Bob and Roberta Smith

Bob and Roberta Smith is actually one man. He used to collaborate with his sister but she retrained to become a group psychiatric specialist. Bob and Roberta Smith use words painted on canvases and made into signs, written in newspapers and sung in songs to say statements about art and free expression that have influenced generation of teachers and students of arts subjects to embrace the idea that the arts are a human right. Bob and Roberta Smith collaborated in the early 1990’s with other artist musicians to create a lively art music scene with his band The Apathy Band. In

2015 Bob and Roberta Smith stood in a general election in the constituency of Michael Gove to directly confront him over his promotion of the Ebacc that has diminished the teaching of art in schools. 

Bob and Roberta Smith has shown at Moma PS1 New York, Tate’s Britain, Modern and Liverpool. In 2019 Bob and Roberta Smith had major retrospectives in La Panacee, Montpellier, curated by Nicholas Bouriaud and The Harris Museum Preston.  Bob is a Royal Academician, and was awarded an OBE in 2017. Bob believes that ‘all schools should be art schools’. 

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WORKS
Bob and Roberta Smith
Abbiamo solo bisogno gli uni degli altri
2023
paint on refrigerator door
cm 45 x 80
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Abbiamo solo bisogno gli uni degli altri, 2023

Bob and Roberta Smith
Cosa unisce le vite umane è grande e meraviglioso, cosa le divide è piccolo e meschino
2023
paint on wood
cm100 x 98 x 6
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Cosa unisce le vite umane è grande e meraviglioso, cosa le divide è piccolo e meschino, 2023

Bob and Roberta Smith
Ribelle con amore
2023
paint on wood
cm 210 x 114
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Ribelle con amore, 2023

Bob and Roberta Smith
Vai in galleria ad innamorarti
2023
paint on refrigerator door
cm 47 x 50
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Vai in galleria ad innamorarti, 2023

Bob and Roberta Smith
There is still art there is still hope
2023
paint on wood
cm 100 x 60
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There is still art there is still hope, 2023


EXHIBITION
Art is between us