Thursday 18 November 7pm via Zoom
Introduction to Roelof Bakker:
Tonight’s guest moved to the UK from the Netherlands in 1984 and is at present a Cambridgeshire-based artist and publisher.
Within his projects and publications Roelof Bakker processes life experiences and events, playing with form and format, exploring issues relating to history, memory, health, identity, queerness and the environment.
His practice is experimental and he works across photography, writing, artists’ books, print, publishing, video and performance.
He is publisher of Negative Press London and books from the press are in international collections including Museum of Modern Art, New York; Wellcome Foundation, London; Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and Artists’ Book Collection, Bavarian State Library, Munich, Germany.
Bakker graduated in 2019 from Cambridge School of Art with a MA in Fine Art and his MA show ‘After the Fall’ was awarded the 2019 Cambridge Artworks Residency.
The book ‘The Spots That Never Went’ was a highly commended finalist of the 2019 Cornish Family Prize for Design and Art Publishing presented by the National Gallery of Victoria, Australia.
Roelof’s website is: https://rbakker.com/