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Born: London, 1963

Bob and Roberta Smith are the invention of artist Patrick Brill. He began using pseudonyms in the late 1980s and early 1990s when he was living in New York. Increasingly critical of the commercialism of the art world and its dependency on celebrity, Brill made up five different artists, all producing different types of art, and sent slides of 'their' work to New York galleries.

His recent work in the guise of Bob and Roberta Smith is motivated by a belief in art as a force for change, a space where a parallel world can be created. In Stop It Write Now!, he invites visitors to the exhibition to post their protests about any subject into a box. On a weekly basis throughout the show, he will select some of these submissions and paint them on the gallery wall. Here Brill demonstrates his belief in the artist as facilitator and in art as a forum for conversation and free speech.