Simon Roberts (b.1974) is one of the most acclaimed contemporary photographic artists working in the UK today. His practice is principally photography based, but also encompasses video, text and installation work, which together, interrogate our notions of what landscape is and how it is depicted, utilised, commodified and interpreted.
Roberts has exhibited widely and his photographs reside in major public and private collections, including the George Eastman House, Deutsche Börse Art Collection and V&A Museum. He has been recognised with numerous awards including an Honorary Fellowship to the Royal Photographic Society, the Vic Odden Award and grants from the John Kobal Foundation. In 2010 he was selected as the British Election Artist by the UK Government.
He is the author of several critically acclaimed monographs including ‘Motherland’ (2007), ‘We English’ (2009), ‘Pierdom’ (2013) and ‘Merrie Albion - Landscape Studies of a Small Island’ (2017), whilst his work has been profiled and published widely including in the New Yorker, Granta, National Geographic, ArtForum, Wallpaper, amongst others.
Website: www.simoncroberts.com