Bob and Roberta Smith: 'I AM A LIVING SIGN' The Bob and Roberta Smith Diaries
Past exhibition
Overview
Installation image at Hales Gallery, London
Hales Gallery is pleased to present I AM A LIVING SIGN, The Bob and Roberta Smith Diaries. The show is their second at the gallery and brings together two recent strands of the artists work; the Diary Pages and the bronze Thought Examination sculptures.
The extraordinary diary pages are painted on large wooden panels and line the gallery's walls from floor to ceiling. Each page is created in Bob and Roberta Smith's unique style that celebrates the vernacular skills of jobbing signwriters.
Works
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Installation image at Hales Gallery, London -
4 February 1984, I had tickets to see the Smiths, 2007, signwriters paint on board, 230 x 358 cm
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15 March 1984, I went to Russia when I was a student, 2007, signwriters paint on board, 260 x 273.8 cm
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17 May 2007, the results of my brain scan, 2007, signwriter's paint on board, 250 x 91 cm
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4 February 2008, all you do is paint the first thing that comes into your head on bits of old floorboard, 2008, Signwriters paint on board with painbrushes, 219.9 x 239 cms
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5th September 1995, my sister says it's ok. We can go, 2008, signwriters paint on board, 299 x 239 cm
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Thought Examination, Deng Xiao Ping, 2008, cold painted bronze and painted wood, 214 x 65 x 91 cm
