I have been selected by Stephen Doherty to participate in the ING Discerning Eye Exhibition this November at the Mall Galleries, London.
The Discerning Eye annual exhibition is a show of small works independently selected by six prominent figures from different areas of the art world: two artists, two collectors and two critics. Work is selected from open submission and from artists invited by the individual selectors. Each selector’s section is hung separately giving the impression of six small exhibitions within the whole.
Stephen Doherty is the Director of Visitor Communications for Somerset House in London where he has mounted a variety of free exhibitions. For nearly 20 years he worked for the V&A, where he managed travelling exhibitions and curated fashion performances in the Museum’s galleries.
The 2015 ING Discerning Eye Exhibition will be held at the Mall Galleries, The Mall, London SW1, and will be open to the public daily from Thursday 12 November until Sunday 22 November 2015. Entrance will be free and all works will be for sale.
I will be showing six pieces from my New Vedute series.
Back and Forth is an exhibition of ten artists who have recently passed through the IED Madrid school: five of them as students, the other half, as teachers. It is also a selection of works that reflect the world we live in, from the point of view of contemporary lens-based art. Needless to say that there are common subjects, such as landscapes and still-lives, portraits and street-life. However, all of the participating artists make use of a visual language that combines formal clarity, technical brilliance and a sound understanding of what photography is, or might be, in the second decade of the twenty-first century.
More details here: http://www.pip919.com/33/170119514.html
Curator: Moritz Neumüller
Artists:
Ricardo Cases (Spain)
Stephen Chalmers (US)
Edmund Clark (UK)
Anna Fawcus (Australia)
Jorge Fuembuena (Spain)
Vivek Manek (India)
Marta Mantyka (Poland)
Simon Roberts (UK)
Han Shuo (China)
Joan Villaplana (Spain)
The final leg of the Pierdom national exhibition tour concludes at Brighton Museum & Art Gallery this winter.
All of the works from the 2014 summer tour will come together at the Museum from 3rd October 2015 – 21st February 2016.
In addition to the photographic prints the exhibition will feature film material exploring my working process, items from the Museum’s local history archive and personal stories of seaside memories. Visitors will be invited to share their ‘pier stories’ on a display panel within the exhibition.
For more information visit the Brighton Museums website here.
The exhibition is made in collaboration with Flowers Gallery and has been made possible with the help of Arts Council England, Spectrum Photographic and Dyson Art.
In partnership with Jerwood Gallery, Flowers Gallery and Hastings Pier Charity, PhotoHastings 2015 is proud to present Simon Roberts’ iconic ‘Hastings Pier, East Sussex, 2010’ image as part of a nationwide tour of his series of works ‘Pierdom’.
To celebrate the phoenix-like re-emergence of the town’s pier, Simon’s photograph ‘Hastings Pier, East Sussex, 2010’ will be exhibited at Jerwood Gallery from July 20, to September 20, 2015.
The full series will be exhibited at Brighton Museum and Art Gallery from October 2015 to February 2016.
For more information about Jerwood Gallery click here.
The touring exhibition ‘Show Me The Money: The image of finance 1700 to the present’, which features several of my works, is now exhibiting at the People’s History Museum in Manchester until 24 January 2016.
More details here: http://www.phm.org.uk/whatson/show-me-the-money-the-image-of-finance-1700-to-the-present/
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/
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).
More details here.
The printing of National Property is sponsored by Spectrum Photographic.
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.
Somerset House, London WC2R 1LA
More details here: http://photolondon.org/gallery/flowers-gallery/
The full set of prints will be exhibited at Flowers Gallery, Cork Street from 8 July – 8 August 2015.
This spring Christie’s is delighted to present a sale of British Modern and Contemporary photography charting the modern history of the medium and celebrating some of the talented artists working today. Highlights of the sale include iconic images from the ‘Swinging Sixties’ by David Bailey, Terence Donovan and Brian Duffy as well as fashion and portrait photography of cultural and artistic stars from the past sixty years. The contemporary section of the sale is comprised of documentary and fine art photography by artists such as Simon Roberts, Lottie Davies, Esther Teichmann and Stephen Gill.
The sale will be live from 12 – 21 May and highlights on view at Christie’s King Street from 16 – 21 May.
You can view the auction here: https://onlineonly.christies.com/s/british-modern-contemporary-photography/lots/151
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.