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.