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.
Read more here: http://flowersgallery.com/exhibitions/flowers/2015/british-figure/
WORK, REST AND PLAY: BRITISH PHOTOGRAPHY FROM THE 1960S TO TODAY
Touring Exhibition: OCT Loft, Shenzhen China
The Photographers’ Gallery, London in collaboration with The Pin Projects, Beijing OCT-LOFT, Shenzhen and with support from the British Council present Work, Rest and Play: British Photography from the 1960s to Today. Featured as part of the 2015 UK-China Year of Cultural Exchange, this will be the first touring exhibition in China solely devoted to British photography.
This exhibition presents a survey of over fifty years of British photography through the lens of documentary practices. Featuring work by some of the most significant photographers and artists of the time, it reflects photography’s growing cultural position both within the UK and on the international stage.
Work, Rest and Play features over 450 images by thirty-seven acclaimed photographers and artists working across a wide range of genres and disciplines, including photojournalism, portraiture, fashion and fine art. Arranged chronologically the exhibition explores British society through changing national characteristics, attitudes and activities over the last five decades. Multiculturalism, consumerism, political protest, post-industrialisation, national traditions, the class system and everyday life all emerge under the broader themes of Work, Rest and Play.
Working life finds expression and contrast through Philip Jones Griffiths’ photographs of Welsh miners in the 50s Anna Fox’s study of London office life in the 80s and Toby Glanville’s portraits of workers in rural Britain in the late 90s; Rest is depicted through landscapes and portraits of the British seaside from photographers including John Hinde, Fay Godwin and Simon Roberts; while Play features humour and the rise of popular culture realised in Martin Parr’s colourful chronicles as well as Derek Ridgers explorations of subcultures and Terence Donovan’s definitive images of British fashion.
Additional works included in this exhibition are by Shirley Baker, James Barnor, Cecil Beaton, Jane Bown, Vanley Burke, Jason Evans, Julian Germain, Stephen Gill, Dryden Goodwin, Tom Hunter, Harry Jacobs, Tony Ray Jones, Karen Knorr, Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen, Melanie Manchot, Linda McCartney, Spencer Murphy, Mark Neville, Nigel Shafran, Paul Seawright, David Spero, Clare Strand, Jon Tonks, Lorenzo Vitturi, Tim Walker, Patrick Ward, Tom Wood and Catherine Yass.
The exhibition will continue to tour to Beijing and Shanghai at dates to be announced.
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
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.
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.
I will be exhibiting a selection of work from Let This Be A Sign, including the Credit Crunch Lexicon, in this group show opening at the Northern Gallery of Contemporary Art in June 2014.
Show Me The Money: The Image of Finance, 1700 to present asks what does ‘the market’ look like? What does money really stand for? How can the abstractions 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. The project asks how artists have grappled with the increasingly intangible and self-referential nature of money and finance, from the South Sea Bubble of the eighteenth century to the global financial crisis of 2008. It features works ranging from satirical eighteenth-century prints by William Hogarth and James Gillray to newly commissioned works by artists Goldin+Senneby, Cornford & Cross, Immo Klink, Simon Roberts, and James O Jenkins, as well as the first UK exhibition of international artists such as Molly Crabapple. The exhibition includes an array of media: paintings, prints, photographs, videos, artefacts, and instruments of financial exchange both ‘real’ and imagined. Indeed the exhibition also charts the development of an array of financial visualisations, including stock tickers and charts, newspaper illustrations, bank adverts, and electronic trading systems.
Photograph: Brokers with hands on their faces, 2007 – 2011 (Digital collage) © Simon Roberts
Show Me The Money demonstrates that the visual culture of finance has not merely reflected prevailing attitudes to money and banking, but has been crucial in forging – and at times critiquing – the very idea of ‘the market’. The exhibition tours three distinct regions of the country, beginning at Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, close to the HQ of Northern Rock, where in an English context the financial crisis of 2008 began. It is then shown across two sites simultaneously: John Hansard Gallery, part of Southampton University, and Chawton House Library in Hampshire, which was owned by Jane Austen’s brother, himself implicated in a financial scandal of the 1810s. In 2015 the show continues to the People’s History Museum in Manchester, a national museum that houses material history from the union and co-operative movements.
The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated 164pp book, published by Manchester University Press and edited by Peter Knight, Nicky Marsh and Paul Crosthwaite. The publication provides a wider set of contexts – professional, intellectual, political, literary and artistic – that inform the exhibition. The authors examine the history and politics of representations of finance through five essays by academic experts and curators alongside five commissioned contributions by notable public commentators on finance and art. The writers include Andy Haldane, the Executive Director of Financial Stability at the Bank of England, who asks us “What do you think about when you think about a ‘market’?”
Initiated with Dr Peter Knight, Manchester University, Professor Nicky Marsh, Southampton University, Dr Paul Crosthwaite, Edinburgh University, and Dr Isabella Streffen, Manchester University with NGCA.
The website for the exhibition is now live. Find out more about the themes and content of the show by following…http://www.imageoffinance.com/
TOUR DATES
Chawton House Library in Hampshire, Friday 19th September until Saturday 22nd November 2014
John Hansard Gallery in Southampton, from Tuesday 7th October until Saturday 22nd November 2014
People’s History Museum in Manchester, from Saturday 11th July 2015 until Saturday 28th February 2016
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.