Dai Roberts | |
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| Nationality | British |
| Education | Nottingham Trent University, Chelsea college of art |
| Known for | Conceptual art, installation art |
| Notable work | 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 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 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 artist Jon Burgerman [1]and Ellie Harrison. He then went on to complete his Postgraduate Diploma and MA at Chelsea College of Art, London.