Bob & Roberta Smith, in reflecting upon the design for ART IS LIKE LOVE, has shared:

“Art is like love’ because art, like love, happens between us. Anyone can fall in love and anyone can make art.”

The artist has proposed a Manhattan for the cocktail shaker ART IS LIKE LOVE. 

Bob and Roberta Smith is the pseudonym of the artist Patrick Brill (b.1963, London, UK). He studied at the University of Reading from 1981 to 1985 and Goldsmiths College (1991).

He trained as a sign painter in New York and uses text as an art form, creating colourful slogans on banners and placards that challenge elitism and advocate the importance of creativity in politics and education.

As well as hosting a radio show called Make Your Own Damn Music on Resonance FM, Bob and Roberta Smith is a writer and musician, often performing with the Ken Ardley Playboy band. In 2009, he was appointed as a Tate Trustee and he is currently Associate Professor at the Sir John Cass Faculty of Art, Architecture and Design at London Metropolitan University.

bobandrobertasmith.co.uk

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40 Years of the Future: Editions

In collaboration with Ryan Gander OBE RA (Castlefield Gallery Artist Patron), to mark Castlefield Gallery’s 40 year anniversary, we are delighted to present a new collection of limited-edition artworks.

40 Years of the Future: Editions are a limited series of beautifully engraved cocktail shakers, created with a group of celebrated, award-winning artists, who at the invitation of Ryan Gander have donated their designs in support of Castlefield Gallery.