Simon Roberts

Simon Roberts (b.1974) is a visual artist based in Brighton, UK. Widely recognised for his large-format, tableaux photographs of the British landscape, his practice also encompasses video, text and installation work, which together, interrogate notions of identity and belonging, and the complex relationship between history, place and culture.

He has exhibited widely and his photographs reside in major public and private collections, including the George Eastman House, Deutsche Börse Art Collection and Victoria & Albert Museum. In 2010 he was appointed the official British Election Artist by the House of Commons Works of Art Committee to produce a visual record of the General Election on behalf of the UK Parliamentary Art Collection; and in 2014 he represented Britain during the UK-Russia Year of Culture. He has been commissioned to make several large-scale public artworks and recognised with numerous awards including an Honorary Fellowship to the Royal Photographic Society, the Vic Odden Award and grants from Arts Council England and the John Kobal Foundation.

Author of several critically acclaimed monographs including Motherland (Chris Boot, 2007), We English (Chris Boot, 2009), Pierdom (Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2013) and Merrie A...

First class BA Hons degree in Human Geography, The University of Sheffield (1996)

Distinction in Photography, National Council for the Training of Journalists, Sheffield (1997)

Selected Solo Exhibitions:

Pallant House Gallery, (Chichester, UK): An Avoidable Loss, 2024
Guernsey Museum & Art Gallery, (Guernsey, UK): Between Tides, 2023
Flowers Gallery (London, UK): Beneath the Pilgrim Moon, 2022
The Container (Tokyo, Japan): The Brexshit Machine, 2020
The Art Foundation (Athens, Greece): The Brexit Lexicon, 2020
Pallant House Gallery (Chichester, UK): Inscapes, 2019
Cortona on the Move (Cortona, Italy): Inizio, 2019
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art (Japan): Sight Sacralization, 2018
Flowers Gallery (London, UK): Merrie Albion, 2018
Robert Morat Galerie (Berlin, Germany): Public Performance, 2017
Centre Photographique (Rouen, France): Normandy, 2017
FotoHof (Salzburg, Austria): Landscape Studies of a Small Island, 2017
Festival Images Vevey (Vevey, Switzerland): The Last Moment, 2016
Brighton Museum & Art Gallery (Brighton, UK): Pierdom, 2015
Verey Gallery (Eton, UK): Landscapes of Innocence and Experience, 2015
BredaPhoto (Breda, Holland): Pierdom, 2014
Multimedia Art Museum (Moscow, Russia): Landscape Studies of a Small Island, 2014
Robert Morat Galerie (Hamburg, Germany): Pierdom, 2013
Flowers Gallery (London, UK): The Election Project, 2013
Phos Fotografia (Chieri, Italy): We English, 2013
M...