Dai Roberts

Dai Roberts
Nationality	British
Field	Conceptual art, installation art
Training	Nottingham Trent University, Chelsea College of Art
Works	IAO, UNIT, Untitled as Yet I can not believe we are having this talk again Mr Roberts
Awards	Marmite Painting Prize - winner 2008

Dai Roberts is a contemporary British Sculptor print and installation artist.

Roberts work IAO won him the 2008 Marmite painting prize, the prize was judged by Michele Fletcher, Liz Neal and Millie Thompson formally of BANK (art collective).

In 2011, Roberts was chosen by Rise Art's (www.riseart.com) curators as a Select Artist. The Artist released two screen prints with Rise Art from his UNIT Print series including UNIT Print #14 and UNIT Print #25 in editions of 35.

In 2009 Roberts was selected for the Jerwood Drawing Prize. In 2006 Roberts formed the 'Noon Day Demons' with fellow artists, Sophie Baker, Matthew Carver, Oliver Perkins and Simon Rattigan. A collaborative drawing project, The Noon Day Demons state "the group came into being with the intention of exploring collective unconscious and uniqueness through the medium of drawing. The spirit of the demons collaboration is one of interference and distraction from the discipline of individual practice".

In 2005 Roberts Attended the Rojaraku Spatial Art Laboratory in the town of Roja within the Talsi District of Latvia. In 2004 Roberts attended the Braziers International Artists Workshop one of the Triangle Arts Trust workshops.

Roberts studied at Nottingham Trent University between 1999–2002 and graduated with artist James Robert Ford and curator Helen Jones, and a year after the artists Jon Burgerman and Ellie Harrison. He then went on to complete his Postgraduate Diploma and MA at Chelsea College of Art, London.

References

• The Marmite Painting Prize
• Braziers International Artists Workshop
• Rojaraku Spatial Art Laboratory
• Noon Day Demons
• The Rise Art Website, where the artist has prints for sale

External links

• Dai Roberts' official website
• - Dai Roberts official page on Rise Art

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