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Robert Montgomery

TEXT ART | PAINTING | LIGHT ART | PUBLIC ART

Robert Montgomery is a globally recognised and highly regarded artist, following a tradition of conceptual art and standing out by bringing a poetic voice to the discourse of text art. Robert is represented by MTArt Agency. His work “The People You Love Become Ghosts Inside of You ” took the internet by storm, being shared more than 20 million times.

Montgomery creates billboard poems, light pieces, fire poems, woodcuts and watercolours. He was the British artist selected for Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2012, the first biennale in India. Montgomery has had solo exhibitions at venues in Europe and in Asia, including major outdoor light installations on the site of the old US Air Force base at Tempelhof. The first monograph of his work was published by Distanz, Berlin in 2015. Along with the architects, Allied Works was a shortlisted finalist for the UK National Holocaust Memorial in 2017 with the project exhibited at the V&A Museum in London. His work is in museum collections across the world and he has had solo museum shows at the Aspen Art Museum in Colorado and the Cer Modern Museum in Ankara.

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Sentinels , 2012

LED Light (12 Volts), oak and green polymer 350 x 350 cm (Edition of 5)
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Annunciation Painting (New Countries) , 2019

Acrylic and glaze on canvas 156 x 90 cm
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Annunciation Painting (Famous Gutters) , 2019

Acrylic and glaze on canvas 165 x 125 cm
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Wooden Houses on Land

Acrylic and glaze on canvas 195 x 270 cm
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Perama

Acrylic and glaze on canvas 195 x 270 cm
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One Day II , 2019

Acrylic on carved wood 97 x 97 cm (Edition of 5)
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One Day III , 2019

Acrylic on carved wood 97 x 97 cm (Edition of 5)
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Echoes of Voices , 2019

Acrylic on carved wood 97 x 97 cm (Edition of 5)
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Money is a Superstition , 2019

Archival print on Hahnemühle, German etching paper 75 x 75 cm
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Salvage Paradise , 2021

Acrylic and glaze on canvas 250 x 150 cm
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The Trees will Riot , 2019

Archival print on Hahnemühle, German etching paper 75 x 75 cm
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A Hundred Years , 2014

LED Light (12 Volts), birch wood and copper 190 x 137 cm (Edition of 5)
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Salvage Paradise , 2021

LED Light (12 Volts), recycled PVC, wood and copper 300 x 480 cm (Edition of 5)
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The Future is a Risk of Our Hearts , 2021

LED Light (12 Volts), oak and polymer 55 x 878 cm
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Poem in Lights to be Scattered in the Square Mile , 2017

LED Light (12 Volts), powder coated aluminium column
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Salvage Paradise (Belgian Cross) , 2021

LED Light (12 Volts), recycled PVC, wood and copper 210 x 145 cm (Edition of 5)
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People You Love , 2013

LED Light (12 Volts), oak and recycled polymer 180 x 184 cm (Edition of 5)
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The Trees will Riot , 2019

Ara acrylic and glaze on canvas 150 x 150 cm
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Mediterranean Flowers , 2017

Watercolour 57 x 57 cm
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STOKE WORKS number 01. poem fragments across Stoke-on-Trent for B-Arts

Archival print on Hahnemühle German Etching paper (signed) 46.5 x 70 cm 50% of profits go to support the program of B-Arts Community Art project Stoke-on-Trent
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Blue Dawn (Malevich Ghost)

Archival print on Hahnemühle, German Etching paper 70 x 55 cm (Edition of 100)
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All Palaces , 2018

Print archival inkjet on Hahnemühle etching paper 50 x 70 cm (Edition of 100); 100 x 70 (Edition of 5)
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Butterflies Now (Malevich Ghost)

Archival print on Hahnemühle, German etching paper 70 x 50 cm (Edition of 100)
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Modernism is a Psychic Love Wave , 2017

Acrylic and glaze on canvas 100 x 100 cm
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Money is a Superstition II , 2019

Acrylic and glaze on canvas 150 x 150 cm
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Money is a Superstition I , 2019

Acrylic and glaze on canvas 135 x 135 cm
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Oscar Night Poem (The Flood) , 2013

Oak, recycled polymer, 12 Volt LED Lights 180 x 184 cm (Edition of 3)
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People You Love

Archival print on Hahnemühle rag paper 80 x 120 cm (Edition of 5)
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The Beginning of Hope , 2019

Acrylic and glaze on canvas 150 x 150 cm
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All Palaces , 2018

Print archival inkjet on Hahnemühle etching paper 50 x 70 cm, (Edition of 100); 100 x 70, (Edition of 5)
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The City is Wilder

Print archival inkjet on Hahnemühle etching paper 80 x 38.5 cm (Edition of 100)
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The Sea has no Name for America , 2018

German etching paper, 72.5 x 50 cm (Edition of 100); Giclee on Hahnemühle photo rag, 162 x 109 cm (Edition of 5)
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Whenever You see the Sun , 2018

Print archival inkjet on Hahnemühle etching paper 71.5 x 50 cm (Edition of 100); 100 x 70 cm (Edition of 5)
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Istanbul , 2018

Print archival inkjet on Hahnemühle etching paper 100 x 70 cm
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To Wake Up and be like the Weather

Print archival inkjet on Hahnemühle etching paper 50 x 70 cm (Edition of 100); 100 x 70 cm, (Edition of 5)
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One Day I , 2019

Gold leaf and gold paint on carved wood 97 x 97 cm (Edition of 5)
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