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
People You Love (domestic version) , 2013
Oak, recycled polymer, 12 Volt LED Lights 180 x 184 cm Edition of 5. 2 sold 3 available
Poem in Lights to be Scattered in the Square Mile , 2017
Powder coated aluminium column with 12volt light inside. W 240cm x H 479cm x 30 cm Unique piece. Originally commissioned for the Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art in London.
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 (signed) - Proceeds to The Intensive Care Society charity appeal 70 x 55 cm
Butterflies now (Malevich Ghost)
Archival print on Hahnemühle German Etching paper (signed) 70 x 50 cm
Oscar Night Poem (The Flood) , 2013
Oak, recycled polymer, 12 Volt LED Lights 180 x 184 cm Edition 3 of 3
The City is wilder print
Unframed Print archival inkjet on Hahnemühle etching paper (signed) 80 x 38.5 cm
The Sea has no Name for America (fire poem Bombay Beach Biennale) , 2018
Archival print on Hahnemühle German etching paper. 72.5 cm x 50cm Signed and numbered edition of 100 prints
Whenever You See The Sun
Unframed Print archival inkjet on Hahnemühle etching paper 100 x 70 cm or 71.5 x 50 cm
Great Fosters Fire Fire Poem
Unframed Print archival inkjet on Hahnemühle etching paper 100 x 70 cm or 50 x 70 cm
