Bobby Sayers

performance - public space - sculpture - social - video

Bobby Sayers (UK) is an artist, poet, curator and producer based in Rotterdam, NL, with an MFA from the Piet Zwart Institute. He is a socially engaged artist using performance, video and sculpture that extends beyond the gallery - with current focus on ideas of identity, belonging and 'home'. Often drawing from hidden stories and histories, depicting struggles and transformations, that show another present is possible.

Sayers has exhibited internationally and established residencies / public arts projects across the UK. In 2014 he worked for a major political campaigns organization as a web designer and developer in London and in 2016 he was commissioned to develop a digital education scheme across 7 Libraries in Scotland. In 2019 he joined Jeanneworks Studio as Arts Producer, working on 'Training (s) for the Not-Yet' exhibition and program at BAK, Utrecht and is now also currently an Associate Lecturer in Fine Art at Derby University, UK.


We Find Each Other, Under the Oak Tree, 2022 - Installation as part of 'We Find Each Other, Under the Oak Tree' exhibition at Growing Space Wielewaal
The Homeless Troubadour, 2019 - Performance across various locations in Rotterdam as part of 'Midnight Sunburn' exhibition at Het Nieuwe Instituut
The Homeless Troubadour, 2019 - installation as part of 'Midnight Sunburn' Exhibition at Het Nieuwe Institute, Netherlands
The Faceless Enemy of Me, Sits in the Squares, 2018 - textile, gold chrome heat foil installation and site for a joining performance as part of Glasgow International Festival 2018
The Faceless Enemy of Me, Sits in the Squares, 2018 - video documentation of performance 17minutes - performed as part of Glasgow International Festival 2018
Don’t Stop, Never Give Up, 2017 - Performance as part of 'So What Do You Do?' exhibition at Lust and the Apple, Scotland
Watching You Get Crushed By Work, 2017 - cast bronze -'So What Do You Do?' exhibition at Lust and the Apple, Scotland
Leave the Gallery, 2016 - installation view of virtual reality and sculptural artworks
Point of Movement, 2017 - video 55seconds
We Are All Kings and Queens, 2015 - acrylic plastic - part of 'Lifted From the Depths of Utility' exhibition at WASPS, Scotland