This work by Bob and Roberta Smith RA is part of the artist's selling display We Have Only Got Each Other, currently on display in the Shenkman Bar, Keeper's House from 26 March 2024 – 23 March 2025.
“We have only got each other. Having conversations with each other is a beautiful thing. And talking in a bar about the importance of art brings us together. This is an exhibition to inspire conversations. Pairs of paintings that can talk to each other and to you. Talk about art and a let art talk to you. It takes two to view, you and art! Hello, I am blue and green and so are you?”
Bringing together older and more recent works by Bob & Roberta Smith, this selling show invites us to experience the world through contemplative art. Small panels and placards featuring the artists’ recognisable bold words are displayed alongside new paintings of Ramsgate port, where they have their studio. Each painting talks to the other across the borders of their individual edges and poetically looking out across the border of the English Channel; the works literally and non-literally talking to one another.
About Bob and Roberta Smith RA
Bob and Roberta Smith RA, one of the newest Royal Academicians, is the pseudonym of artist Patrick Brill. Born in London, he studied at the University of Reading from 1981 to 1985 and Goldsmiths College in 1991.Smith trained as a sign painter in New York and uses text as an art form, creating colourful slogans on banners and placards that...
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