The work of Robert Montgomery

Robert Montgomery states that he works "in a poetic and melancholic Post-Situationist tradition". The use of text to deliver messages of what it feels like to live now is at the heart of his practise and he is specifically known for plastering - more often then not illegally - Billboards with his poems in Cities. The text is always white on a black background with no other visuals, divorcing it from the expected spectacle of advertisement for consumerist goods that you would usually be bombarded with. This puts his highly politicised art works into an immediate setting, out of the context of the gallery and into the domain of the commuter and general public. Studying at Edinburgh College of Art he has exhibited in many a location around the world including the Embassy, Talbot Rice and Transmission Gallery. He says that his utter ambition is to pay the rent and make billboards.

Here's his website and here's a little article and chat by him on the Independent's arts section.

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