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Keith Roberts, Study for Ghost (2018), paint, chalk and collage on canvas [Detail]
Keith Roberts is both a sculptor and a painter.
He studied fine art at Newcastle upon Tyne Polytechnic and then at the Royal College of Art in London. He was awarded a place at the Delfina Studio Trust and in 2005 an Abbey Fellowship to study at the British School at Rome, an intensely rewarding experience that continues to inform his work.
In 2018 Roberts presented Tallyman, a large exhibition that responded to the chaos and upheaval that ensues when fearful populations are pushed from their own lands, and to tally the absences and silence that follow them.
Working through sculpture and painting, Keith Roberts presents artwork which is deliberately slow to form in the mind of the viewer. His visual language is reductive but pushed towards the poetic.
Selected Works
Keith Roberts
Das Spiel, 2021
Acrylic on paper, 64 x 43 cm
Keith Roberts
Study for Ascension I, 2021
Acrylic, oil, and collage on paper, 83.5 x 59 cm
Keith Roberts
Study for Ascension II, 2021
Acrylic, oil, and collage on paper, 83.5 x 59 cm
Keith Roberts
Balloon, 2021
Oil on canvas, 55 x 45 cm
Keith Roberts
Ascension Study I, 2021
Oil and mixed media on canvas, 80 x 60 cm
Keith Roberts
Ascension Study II, 2021
Oil and mixed media on canvas, 80 x 60 cm
Keith Roberts
Ascension Study III, 2021
Oil and mixed media on canvas, 80 x 60 cm
Keith Roberts
Ascension Study IV, 2021
Oil and mixed media on canvas, 82 x 60 cm
Keith Roberts
Ascension Study V, 2021
Oil and mixed media on canvas, 80 x 60 cm
Keith Roberts
Ascension Study VI, 2021
Oil and mixed media on canvas, 80 x 60 cm
Keith Roberts
Study for Scintilla 1, 2021
Oil and acrylic on paper
59.5 x 42 cm, 72 x 52 cm (framed)
Keith Roberts
Study for Scintilla 2, 2021
Oil and acrylic on paper
59.5 x 42 cm, 72 x 52 cm (framed)
Keith Roberts
Study for Perfect Nude II, 2012
Acrylic on canvas, 80.2 x 60.2 cm
Keith Roberts
My Tongue Now Sleeping, 2021
150 x 240 cm
Keith Roberts
Split Window, 2020
Plaster and paint, 45 x 25 x 5 cm
Keith Roberts
Scintilla, 2021
Plaster, wire, and acrylic paint, Dimensions variable
Keith Roberts
Scintilla Individual I, 2021
Plaster, wire, and acrylic paint, Dimensions variable
Keith Roberts
Event Horizon 6, 2018
Acrylic on canvas, 200 x 145 cm
Keith Roberts
Wash Horizon, 2014
Acrylic on paper, 73 x 103 cm
Keith Roberts
Study for Ghost, 2017
Paint, chalk and collage on canvas, 112 x 152.5 cm
Keith Roberts
Scintilla Study on Paper III, 2021
Paper bag, and paint, 30 x 30 cm
Keith Roberts
Scintilla Study on Paper IV, 2021
Paper bag, and paint, 30 x 30 cm
Keith Roberts
Scintilla Study on Paper V, 2021
Paper bag, and paint, 30 x 30 cm
Keith Roberts
Scintilla Study on Paper VI, 2021
Paper bag, and paint, 30 x 30 cm
Exhibition History Highlights
2023 - ‘AFTER BEFORE’, No 20 Arts, London, UK
2022 - ‘Hexham Abbey’, Northumberland, Hexham, UK
- ‘Famish Spirit’, Dory Gallery, Llangollen, North Wales
2021 - ‘BRULAT | PULIDO | ROBERTS’, No 20 Arts, London, UK
2020 - ‘SUMMER SHOW 2020’, No 20 Arts, London, UK
2019 - ‘BODIES: SELF & SEX’, No 20 Arts, London, UK
- 'Cheeseburn Sculpture Gardens, Northumberland, UK
- ‘Other People’, Milton Gallery, St Paul’s School, London, UK
- ‘LANDSCAPES’, No 20 Arts, London, UK
2018 - ‘TALLYMAN’, No 20 Arts, London, UK
2017 - ‘War in the Sunshine’, Estorick Collection, London, UK
- ‘Calmington Road Memorial’, Burgess Park, London, UK
- Zeppelin Festival, Passmore Edwards Library, London, UK
2016 - ‘Distant Voices’, Sir Hillier Gardens, Hampshire, UK
- ‘Distant Voices II’, Braziers Park House, Oxfordshire, UK
Press Releases
AFTER BEFORE - Judith Burrows, Jo Dennis, Tom de Freston, Simon Kidd, Arthur Lanyon, Max Maxwell, Jhonatan Pulido, Keith Roberts
11 January - 25 March 2023
BRULAT | PULIDO | ROBERTS - Ruben Brulat, Jhonatan Pulido, Keith Roberts1 July - 5 September 2021
SUMMER SHOW - Arthur Lanyon, Augustine Carr, Jhonatan Pulido, Jim Threapleton, Keith Roberts, Max Maxwell, Nick de León, Paolo Staccioli, Rosie Snell, Shaun Fraser, Steve Caplin
23 July - 08 September 2020
BODIES: SELF & SEX - Steve Caplin, Eric Ceccarini, Karim Hamid, Ellie Howitt, Camilla Hanney, Anish Kapoor, Lucy Neish, Lydia Pettit, Keith Roberts, James Tailor, Alison Watt, Traditional African Art
22 November 2019 - 05 January 2020
LANDSCAPES - Sarah Chalmers, Rosie Snell, Max Maxwell, Andrew Vass, Neil Raitt, Elaine Watt, Keith Roberts, Katsutoshi Yuasa
1 August - 1 September 2019
No 20 at Galeria Carles Taché - Harry Morgan, Shaun Fraser, Polly Johnston, Keith Roberts, Max Maxwell
13 July - 21 September 2018
TALLYMAN - Keith Roberts
28 February - 08 April 2018
Publications
AFTER BEFORE
Exhibition catalogue
22 pages - Fully illustrated in colour,
5.8 x 8.3 inches (14.8 x 21 cm)
Click here to download a pdf version of the catalogue, or please contact the gallery at info@no20arts.com to enquire about a paper copy.
BRULAT | PULIDO | ROBERTS
Exhibition catalogue
Fully illustrated in colour,
5.8 x 8.3 inches (14.8 x 21 cm)
Click here to download a pdf version of the catalogue, or please contact the gallery at info@no20arts.com to enquire about a paper copy.
SUMMER SHOW 2020
Exhibition catalogue
32 pages - Fully illustrated in colour,
5.8 x 8.3 inches (14.8 x 21 cm)
Click here to download a pdf version of the catalogue, or please contact the gallery at info@no20arts.com to enquire about a paper copy.
BODIES: SELF & SEX
Exhibition catalogue
32 pages - Fully illustrated in colour
5.8 x 8.3 inches (14.8 x 21 cm)
Click here to download a pdf version of the catalogue, or please contact the gallery at info@no20arts.com to enquire about a paper copy.
LANDSCAPES
Exhibition catalogue
32 pages - Fully illustrated in colour
5.8 x 8.3 inches (14.8 x 21 cm)
Click here to download a pdf version of the catalogue, or please contact the gallery at info@no20arts.com to enquire about a paper copy.
TALLYMAN | Keith Roberts
Exhibition catalogue
17 pages - Fully illustrated in colour
5.8 x 8.3 inches (14.8 x 21 cm)
Click here to download a pdf version of the catalogue, or please contact the gallery at info@no20arts.com to enquire about a paper copy.
Keith Roberts, Scintilla (2021), plaster, wire, and acrylic paint [Detail]