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DJ Roberts

Place of birth Cheltenham SPA, UK
Country of residence United Kingdom

Roberts seeks poetry and adventure in the most unassuming elements of daily life. In his paintings abandoned factories, dwellings, industrial units, deserted stadiums and parks shrouded in the ordinariness of the everyday, are rediscovered and transformed into enigmatic images. Quick sketches of places and objects- like consumables dispensed through vending machines- discover possibility and intrigue in everyday things and unearth their psychological power. Memories of growing up at the RAF base and fascination with the wasteland glamour of film noir are major influences in his work.

Solo exhibitions

2007
“Half-Built Edges”, Lounge/Monika Bobinska, London
2006
“Rosebery Gardens”, Lounge Art Project Space, London Art Fair
2005
“Point Blank”, Lounge, London
2004
“Another Such Place”, Lounge, London
2003
“What Is It About The Place”, Lounge (home), London

Selected group exhibitions

2007
“Aqua Art Miami”, Lounge/Aqua, Miami
“Year 07”, Lounge at County Hall, London
“Disposable Fetish”, The Nunnery, London
“Driven”, Fieldgate Gallery, London
2006
“42”, Three Colts Gallery, London
“Scope London”, Trumans Brewery, London
“Sensuous Panorama”, Lounge, London/touring to SEO Gallery, Seoul
“Drip Grot”, Contemporary Art Projects, London
2005
“real strange”, Lounge, London
“Selections from the Collection”, Contemporary Art Projects, London
“Mostyn 15”, Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno, Wales
2004
“Moral Plinth”, Beaconsfield, London
“Painting is Dead, Long Live Painting – Contemporary British Painting Part 1”
(selected by Gary Hume), Hastings Museum and Art Gallery, Hastings
“The Postcard Show”, The Memorial Gallery, Yale College, Wrexham, Wales
2003
“Aperitif”, The Centre of Attention, London
“Fax Project”, Christian Boltanski, Independence, South London Gallery, London
“Jerwood Drawing Prize 2003”, Jerwood Space, London/touring
“Mostyn 13”, Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno, Wales
2002
“The Library of Unwritten Books”, curated byCaroline Jupp/Sam Brown, Pump House Gallery, London/touring
“London – Bulgaria”, State Gallery & Romfeia Gallery, Plovdiv, Bulgaria/London College of Printing, London
“Witness”, curated by Ann-Marie LeQuesne, Central Saint Martins, London
2001
“Shoot”, curated by Ann-Marie LeQuesne, Tate Britain, London
“BBQ”, site-specific project, Berlin

Exhibitions Start Your Collection 2008!, 01.Aug - 21.Sep.08, Contemporary Art Projects, '00 Nature Part 1, 10.Apr - 15.May.08, Contemporary Art Projects, Start Your Collection 2007!, 01.Aug - 30.Sep.07, Contemporary Art Projects, DRIVEN, 30.Jun - 29.Jul.07, Fieldgate Gallery, New drawings, 20.Apr - 06.May.07, Monika Bobinska, Sensuous panorama, 08.Sep - 24.Sep.06, Monika Bobinska, Summer exhibition 2006, 17.Aug - 03.Sep.06, Contemporary Art Projects, Fosterart Summer Exhibition 2005, 06.Jul - 10.Sep.05, Contemporary Art Projects

Publications Lounge - Sensuous Panorama, 2006

Links Monika Bobinska


www.showcomplex.com/roberts, www.monikabobinska.com

 

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