Patrick Brill, also known as Bob and Roberta Smith, is a British artist renown for his art which uses typography and a poster format. Patrick Brill was born in Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom in the year 1963. His father was a professional landscape artist named Frederick Brill.
Brill attended the University of Reading where he earned a bachelors degree. The artist went on to earn a masters degree from GoldsmithsCollege.
Brill is more commonly known as Bob and Roberta Smith.
His wife, Jessica Voorsanger, is also an artist and an advocate for exposing people with learning disabilities to art.
Brill is associate professor at London Metropolitan University.
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The artist works in acrylics and printmaking. The artist has also recently been working with sculpture.
In this clip an interview with the artist:
Below we view a brief documentary from the Tate about Bob and Roberta Smith:
This artist reminds me of Stephen Powers for his use of color and text.
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