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Roelof Bakker, CV

Lives Hastings, UK


Education
2019 MA (Distinction) Fine Art, Cambridge School of Art, Cambridge, UK. MA show awarded 2019 Cambridge Artspace Residency

Artist’s books/artist’s multiples
2025 Plastic Particles In My Testicles – Negative Press London
2024 Eighteen Years Old – Negative Press London
2023 Some Queer Animals – Negative Press London
2022 The Love That I Need – Negative Press London
2022 The Night Diana Died/I Remember A Time (Princess) – Negative Press London
2020 Unprocessed – Negative Press London
2018 The Spots That Never Went– Negative Press London
2017 Printed Lies – Negative Press London
2016 How Many Hopes Lie Buried Here Mother – Negative Press London
2014 Strong Room, Roelof Bakker and Jane Wildgoose – Negative Press London
2012 Still – Negative Press London

Solo exhibitions
2022 Negative Press London, 10 Years – Bower Ashton Library, Bristol
2021 The Spots That Never Went – Photofusion, London
2020 The Spots That Never Went – Cambridge Artspace, Cambridge
2019 After The Fall – Ruskin Gallery, Cambridge
2016 How Many Hopes Lie Buried Here Mother – Dutch Centre, London
2012 Still – Foyles, London
2010 Still – Hornsey Town Hall, London

Group exhibitions, events, readings, talks
2025
Some Queer Animals – Near Dwellers As In Dwellers, Bothkinds Project Space, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 1 October to 30 November
Negative Press Artists’ Books Reading Room – Crouch End Open Studios, London, 7-8 June
The Missing – Gathered, The Mint House, Pevensey, East Sussex, 2-5 May 2025
Some Queer Animals – Foto Frome 2025, Photobooks 2025
Immigrantiebomen – United Artists for World Book Night 2025, Bower Ashton Library, UWE, Bristol
Negative Press London – Photofusion Photobook Fair 2025, Photofusion, London
Some Queer Animals – Queering Connections: Glitchy Kinship, Winchester Gallery, Winchester, 31 January 2025-15 March 2025

2024
Negative Press London – Brighton Artists Book Fair, Phoenix Art Space, Brighton
Negative Press London – Small Publishers Fair, Conway Hall, London
Negative Press London – BOP2024, Paintworks/Martin Parr Foundation, Bristol
Some Queer Animals – Esposiçao Photobook Award Exhibition, Encontros Da Imagem 2024, Braga, Portugal
Some Queer Animals – Arles 2024 Book Awards Exhibition, La Mécanique Génerale, Arles, France, 1 July-29 September 2024
Some Queer Animals – B is for Book, Frankenstein Press, Bristol
Negative Press London – Inventory Art Book Fair, Cromwell Place, London, 7-9 June
Symbiosis II – London Alternative Photography Collective, Four Corners Gallery,  London
Still Time: From Art to Books and Back Again – Cambridge Artspace, Cambridge
Pathways – exchange with artist Noor Ali Chagani, Cambridge Artspace, Cambridge
Symbiosis – London Alternative Photography Collective, 100 Years Gallery, London E8
Shutter Hub Open 23/24 – ARB, Cambridge

2023
Negative Press London – Small Publishers Fair, Conway Hall, London
Too Utterly Too Too – Institute of Engineering, Cambridge University, Cambridge
The Spots That Never Went – The Performing Photobook, Format Festival, Derby

2022
The Love That I Need – We Are Here, Cambridge Artspace, Cambridge
Regulars at The Queer Hut – Alternative Processes, online Pride exhibition curated by Caleb X Cole 
Unknown Man Walking – Ghosts in the Machine, Bower Ashton Library, Bristol. Also Hong Kong Design Institute Library, Hong Kong 
Bristol Artist’s Book Event, UWE Campus, Bristol
Performance with Darryl Peers at Stormy Weather/Derek Jarman Protest! symposium – Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester
2021
Artist’s book talk with Kim Shaw, Tamsin Green and Wendy Aldiss – Photofusion
Artist’s talk – London Independent Photography
Unprocessed – Prima Facia, curated by Amir Brito Cador, Bower Ashton Library, Bristol
The Other Side of the Hedge — Bristol Artists Book Event, The Lost Weekend, Arnolfini, Bristol  
Unprocessed – Why Publish?, Bower Ashton Library, UWE, Bristol

2020-2010
2020 These Pleasures a Wayward Distraction – Reality and its Disorders, Espacio Gallery, London
2020 Fragile – Should we have stayed at home and thought of here?, World Book Night 2020, United Artists, online exhibition
2020 Artquest peer group – Photographer’s Gallery London, facilitator Daniel Regan 
2019 Not Knowing You, Not Knowing Me – Salon 19, Photofusion, London
2019 The Spots That Never Went – Print: A Catalyst for Social Change, Bury Art Museum, Bury
2019 Night Walks – London Independent Photography, analogue slideshow and talk, London
2019 Negative Press London – Small Publishers Fair, Conway Hall, London
2018 How Many Hopes Lie Buried Here Mother – King’s College, London, talk at Dialogues of the Dead,
2017 Projected Lies – The Republic of Brexitopia, Espacio Gallery, London 
2017 Yellow – Polari Literary Salon, Southbank Centre, London
2014 Strong Room – Polycopies Photobook Fair, Paris Photo
2014 Strong Room – F Book Show, 72 Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2013 Selector – 25th Annual Members Exhibition, London Independent Photography with Francis Hodgson and Colin Pantall
2012 Leap – Oooooh Art, Bruce Castle Museum, London
2012 Wanderlust – Marginal Arts Festival, Roanoke, Virginia, US
2011 Wanderlust – The Meantime Multiplex, Meantime Project Space, Cheltenham Spa
2010 Analogue photography workshop – South Harringey Junior School


Short fiction
2024 Morphic Resonance with David Rose – Duets: Stories (Editor Tom Conaghan), Scratch Books
2022 Indigo –  Confingo Journal (Confingo Publishing)
2022 Lost Planet – Responses to Pale Blue Dot (1990) by Voyager 1 (Pilot Press)
2022 Black (So Many Men) –  Responses to Love’s Work by Gillian Rose (Pilot Press)
2022 Screen Two and Sunflowers – Responses to Derek Jarman’s Blue (1993) (Pilot Press)
2018 Curtains and Windows, David Rose and Roelof Bakker – Confingo Journal, issue 10 (Confingo Publishing)
2017 Yellow – Unthology 9 (Unthank Books)
2015 Green – Unthology 7 (Unthank Books)
2015 Blue – Unthology 6 (Unthank Books)
2014 Red – Unthology 5 (Unthank Books)


Articles
2021 Photomonitor – exhibition review, Mitchell Moreno 
https://photomonitor.co.uk/exhibition/roelof-bakker-the-spots-that-never-went/
2020 The Blue Notebook, journal for artists’ books, Vol 14, No 2, spring/summer 2020 (Impact Press at the Centre for Fine Print Research, UWE Bristol) – ‘The Spots That Never Went’, Roelof Bakker
2020 European Journal of Life Writing, Vol 9, July 2020 – ‘A Boy’s Own Trauma: Revisiting a Photograph Recorded in a Nazi Concentration Camp First Encountered as a Child’, Roelof Bakker, https://ejlw.eu/article/view/36907
2019 The Book Arts Newsletter, No 129, December 2019-January 2020, cover artist  
2018 European Journal of Life Writing, Vol 7 – ‘Strong Room: Material Memories and the Digital Record’, Jane Wildgoose and Roelof Bakker, (2018) https://ejlw.eu/article/view/31507/28880


Negative Press London (www.neg-press.com) books are in international collections, including: 
Wellcome Foundation Library, London; Chelsea College of Arts Library, London; Artists’ Books Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Centre for Fine Print Research Archives, Bristol; The Museum of Modern Art Library, New York, US; Brooklyn Museum, New York, US; Yale Centre for British Art, Newhaven, US; Musée Français de la Photographie, Bièvres, France; Ramón Menéndez Pidal Foundation (Fundación Ramón Menéndez Pidal), Madrid, Spain; Ecole Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie, Arles, France; Artists’ Book Collection, Bavarian State Library, Munich, Germany; Library Project Collection, Photo Ireland, Dublin, Ireland; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia.

Residencies
2024 The Mint House, Pevensey
2020-2021 The Queer Hut, Cambridgeshire
2019 Cambridge Artworks, Cambridge
2015 De Grote Enk, Arnhem, Netherlands
2010 Hornsey Town Hall, London


Awards
2025 Finalist Photobooks 2025, Photo Frome, Frome
2024 Shortlist The Author Book Award (Prix du Livre), Arles Les Rencontres de la Photographie
2024 Shortlist EI2024 Photobook Award, Braga, Portugal
2021 First Prize, Open Short Stories, LGBTQ+ Encompass Network, Cambridge 
2019 Winner Cambridge Artworks Residency, Cambridge
2019 Highly Commended Finalist, Cornish Family Prize for Art and Design Publishing, National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
2013 Runner-up Best Mixed Anthology, Saboteur Awards
2011 First Prize, London Photographic Association Still Life 5


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