Bob and Roberta Smith

Bob & Roberta Smith fuse humour and serious politics into an egalitarian art that uses the skills of the sign writer, pop group and workshop leader to cajole his audience into a celebratory but often acerbic campaign for more art and more democracy in our society. Smith’s accessible forms and irreverent delivery allow him to deliver a galvanising message on the emancipatory and political potential of creative endeavour and the specificities of identity.

Proposal for Independent State

Bob & Roberta Smith’s project for Frome features four customized tricycles complete with public address systems broadcasting ‘field recordings’ – interviews conducted by the artist with local people about their ideas of culture combined with his attempts to persuade them to sing the historic field names of Frome.