alexanderplatz © Allan Grainger
Photo: Installation of ‘Eastbourne Pier, East Sussex, 2011’, Towner Gallery, September 2014
My Eastbourne Pier print, recently acquired by Towner Gallery, is part of their new group exhibition Land and Sea.
Land and Sea: A selection of new acquisitions and existing works from the permanent collection. The display will tie in with Twixt Two Worlds and will focus on works that use film and photography in their depiction of sea and landscapes.
This display will include the first showing of our new acquisition by Swiss artist Uriel Orlow, his installation work The Short and the Long of It (2010). We will also be showing our newest acquisition of five works by British artist Matthew Miller and Eastbourne Pier (2011) by Simon Roberts.
This group exhibition featuring a series of my works from Let This Be A Sign, is now touring. The first venue is John Hansard Gallery in Southampton.
Show Me The Money: The Image of Finance 1700 to the Present poses the question, what does money really stand for, and how can ‘the market’ and the world of high finance be made visible? The exhibition charts how the financial world has been imagined in art, illustration, photography and other visual media over the last three centuries in Britain and the United States, and asks how artists have tussled with the intangible nature of money, from the South Sea Bubble of the eighteenth century to the global financial crisis of 2008.
The exhibition features works ranging from satirical eighteenth-century prints by William Hogarth, to newly commissioned pieces by a range of contemporary artists in an array of media: paintings, prints, photographs and videos. Here on the south coast, the exhibition will be shown simultaneously across the John Hansard Gallery and Chawton House Library; the latter once owned by Jane Austen’s brother, himself implicated in a financial scandal of the 1810s.
It showcases many works created since the 2008 financial crash, including Molly Crabapple’s surrealist oil painting Debt and Her Debtors (2012-13), through to Goldin+Senneby’s installation Headless (2008), detailing the search for an offshore company that forms the basis for a ghost-written novel commissioned by the artists. There is a new version of Simon Roberts’ Credit Crunch Lexicon (2012), a wall-based text work that alphabetically lists words and phrases collated from political speeches, Bank of England papers, newspaper headlines and economic reports as a vehicle for political comment.
More information here.
As part of Photo Hastings I will be giving an artist talk about the work I have produced over the past decade exploring ideas of the British landscape.
October 16, 7pm, Stade Hall, Hastings
The talk is free to attend.
More information here.
We English will be on show at Kaunas Photo Festival as part of the Generation ’74 exhibition series.
11th KAUNAS PHOTO edition pleased release of prominent European photographers, who celebrate the 40 year achievements and presents the exhibition series “Generation 1974” and a photo book of the same name, which both photographers and compilers are from the same generation. In the exhibition participating 11 authors: Borut Peterlin (Slovenia), Nick Hannes (Belgium), Simon Roberts (UK), Gintaras Česonis (Lithuania), Mindaugas Kavaliauskas (Lithuania), Kirill Golovchenko (Ukraine/Germany), Vitus Saloshanka (Belarus-Germany), Tomas Pospech (Czech Republic), Przemyslaw Pokrycki (Poland), Pekka Niittyvirta (Finland), Davide Monteleone (Italy/France)
As part of Photo Shanghai, Flowers Gallery will be showing prints from Pierdom alongside work by Boomoon, Edward Burtynsky, Nadav Kander and Jason Larkin.
Stand C02
Photo Shanghai is the first international art fair dedicated to photography in China.
5-7 September 2014
Pierdom will be exhibited as part of this year’s BredaPhoto festival in the Netherlands, the theme of which is Songs from the Heart.
participating artists
Todd Hido, Hans Wilschut, Andre Bush, Gregory Halpern, Jan Rosseel, Ola Lanko, Bert Danckaert , Martijn van de Griendt, Koen Hauser, Karin Borghouts, Simon Roberts, Eelco Brand, An-Sofie Kesteleyn, Debby Huysmans, Wayne Lawrence, Wiesje Peels, Alexander Gronsky, Andrej Glusgold, Mariska van Zutven, Kris Vervaeke, Jakub Karwowski, Jos Jansen, Bryan Schutmaat, Joshua Lutz, Sven Fritz, Stephanie Roland, Tom Hunter.
curators
Reinout van den Bergh – [email protected]
Jan Schaerlackens – [email protected]
Geert van Eyck – [email protected]
To find out more, visit: http://www.bredaphoto.nl/
Songs from the Heart is all about New Romanticism. The photographers whose works are on display during BredaPhoto 2014 will deal with the following topics:
I. Romanticism as a historic and artistic movement
The romantic heritage is inherent in our way of thinking and watching. Are photographers, either in their choice of topics or artistic styles, indebted to their romantic heritage?
II. The New Romanticism
The manifestation of these romantic ideals changes constantly. But where does our fascination with, for instance, ‘the authentic’ or ‘the unique’ come from? Is it an act of escapism? A form of social resistance? Or is it maybe just a thoroughly human characteristic?
III. Real versus fake?
Why does the word ‘romantic’ have such a negative connotation? Is there a downside to our romantic inheritance? Does our striving for authenticity not simply result in greater conformism? Does our admiration of the natural world and its overwhelming power at the same time result in sentimentalism and escapism; when does our fascination for the past turn into uninspired kitsch?
Join us as Simon Roberts, whose Pierdom exhibition is now on at BlackheathBeach, discusses his photographic practice and the work he has made over the past decade exploring idea of the British landscape.
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As part of the Pierdom National Exhibition on show at Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, I will be giving an exhibition talk followed by a walking tour of Blackpool North Pier for a look back at the history of Blackpool’s famous piers with Blackpool Libraries Local & Family History Librarian, Tony Sharkey.
Free but booking is essential.
There will also be a curator’s tour by Richard Parry on Wed 23rd July, 6-7pm.
To book a place on either of the events and activities please contact us on [email protected] or 01253 478170.
More information about the exhibition and events here: http://www.grundyartgallery.com/programme/current/
The exhibition and talk is supported by Arts Council England.
My work is included in this summer group show at Print Sales, The Photographers’ Gallery, alongside prints by John Hinde, Nicholas Hughes, Mike Perry and Luke Stephenson.
More information here.