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.
Selected
artworks
Annunciation Painting (Enemies of the Icebergs and the Stars) , 2019
Acrylic and glaze on canvas 190 x 120 cm
Salvage Paradise , 2021
LED Light (12 Volts), recycled PVC, wood and copper 300 x 480 cm (Edition of 5)
Poem in Lights to be Scattered in the Square Mile , 2017
LED Light (12 Volts), powder coated aluminium column
Salvage Paradise (Belgian Cross) , 2021
LED Light (12 Volts), recycled PVC, wood and copper 210 x 145 cm (Edition of 5)
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
Blue Dawn (Malevich Ghost)
Archival print on Hahnemühle, German Etching paper 70 x 55 cm (Edition of 100)
All Palaces , 2018
Print archival inkjet on Hahnemühle etching paper 50 x 70 cm (Edition of 100); 100 x 70 (Edition of 5)
Butterflies Now (Malevich Ghost)
Archival print on Hahnemühle, German etching paper 70 x 50 cm (Edition of 100)
Oscar Night Poem (The Flood) , 2013
Oak, recycled polymer, 12 Volt LED Lights 180 x 184 cm (Edition of 3)
All Palaces , 2018
Print archival inkjet on Hahnemühle etching paper 50 x 70 cm, (Edition of 100); 100 x 70, (Edition of 5)
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)
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)
