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Robert Montgomery
Robert Montgomery is a British contemporary artist well known for his work in public space and guerilla billboard poems. He makes billboard poems, light works, fire poems, woodcuts, paintings and watercolours. His work brings text art closer to the language of poetry. He represented the UK in the 2012 Kochi Biennale and the 2016 Yinchuan Biennale. His work is in museum collections across the world including the Albright Knox in New York, and the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. He has had solo museum projects at the Aspen Art Museum in Colorado, Oklahoma Contemporary in Oklahoma City, and the Cer Modern Museum in Ankara. His work is hugely popular on the internet, the piece “The People You Love Become Ghosts Inside of You” has been shared online more than 200 million times. Andy Warhol’s Interview magazine says about Montgomery, “The poems he composes suggest a steady faith that humanity can heal the ecological and emotional trauma of our times, with a lyricism that recalls poets like Philip Larkin and Sylvia Plath. Montgomery’s focus lies in broadcasting his message to a wider audience. His preferred installation format is co-opted billboards: his own text, replacing the billboards’, subverts their intended purpose of disseminating ads. Montgomery’s art has graced the cityscapes of Paris, Berlin, and London, where he is based. His first solo exhibition in New York opened last week at C24 Gallery, comprising the largest collection of his works gathered together to date. We visited Montgomery at C24 gallery while he was installing, starting the interview with a tour. Walking in the entrance with blaring words of lights ahead and on either side felt like entering a cathedral...” (Rachel Small, Interview Magazine.) Full article: www.interviewmagazine.com/art/robert-montgomery-c24-gallery www.robertmontgomery.org @robertmontgomeryghost @mocalondon_we Robert Montgomery is represented by Danysz Gallery and MT Art Agency www.danyszgallery.com www.mtart.agency |
Work list:
1. THE PEOPLE YOU LOVE, 2012 Light work installed De La Warr Pavilion 2. STRETCH BALLETIC. STOKE WORKS 05, 2019 Street works in Stoke-on-Trent curated by B-Arts 3. OSTEND MURAL, 2016 commissioned by The Crystal Ship, Ostend 4-5. THE TREES WILL RIOT, 2020 6. BLUE DAWN, 2017 Acrylic and glaze on canvas, collection of Florence Welch 7. PEACE POEM, 2018 Light work commissioned by Emergency Exit Arts (EEA) with support from Arts Council England 8. GRACE OF THE SUN, 2021 Light work at COP26 Glasgow in collaboration with Little Sun with support from Octopus Energy produced by MTArt Agency 9. MONEY IS A SUPERSTITION, 2019 Billboard work commissioned by Jack Arts to coincide with exhibition Parasol unit 10. THE SEA HAS NO NAME FOR AMERICA, 2018 Fire Poem, Bombay Beach Biennale 11. FEARLESS HAILSTONE OPTIMISM. STOKE WORKS 02, 2019 Street works in Stoke-on-Trent curated by B-Arts 12. OLD STREET BILLBOARD 3, 2019 |