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Artist

Simon Roberts

Simon
Photograph by Sandra Mickiewicz

Simon Roberts is a contemporary photographic artist. His practice is primarily photography based, but also incorporates video, text and installation work. Roberts interrogates notions of what landscape is and how it is depicted, utilised, commodified and interpreted.

He has exhibited widely, and his photographs are held in major public and private collections including: the V&A Musuem, Deutsche Boerse Art Collection and the National Maritime Museum. In 2010 Roberts was selected as the official British Election Artist and has been the recipient of several awards including an Honorary Fellowship to the Royal Photographic Society, the Vic Odden prize and grants from Arts Council England and the John Kobal Foundation.

Roberts is the author of several critically acclaimed monographs including; Motherland (Chris Boot, 2007), We English (Chris Boot, 2009), Pierdom (Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2013), and Merrie Albion (Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2017). His work has also been profiled and published widely including in the New Yorker, Granta, National Geographic, ArtForum and Wallpaper amongst others.