https://rbakker.com Roelof Bakker – artist Tue, 22 Sep 2026 07:19:35 +0000 https://rbakker.com en https://rbakker.com/Home Sat, 08 May 2021 13:53:23 +0000 Roelof Bakker – artist https://rbakker.com/Home &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<img width="1500" height="1500" width_o="1500" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/48a36e177faf8de9a5d05f67db251e718d4a66e1c1f388269fcd44f30af1201d/Secret-Touch-Roelof-Bakker-IG.jpg" data-mid="252843740" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/48a36e177faf8de9a5d05f67db251e718d4a66e1c1f388269fcd44f30af1201d/Secret-Touch-Roelof-Bakker-IG.jpg" />Secret Touch – handfolded pigment print on washi paper, 2026 https://rbakker.com/Work Thu, 03 Jun 2021 20:10:05 +0000 Roelof Bakker – artist https://rbakker.com/Work PROJECTS/BOOKS 2020-2026 Some Queer Animals Some Queer Animals: Stories Of Roadkill2020-2026Of Mermaids’ Purses And Freemasons2023-2026The Barbara Becker Hat Collection – with Sven Jurgen 2026 Secret Touch 2026 Everything Is So Very Much Connected – with Sarah Bodman 2023-2026 The&nbsp;Missing 2024-2025 All The Sunflowers 2017-2026Plastic Particles In My Testicles 2025Eighteen Years Old 2024 Magnificent Bodies 2024 The Spots That Never Went2017-2023The Night Diana Died2022The Other Side Of The Hedge 2021Eavesdropping – with Jane Wildgoose 2021 Unprocessed/A Boy’s Own Trauma2020 PROJECTS/BOOKS 2010-2020 These Pleasures A Wayward Distraction 2020 Fragile2020After The Fall 2019 How Many Hopes Lie Buried Here Mother2016Strong Room – with Jane Wildgoose2014Wanderlust2011 Still2010-2012INFO ︎︎︎ https://rbakker.com/Info Thu, 03 Jun 2021 20:13:32 +0000 Roelof Bakker – artist https://rbakker.com/Info I’m a visual artist and writer who makes artist’s books and unique paper-based artefacts. Working with historical and contemporary photographic processes, printmaking and collage, I also explore reproduction and appropriation as tools of my making and look for new connections in my photography archive. Originally from the Netherlands, I’m based in Hastings, UK. Graduating in 2019 from Cambridge School of Art, my MA Fine Art show was awarded the Cambridge Artspace Residency. Much of my work relates to my place in the world, to where I am now and where I was before. I tell stories relating to bodies: human bodies, more-than-human bodies, queer bodies. Bodies that are polluted, diseased, traumatised, attacked, missing, dead. Bodies that connect with other bodies. Bodies in love. Bodies as sites of kinship, care and tenderness. My artist’s books are published by Negative Press London, an imprint I established in 2012, www.neg-press.com. Recent work addresses wildlife, nature, climate collapse and the violent relationship of humans towards the natural world and to ourselves, proposing a mutually caring relationship with ourselves and the more-than-human world. Titles include: • Some Queer Animals: Stories Of Roadkill (Negative Press London, 2026) is a book of the stories behind 16 portraits of British wildlife killed on the road or found dead in the landscape of one English village; a follow-up publication to the 2023 book Some Queer Animals. • everything is so very much connected (NPL, 2025), with Sarah Bodman (with contributions by Declan Wiffen and Rachel Smith), collates collages and writing created during a mail art correspondence, responding to topics relating to nature, queerness, the environment and climate collapse. • Magnificent Bodies (NPL, 2024). Photographs of dead insects hand-printed at an enormous scale, show the magnificent beauty of individual insects while highlighting the demise of flying insect numbers in the UK.&nbsp; • Eighteen Years Old (NPL, 2024). A tabloid newspaper of photographs of broken trees and writing without punctuation recalls the evening a gang of queer bashers set out to attack me. In the collection of the&nbsp;National Poetry Library, UK. • Some Queer Animals (NPL, 2023) collates life size postmortem contact printed cyanotype portraits of British wildlife killed on roads and in the landscape of one English village, the process of making proposing a mutually caring relationship with wildlife and nature, to nurture not destroy. Shortlist 2024 Author Book Award, Arles Les Rencontres de la Photographie, France. Shortlist EI2024 Photobook Award, Braga, Portugal. Finalist Photobooks Photofrome 2025, Frome, UK Negative Press London books&nbsp;are in international collections including Museum of Modern Art Library, New York, US; Wellcome Foundation Library, London, UK; National Art Library, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK; Artists’ Book Collection, Bavarian State Library, Munich, Germany; Bibliothèque Musée Français de la Photographie, Bièvres, France; Artist Book Collection, Bower Ashton Library, University of West England, UK; National Poetry Library, London, UK. Exhibitions include Photofusion, London; Bruce Castle Museum, London; La Mécanique Génerale, Arles, France; Winchester Gallery, Winchester; Bower Ashton Library, Bristol; Foyles Gallery, London; Dutch Centre, London; Ruskin Gallery, Cambridge; Bury Art Museum, Bury; and Marginal Arts Festival, Roanoke, Virginia, US. My writing appears in short fiction anthologies, journals and academic publications. roelofbakker(@)mac.com &nbsp; @roelof_bakker www.neg-press.com<img width="1600" height="1067" width_o="1600" height_o="1067" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a6018772c0edcedd1f7a12b3009b5b5a011df8886f400aff96fdf6b26eb71900/Plastic-Particles-Roelof-Bakker-4-5-1600.jpg" data-mid="252131938" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a6018772c0edcedd1f7a12b3009b5b5a011df8886f400aff96fdf6b26eb71900/Plastic-Particles-Roelof-Bakker-4-5-1600.jpg" /> CV ︎︎︎ https://rbakker.com/Secret-Touch Mon, 22 Jun 2026 19:43:50 +0000 Roelof Bakker – artist https://rbakker.com/Secret-Touch <img width="1500" height="1500" width_o="1500" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/48a36e177faf8de9a5d05f67db251e718d4a66e1c1f388269fcd44f30af1201d/Secret-Touch-Roelof-Bakker-IG.jpg" data-mid="252297972" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/48a36e177faf8de9a5d05f67db251e718d4a66e1c1f388269fcd44f30af1201d/Secret-Touch-Roelof-Bakker-IG.jpg" /> Secret Touch Handfolded pigment print on washi paper, 2026 Grand Prize, Hastings Museum Open 2026 ‘Secret Touch’ is an appropriated 1910 photograph showing two suited young men playing a visual trick on the viewer. It appears each man is holding his own hands, but on closer inspection the photo reveals they secretly hold each others’ hands, touching each other with love. Their tactile, tender gestures are about offering and surrendering, about trust and care. To celebrate their queer love, I coloured in the men’s shirts and breast pockets with different shades of pink. The print is handfolded like a pocket square to connect to the ones worn in the men’s suit breast pockets and the tactile nature of the photograph. Framed, the work is shown unfolded like a relic of gay love from another time. Much of my work is about bodies. Here I embrace the power of human love and show the body as a site of love and tenderness: two men loving each other, not fighting. It’s just the kind of image I was hoping to find and connect to when I was a teenager. ‘Secret Touch’ is included in Hastings Open, Hastings Museum, 3 October 2026 to 31 January 2027 and was awarded the grand prize (overall winner), an exhibition at Hastings Museum in 2028/9.&nbsp; ‘Secret Touch’ was included in the group show ‘Ruin and Repair’, 231 London Road, St Leonards-On-Sea, 20 June to 11 July 2026, curated by Oliver Zephyr Chard and Danielle Friesen <img width="1500" height="1000" width_o="1500" height_o="1000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7ecf483a8e4edf2a439f174509db26041aa61dc6f098673fb28b3d166d5862db/6.jpg" data-mid="252297961" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7ecf483a8e4edf2a439f174509db26041aa61dc6f098673fb28b3d166d5862db/6.jpg" /><img width="1500" height="1000" width_o="1500" height_o="1000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ea85b2a9a4b72cd0f51ccff624dc2584f5d576c1947584041261c596a75e7bb5/1.jpg" data-mid="252297960" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ea85b2a9a4b72cd0f51ccff624dc2584f5d576c1947584041261c596a75e7bb5/1.jpg" />Exhibition view at 232 London Road Gallery, St Leonards-on-Sea, 2026. Photographs by Suzi Corker<img width="1400" height="1400" width_o="1400" height_o="1400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/edd75acd5ebd2e21312a06119e3390a2851d9e3cdb6b8fb5b35edec27188e668/Roelof-Bakker-Secret-Touch-pocket.jpg" data-mid="249712231" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/edd75acd5ebd2e21312a06119e3390a2851d9e3cdb6b8fb5b35edec27188e668/Roelof-Bakker-Secret-Touch-pocket.jpg" />Secret Touch folded and worn in the breast pocket of a dinner jacket. Hand folded pigmentprint on washi paper, painted hardwood frame, size 45cm x 49cm. For sales enquiries contact info@neg-press.com WORK︎︎︎&nbsp; NEXT ︎︎︎ https://rbakker.com/Some-Queer-Animals Thu, 26 Oct 2023 18:22:51 +0000 Roelof Bakker – artist https://rbakker.com/Some-Queer-Animals &nbsp; Some Queer Animals 2020-2026 <img width="1200" height="1335" width_o="1200" height_o="1335" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ad2122c0fa1a48f94f102c9b54c7c5e171248c281affa4a007757304bfa07684/Roelof-Bakker-Some-Queer-Animals-book-display.jpg" data-mid="202203278" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ad2122c0fa1a48f94f102c9b54c7c5e171248c281affa4a007757304bfa07684/Roelof-Bakker-Some-Queer-Animals-book-display.jpg" />Some Queer Animals Artist’s book, published 2023 • Shortlist The Author Book Award 2024/Prix du Livre, Les Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles, France• Shortlist EI2024 Photobook Award, Braga, Portugal • Finalist PhotoFrome Photobooks 2025, Frome, UK Some Queer Animals: Stories of RoadkillArtist’s book/pamphlet, published 2026 <img width="1600" height="1008" width_o="1600" height_o="1008" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/01e65efd08f3154ad19fc61754ce2a817f9642466c801acca1435e7c233c8ea9/Roelof-Bakker-Some-Queer-Animals-Rook.jpg" data-mid="194957208" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/01e65efd08f3154ad19fc61754ce2a817f9642466c801acca1435e7c233c8ea9/Roelof-Bakker-Some-Queer-Animals-Rook.jpg" /> <img width="1080" height="1361" width_o="1080" height_o="1361" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5189751dab13ac9c5c042b22daae4a8ffbe038f282fc207f53984a41911e2f44/Roelof-Bakker-Some-Queer-Animals-Brown-Hare.jpg" data-mid="234490426" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5189751dab13ac9c5c042b22daae4a8ffbe038f282fc207f53984a41911e2f44/Roelof-Bakker-Some-Queer-Animals-Brown-Hare.jpg" /> <img width="1080" height="1361" width_o="1080" height_o="1361" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1e4fba9fe7e3a8f5662d7f618e53925a376f1d6e2aab367fd8cca19913f9d870/Roelof-Bakker-Some-Queer-Animals-Brown-Sparrow.jpg" data-mid="234490433" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1e4fba9fe7e3a8f5662d7f618e53925a376f1d6e2aab367fd8cca19913f9d870/Roelof-Bakker-Some-Queer-Animals-Brown-Sparrow.jpg" /> <img width="1600" height="1600" width_o="1600" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/47e915fc27dd80ec70ab135019537fa439c5227746d9182e7443af0e618be99e/Roelof-Bakker-Some-Queer-Animals-Arles-2024-1600px.jpg" data-mid="216213313" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/47e915fc27dd80ec70ab135019537fa439c5227746d9182e7443af0e618be99e/Roelof-Bakker-Some-Queer-Animals-Arles-2024-1600px.jpg" />Some Queer Animals – exhibition view, Prix du Livre D’Auteur 2024, La Mécanique Génerale, Arles, France, July-September 2024 Some Queer Animals is a project collating postmortem life size contact-printed cyanotype portraits of British wildlife killed on roads or found dead in the landscape around one English village, Linton in Cambridgeshire.&nbsp; The wider work responds at a local level to the global loss of 70% of wildlife in the last 50 years, while also functioning as an experiment in queering wildlife photography, away from operating high tech camera equipment, instead working in the field with paper prepared with cyanotype emulsion. Gently placing an individual animal being onto paper prepared with photographic cyanotype emulsion,&nbsp; prints were exposed in the field using the sun’s UV rays or in the studio by electric UV light. After exposure, an individual animal’s body was returned to nature, usually placed under a shrub at the edge of a field. Using care as activism, the process of documentation proposes a closer, mutually caring relationship with nature and wildlife; to look after all life on our planet, to nurture, not destroy. The prints are postmortem life-size portraits, queer blue and ghost-white impressions of wildlife violently killed, memorials to non-human persons who once lived in my locality, each one a unique being with their own life story and family. Two books were published as part of this project: - Some Queer Animals: postmortem cyanotype impressions of British wildlife killed on roads and in the landscape of one English village, May 2020-September 2021&nbsp;(2023) –&nbsp; a book of life size portraits with folded art print insert, poem and essay. - Some Queer Animals: Stories Of Roadkill (2026) is a book collating stories behind 16 portraits from&nbsp;Some Queer Animals. Paying tribute to these unique individuals by writing about the circumstances of their violent deaths, I also share knowledge about species, as well as addressing aspects of my approach to making. <img width="866" height="1234" width_o="866" height_o="1234" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7580687feb0861f80e0f1d2ec96cd4fdaae712e4f0b832e8a47a65ba508e1d93/Roelof-Bakker-SQA-Stories-Of-Roadkill-200dpi.jpg" data-mid="251388190" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/866/i/7580687feb0861f80e0f1d2ec96cd4fdaae712e4f0b832e8a47a65ba508e1d93/Roelof-Bakker-SQA-Stories-Of-Roadkill-200dpi.jpg" /><img width="1800" height="1283" width_o="1800" height_o="1283" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c23880c0cb81acad4616ef86c35943aebf832e6e20a3c0002face904126fae38/Roelof-Bakker-SQA-Stories-Of-Roadkill-Adder-web.jpg" data-mid="252298671" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c23880c0cb81acad4616ef86c35943aebf832e6e20a3c0002face904126fae38/Roelof-Bakker-SQA-Stories-Of-Roadkill-Adder-web.jpg" />Some Queer Animals available at https://www.neg-press.com/product/some-queer-animalsSome Queer Animals: Stories Of Roadkillhttps://www.neg-press.com/product/some-queer-animals-stories-of-roadkill-roelof-bakker In the wider project the prints are collated as groups to emphasise how all wildlife is connected and belongs to the same, increasingly decimated, ecosystem.&nbsp;The project’s title is inspired by the 1940s children’s book, Some Queer Animals And Why (Charles Mortimer, Guildford Press Ltd, 1947), which highlights in poetry and drawings unusual appearance and behaviour in wildlife, teaching children to find value and beauty in nature’s diversity. <img width="1600" height="1194" width_o="1600" height_o="1194" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/114c921b86c0aa053d87771b97d2d1c2576764fdbc2d89d4f94b93b8c1d0fce5/Roelof-Bakker-Some-Queer-Animals-Artspace-April-2024-1600px.jpg" data-mid="210702761" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/114c921b86c0aa053d87771b97d2d1c2576764fdbc2d89d4f94b93b8c1d0fce5/Roelof-Bakker-Some-Queer-Animals-Artspace-April-2024-1600px.jpg" />Some Queer Animals (Some British Birds) and Some Queer Animals (Fox) – Installation view, Cambridge Artspace, April 2024 Some Queer Animals and&nbsp;Some Queer Animals: Stories Of Roadkill in ‘Everyday Histories’ at Keate Family Arts Trust, Cambridge, 12-13 September 2026 Some Queer Animals in Near Dwellers As In Dwellers, Bothkinds Project Space, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 1 October to 30 November 2025 Some Queer Animals, ‘Roadkill’ artist’s talk with Jane Desmond and Lou Florence, as part of Near Dwellers As In Dwellers exhibition, Vancouver, 14 October 2025 <img width="1596" height="1235" width_o="1596" height_o="1235" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6f21f86b0161fb97defd5a22260325e89553051fa9aeb05d70c5e2b8e0fc016c/Bothkinds-Project-Space-2025.png" data-mid="246659773" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6f21f86b0161fb97defd5a22260325e89553051fa9aeb05d70c5e2b8e0fc016c/Bothkinds-Project-Space-2025.png" />Some Queer Animals – exhibition view, Bothkinds Project Space, Vancouver, BC, Canada, October-November 2025. Photograph by Bothkinds Project Space showing paintings by Jess Garbe (left) and Lou Florence (right). Some Queer Animals at Photo Frome 2025, Finalist, Photobooks 2025, 5 April-27 April 2025 Some Queer Animals in Queering Connections: Glitchy Kinship, Winchester Gallery, Winchester, 31 January 2025-15 March 2025 Some Queer Animals in Esposiçao Photobook Award Exhibition, Encontros Da Imagem 2024, Braga, Portugal, 20 September-3 November 2024 Some Queer Animals in Arles 2024 Book Awards Exhibition, La Mécanique Génerale, Arles, France, 1 July-29 September 2024 Some Queer Animals, shortlisted for AUTHOR BOOK AWARD, Arles Les Rencontres de la Photographie 2024 Some Queer Animals in B for Book curated by Sarah Bodman, Frankenstein Press, Bristol, UK, 28 June-19 JulySome Queer Animals (Sparrow) in ‘In Praise of Birds’, WBN United Artists, Bower Ashton Library, UWE Bristol, 19 April-16 July 2024 Some Queer Animals (Some British Birds) in Symbiosis II, London Alternative Photography Collective, Four Corners Gallery, 121 Roman Road, London E2 0QN, 15-18 May 2024 Some Queer Animals, Some Queer Animals (Some British Birds), and Some Queer Animals (Fox) in Pathways, a one-day installation of work and exchange with artist Noor Ali Chagani, Cambridge Artspace, Cambridge, 20 April 2024. Some Queer Animals in Symbiosis, a London Alternative Photography Collective show at 100 Years Gallery, London, January 2024 Some Queer Animals (Magpie) in Shutter Hub Open 23/24, Art at the ARB, University of Cambridge, Alison Richard Building, Cambridge, December 2023-February 2024 Some Queer Animals launch at the Small Publishers Fair, Conway Hall, London, 27 October 2023. Some Queer Animals – softcover book with art print insert, PUR-bound, 33 colour cyanotype impressions. Book size 240mm x 294mm, 80pp, 170gsm FSC certified wood-free uncoated paper. Double-sided art print, unfolded size 442mm x 546mm, 150gsm FSC certified wood-free uncoated paperstock. Printed in Great Britain. Published 27 October 2023.&nbsp;ISBN 9780957382879 Some Queer Animals: Stories Of Roadkill – softcover book, stapled, 17 colour photographs. Book size 105mm x 148mm, 44pp, 110gsm FSC-certified recycled paper. Printed in England. Published 26 June 2026. WORK︎︎︎&nbsp; NEXT ︎︎︎ https://rbakker.com/Of-Mermaids-Purses-And-Freemasons Fri, 23 Jun 2023 09:21:57 +0000 Roelof Bakker – artist https://rbakker.com/Of-Mermaids-Purses-And-Freemasons Of Mermaids’ Purses And Freemasons Artist’s book, 2026 <img width="1500" height="1125" width_o="1500" height_o="1125" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ebca51e325f83017d6d3a025c102de28c1b1e2ded0cb3248780d8487a7be1066/Roelof-Bakker-mermaids-purses-cover-web.jpg" data-mid="252378497" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ebca51e325f83017d6d3a025c102de28c1b1e2ded0cb3248780d8487a7be1066/Roelof-Bakker-mermaids-purses-cover-web.jpg" /><img width="1500" height="1130" width_o="1500" height_o="1130" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a8a14518412e827cd77db17ab6cd1df8f82db06163f56fab7ffa26d84650ce7d/Roelof-Bakker-mermaids-purses-lodge-web.jpg" data-mid="252297562" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a8a14518412e827cd77db17ab6cd1df8f82db06163f56fab7ffa26d84650ce7d/Roelof-Bakker-mermaids-purses-lodge-web.jpg" /><img width="1500" height="1130" width_o="1500" height_o="1130" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b9e249e41a698bf6cf2d7f327cab0e099bcb883371c788a79b42fd4e4a412f66/Roelof-Bakker-mermaids-purses-intro-web.jpg" data-mid="252314647" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b9e249e41a698bf6cf2d7f327cab0e099bcb883371c788a79b42fd4e4a412f66/Roelof-Bakker-mermaids-purses-intro-web.jpg" /><img width="1500" height="1130" width_o="1500" height_o="1130" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7963c0acce298972ccc51f86d24a1c0bb5559d29308b23baca9ad20120bea1f7/Roelof-Bakker-mermaids-purses-initiation-web.jpg" data-mid="252297571" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7963c0acce298972ccc51f86d24a1c0bb5559d29308b23baca9ad20120bea1f7/Roelof-Bakker-mermaids-purses-initiation-web.jpg" /><img width="1500" height="988" width_o="1500" height_o="988" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1b68a11f62c813532f319b1cd276c0043cdfd100a97bce9ac4419ad44beef053/Roelof-Bakker-mermaids-purses-inside-cover-web.jpg" data-mid="252297883" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1b68a11f62c813532f319b1cd276c0043cdfd100a97bce9ac4419ad44beef053/Roelof-Bakker-mermaids-purses-inside-cover-web.jpg" /> Mermaids purses are ray and shark egg cases produced by female fish. Over a three year period, I collected empty purses washed ashore on the beaches of Hastings, East Sussex.Purses are fixed to seabed flora with string, each purse protecting a developing embryo as it grows. After a fish hatches, it breaks out of the purse and swims off, the abandoned purses often washing up on beaches. I pressed the purses like flowers then photographed them arranged over the pages of By-Laws, Sidcup Lodge, No. 6552 (1952 edition) – a vintage book of membership rules for the Sidcup branch of free and accepted masons. The purses physically obstruct – redact – the written rules of an exclusively men-only networking society, thereby undermining a system of patriarchy. By putting random objects together I wondered how they might connect and what ideas would be evoked. Like with Some Queer Animals before, I physically interact with nature with tenderness and care recoginising that each empty purse is entirely unique in form.In Of Mermaids’ Purses And Freemasons both the pages of By-Laws and the purses are reproduced at their actual size. This handmade book uses multiple tactile paperstocks and is finished with Japanese stab binding using linen thread. Edition of 5. To purchase contact info@neg-press.comHandmade artist’s book, 32pp, 23.7cm x 18cm, stab bound. Various paper stocks, linen thread. Edition of 5. £45 WORK︎︎︎&nbsp; NEXT ︎︎︎ https://rbakker.com/The-Barbara-Becker-Hat-Collection Sat, 19 Sep 2026 10:42:45 +0000 Roelof Bakker – artist https://rbakker.com/The-Barbara-Becker-Hat-Collection The Barbara Becker Hat Collection Roelof Bakker and Sven Jurgen Artist’s book, 2026 <img width="1500" height="868" width_o="1500" height_o="868" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/39f98e3ad54205a3b0caaa7e45ced9e80b37d83fa24372eac53ecf321ff80648/BB-cover-web2.jpg" data-mid="252326317" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/39f98e3ad54205a3b0caaa7e45ced9e80b37d83fa24372eac53ecf321ff80648/BB-cover-web2.jpg" /> In self-portraits created with my American friend Sven Jurgen in 1986 when I was 21, I became Barbara Becker, modelling impromptu hats made using a cushion, a hand towel, a white sheet and other bits retrieved from my bedroom. So much of what we remember is different to how it was. In the book, the photographs are presented as mirrored double images, reflecting the past back at the viewer. Which is the original? <img width="1500" height="868" width_o="1500" height_o="868" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/eb8abba88a2411162ad22a848247ba47dbd80a8b8bf7bb7cc8bc282ad5347f37/BB-12-13-CENTRE-web.JPEG" data-mid="252326469" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/eb8abba88a2411162ad22a848247ba47dbd80a8b8bf7bb7cc8bc282ad5347f37/BB-12-13-CENTRE-web.JPEG" /><img width="1500" height="1106" width_o="1500" height_o="1106" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a5c15566c46edc824a08b3add3b11272d46c9c4a4246f899911cd0d0786780d9/BB-18-CLOSE-web.jpg" data-mid="252326735" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a5c15566c46edc824a08b3add3b11272d46c9c4a4246f899911cd0d0786780d9/BB-18-CLOSE-web.jpg" /> The accompanying text responds to recent research resolving unanswered questions about Michael Deary, my first boyfriend who died in 1986 of AIDS-related illnesses. Forty years ago, being Barbara helped me contextualise the madness and horror of that time, Barbara like a guardian angel looking down on me. So much has happened since. But I will never forget Michael Deary. This 24-page postcard-size book is bound by hand using cotton thread.The Barbara Becker Hat Collection is available from Negative Press London at&nbsp;https://tinyurl.com/4h2v3aux <img width="1500" height="1125" width_o="1500" height_o="1125" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/41021d2540835a923457c276cd1171b8c12af732b3231e38d5157b3a582b3a13/BB-COVER-ANGLE-web.jpg" data-mid="252326656" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/41021d2540835a923457c276cd1171b8c12af732b3231e38d5157b3a582b3a13/BB-COVER-ANGLE-web.jpg" /> 24pp, 14.8 x 10.5cm. Printed in England on FSC-certified recycled paper. Handbound in cotton thread. Published 2026. WORK︎︎︎&nbsp; NEXT ︎︎︎ https://rbakker.com/everything-is-so-very-much-connected Thu, 16 Oct 2025 10:38:11 +0000 Roelof Bakker – artist https://rbakker.com/everything-is-so-very-much-connected <img width="1200" height="1200" width_o="1200" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/68089c944a8625d74387fbb925931b4f5f72245bfdf4a99ec828b2ede0c7e7e8/Bakker-Bodman-everything-cover-1200.jpg" data-mid="239443058" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/68089c944a8625d74387fbb925931b4f5f72245bfdf4a99ec828b2ede0c7e7e8/Bakker-Bodman-everything-cover-1200.jpg" />everything is so very much connected, Roelof Bakker and Sarah BodmanMail art collage correspondence and artist’s books, 2023-2026 <img width="2400" height="715" width_o="2400" height_o="715" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bc39744d2525fed21355cca03e687a44822fb4ce1b302a4c458a4b194faf5bbb/everything-bakker-bodman-spreads-2025.jpg" data-mid="239443073" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bc39744d2525fed21355cca03e687a44822fb4ce1b302a4c458a4b194faf5bbb/everything-bakker-bodman-spreads-2025.jpg" /> <img width="1143" height="1600" width_o="1143" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6adcec4a228b4c36d534b3af4564e24bf5e65f4da85c9372fa2a1b0bcd9af9bb/RB-A-Design-For-Care-As-Activism-front.jpg" data-mid="239443083" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6adcec4a228b4c36d534b3af4564e24bf5e65f4da85c9372fa2a1b0bcd9af9bb/RB-A-Design-For-Care-As-Activism-front.jpg" /><img width="1133" height="1600" width_o="1133" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/758f374f1e1ab0c6cd699273e9c1dbbc96d5499053d41fd899a4f348e0fb42d6/SB-Flowers-Seeing-Understanding-front.jpg" data-mid="239443134" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/758f374f1e1ab0c6cd699273e9c1dbbc96d5499053d41fd899a4f348e0fb42d6/SB-Flowers-Seeing-Understanding-front.jpg" /> everything is so very much connected is a book collating collages and writing from a collaborative mail art collage project by Roelof Bakker and artist/researcher Sarah Bodman. Together we created a place to occupy in our minds to explore creating art – a space to think about nature, the environment and climate collapse through physical making. The project was inspired by a statement by American writer and activist James Baldwin – ‘The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.’ We took prompts from artist Paul Thek’s ‘Teaching Notes’, a questionnaire Thek compiled for his New York design class in the late 1970s, while also posing questions to one another to inspire our collage-making. Scissors, glue, pencil, paint and rubber stamps were our tools; original photographs, vintage postcards, old books, newspapers and magazines our raw material.I’m with the trees, we sing together. Made with hands is handmade activism. If not human I would be a mountain. Love nature for more than its appearance. To widen the collaborative spirit of the project, we invited artists/writers Rachel Smith and Declan Wiffen to respond to our collages with new writing. Two additional archival not-for-sale publications relating to the project were published in 2026 by Negative Press London: • twenty-two collages, front and back • twenty-two postcards, twenty-two collages everything is so very much connected is available fromhttps://www.neg-press.com/product/everything-is-so-very-much-connected <img width="1036" height="1489" width_o="1036" height_o="1489" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fd7fe4f40cabf0942fa02ad2c022d008d9e64652d17a23167994bc899ca09c39/Roelof-Bakker-Sarah-Bodman-three-books.jpg" data-mid="252301424" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fd7fe4f40cabf0942fa02ad2c022d008d9e64652d17a23167994bc899ca09c39/Roelof-Bakker-Sarah-Bodman-three-books.jpg" />The three books from the project&nbsp;everything is so very much connected•&nbsp;everything is so very much connected (2025), Roelof Bakker and Sarah Bodman, with contributions by Rachel Smith and Declan Wiffen• twenty-two collages, front and back&nbsp;(2026),&nbsp;Roelof Bakker and Sarah Bodman• twenty-two postcards, twenty-two collages&nbsp;(2026),&nbsp;Roelof Bakker and Sarah Bodman Keywords: climate collapse, environment, queering nature, mail art, collage, artist’s booksA podcast about the project was broadcast on World Collage Day 2025, 10 May 2025 –&nbsp;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3hMk4SaG6A <img width="1107" height="1600" width_o="1107" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/45c21689152fe86b5ee09364932693f258124f4f54c83be0ea7e5222d5caee9a/everthing-bower-right-web.jpg" data-mid="244668489" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/45c21689152fe86b5ee09364932693f258124f4f54c83be0ea7e5222d5caee9a/everthing-bower-right-web.jpg" /> everything is so very much connected, Roelof Bakker and Sarah Bodman, exhibition of collages at Bower Ashton Library, Artists’ Books Exhibition, 5 February to 31 March 2026. (Photograph: Marian Kilpatrick) twenty-two postcards, twenty-two collages, Roelof Bakker and Sarah Bodman in Alive! Contemporary Printmaking, Druckwerk Print and Art, Basel, Switzerland, 16-18 June 2026everything is so very much connected, Roelof Bakker and Sarah Bodman in the group show Antidote at Artspace, Cambridge, 6-8 February 2026 A podcast about the project was broadcast on World Collage Day 2025, 10 May 2025 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3hMk4SaG6A Roelof Bakker experiments with photographic processes, writes and makes artist’s books published through his imprint Negative Press with titles in international collections. Recent books include&nbsp;Plastic Particles in my Testicles (2025) and Some Queer Animals (2023), shortlist Arles Prix Du Livre 2024). Sarah Bodman is an artist and researcher at CFPR, University of the West of England, Bristol; editor of the Artist’s Book Yearbook, Book Arts Newsletter and The Blue Notebook journal for artists’ books. Recent projects include Read With Me, created in tribute to Susan Hiller’s Sisters of Menon (Coracle Press, Gimpel Fils, 1983). https://www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk @sarah.bodman Rachel Smith works across art and writing, producing visual poetry and artist’s books. She co-edits ‘Intergraphia’ with Emma Bolland. Recent books include stopping. Or – part of AMBruno ‘Intervals’ project;&nbsp; Small gestures of endurance, Penteract Press; Breath:e St(utter)ance, Timglaser. @rachel_artsmith Declan Wiffen (he/him) teaches Contemporary Literature and Creative Writing at The University of Kent, also running writing courses which think through questions about queer ecologies. His pamphlet, indiscriminate lanking, published Invisible Hand Press, 2022. @lichencamp 56pp, 21cm x 29.7cm, wire-o-bound. Printed on 170gsm and 300gsm natural recycled paper made with 100% recycled pulp (FSC Certified Recycling) by Sustainable Print Ltd, Kent, UK. ISBN 978-0-9573828-9-3. Published 24 October 2025 with a collaged reading event at Small Publishers Fair 2025, Conway Hall, London WORK︎︎︎&nbsp; NEXT ︎︎︎ https://rbakker.com/The-Missing Tue, 22 Sep 2026 07:19:35 +0000 Roelof Bakker – artist https://rbakker.com/The-Missing The Missing&nbsp;Residency and exhibition at The Mint House, Pevensey, 2024-2025&nbsp; Artist’s books, video, artefacts <img width="1500" height="1500" width_o="1500" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f76a0d2bf57fa9875735cb86c970b7220b464e9f6f1920c55b888551aee5b753/Roelof-Bakker-The-Missing-artist-book-open-web.jpg" data-mid="252449400" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f76a0d2bf57fa9875735cb86c970b7220b464e9f6f1920c55b888551aee5b753/Roelof-Bakker-The-Missing-artist-book-open-web.jpg" /><img width="1500" height="1500" width_o="1500" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/56c832cf66e91b24b9aa1832517e7956ba0b798495750402de4509898f192e19/Roelof-Bakker-The-Missing-Artist-Book-web.jpg" data-mid="252811416" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/56c832cf66e91b24b9aa1832517e7956ba0b798495750402de4509898f192e19/Roelof-Bakker-The-Missing-Artist-Book-web.jpg" /><img width="1500" height="1289" width_o="1500" height_o="1289" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3b8ace4bc2f05518f5b88bbb6489f366085d137856423aa5079191f79defa909/Roelof-Bakker-The-Missing-artist-books-table-web.jpg" data-mid="252811376" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3b8ace4bc2f05518f5b88bbb6489f366085d137856423aa5079191f79defa909/Roelof-Bakker-The-Missing-artist-books-table-web.jpg" /><img width="1500" height="1091" width_o="1500" height_o="1091" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a554c056613733219d1b5b46d7dde0a905815694168f5f02241c77495b5c2d76/Roelof-Bakker-The-Missing-Tongue-web2.jpg" data-mid="252811412" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a554c056613733219d1b5b46d7dde0a905815694168f5f02241c77495b5c2d76/Roelof-Bakker-The-Missing-Tongue-web2.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="1500" width_o="1500" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4d46996e6f36bab2b4b4bfe57587b383d618647f5bf613b4a51723475893aff5/Roelof-Bakker-The-Missing-cyanotype.jpg" data-mid="252448767" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4d46996e6f36bab2b4b4bfe57587b383d618647f5bf613b4a51723475893aff5/Roelof-Bakker-The-Missing-cyanotype.jpg" /><img width="1500" height="2004" width_o="1500" height_o="2004" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d27cc8040cfc06689fa2fcddd40d75a80478650d29172b0044b653f8363ef800/Roelof-Bakker-The-Diamond-Pane-Window-lumen.jpg" data-mid="252811807" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d27cc8040cfc06689fa2fcddd40d75a80478650d29172b0044b653f8363ef800/Roelof-Bakker-The-Diamond-Pane-Window-lumen.jpg" /> Together with six other East Sussex artists, I took part in a residency at the 16th century The Mint House, Pevensey, in September 2024. Each artist responded in their own way to the house’s evocative spaces and its history. The residency culminated in Gathered, an in-situ group show in May 2025. My installation addressed the house’s 20th century history as an antique shop, when visitors’ tours were popular and invented stories were presented as fact to ‘the wandering tourist’ with ‘a taste for the fanciful, the uncanny and queer’. I focused on a tiny chamber once called The Haunted Room and its history as a site of performance. During house tours&nbsp;an invented story was told to visitors that several centuries ago a ‘lady had her tongue torn out hence it is haunted’. This violent act was inititated by a jealous gentleman when he discovered she was seeing another man, both lovers subsequently suffering a horrific death. In the film The Missing the camera zooms in on a postcard of the room’s 1912 interior; a poem is recited; a man retraces the room’s missing walls taken out many&nbsp;years ago, then screams for the missing: missing walls, people, stories, histories, voices. Cameraless cyanotype and lumen photograms portray the diamond paned window, the only surviving witness to events that never took place. Three ringbound artist’s books collate archival documents I collected about The Haunted Room and artworks made inspired by it, as well as paraphernalia from my own history of ‘missing’. Overlaid on one of the books is a lasercut artefact of the handwritten word ‘tongue’ copied from a postcard sent by a visitor of The Haunted Room retelling the tale to a friend in 1912. At an event on Sunday 4 May I retold the fictional story of The Haunted Room in the space itself and read my poem The Missing, continuing the room’s history of performance and storytelling. GATHERED artists were Roelof Bakker, Elizabeth Doak, Kathleen King, Felicity Parkin Bell, Tony Pulford, Clare Shoosmith and Clare Somerville Perkins. Curated by Elizabeth Doak and Clare Shoosmith.&nbsp; The Missing, residency and installation as part of Gathered. Residency September 2025, exhibition 2-4 May 2025. The&nbsp;Missing, three ring-bound artist’s book. Works on paper, various sizes, mixed media. Tongue, lasercut perspex. The Missing, video colour, sound, 7 minutes 8 seconds. The Diamond-Pane Window, cyanotype prints, various sizes.The film The Missing includes the recording ‘Il Flauto’ by Jeroen Huisman and Roelof Bakker from the cassette ‘Don’t Use Violence’, BAK Tapes, Arnhem, The Netherlands, 1984. WORK︎︎︎&nbsp; NEXT ︎︎︎ https://rbakker.com/All-The-Sunflowers Sat, 30 Jul 2022 10:50:22 +0000 Roelof Bakker – artist https://rbakker.com/All-The-Sunflowers <img width="3024" height="3024" width_o="3024" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6ed2c59c5f003688eb72ef39d09dccde313f01a7ed40918ddda31410816eb40b/AllTheSunflowers_Six-side-view.JPEG" data-mid="252303850" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6ed2c59c5f003688eb72ef39d09dccde313f01a7ed40918ddda31410816eb40b/AllTheSunflowers_Six-side-view.JPEG" /> All The Sunflowers (Six Sunflowers) in ‘Odour’, curated by Rowan Corkhill, Electro Studio Space, St Leonard’s-On-Sea, July 2026 <img width="1000" height="1366" width_o="1000" height_o="1366" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7a5650e485d72bd48c4d21b59dc1b8b2950e82fb52a03c2066e48a6b208f1103/sunflowers-roelof-bakker-.jpg" data-mid="241399671" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7a5650e485d72bd48c4d21b59dc1b8b2950e82fb52a03c2066e48a6b208f1103/sunflowers-roelof-bakker-.jpg" /><img width="1000" height="1379" width_o="1000" height_o="1379" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/22f541585dc9146745578d2aa79b3da4f1712bc6cb57d189341b1f2f12bc0768/sunflowers-roelof-bakker-2.jpg" data-mid="241399670" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/22f541585dc9146745578d2aa79b3da4f1712bc6cb57d189341b1f2f12bc0768/sunflowers-roelof-bakker-2.jpg" />All The Sunflowers, 2025, photographs of artist’s book. Two interpretations each showing two editions of the 2021 book intertwined back to front <img width="1600" height="1067" width_o="1600" height_o="1067" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d0f28d25c672bdbd1960b226f4c1b1ccde884a190c51d9eee0765829b5567281/Roelof-Bakker-Where-Have-All-The-Flowers-Gone.jpg" data-mid="149165540" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d0f28d25c672bdbd1960b226f4c1b1ccde884a190c51d9eee0765829b5567281/Roelof-Bakker-Where-Have-All-The-Flowers-Gone.jpg" />All The Sunflowers, 2021, artist’s book as paper sculpture <img width="1600" height="1067" width_o="1600" height_o="1067" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3b9bc413b125e318530e3308425dd6c1dc65cf23400db89d979441e26480d729/Roelof-Bakker-Sunflowers-triptych-web.jpg" data-mid="241399774" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3b9bc413b125e318530e3308425dd6c1dc65cf23400db89d979441e26480d729/Roelof-Bakker-Sunflowers-triptych-web.jpg" /> <img width="1000" height="1253" width_o="1000" height_o="1253" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0dc1a70d4c6ee0f3d808dbde96df350489c1e75b7fc4e03cbf9be55900664d46/Roelof-Bakker-sunflowers-lumen-print.jpg" data-mid="241399739" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0dc1a70d4c6ee0f3d808dbde96df350489c1e75b7fc4e03cbf9be55900664d46/Roelof-Bakker-sunflowers-lumen-print.jpg" />The Spots That Never Went, exhibition view, Photofusion, London 2021. Triptych paying tribute to a diseased boyfriend: artist’s book, lumen print on Ilford RC black and white photographic paper; in the centre ‘Just To Say That I Am Thinking Of You And I Hope It Will Last’, Xerox poster from Filofax page, 1987. All The Sunflowers With Vincent van Gogh, 2017-ongoing Framed works, 2026; Postcard set, 2025; Artist’s book, 2021 All The Sunflowers is an ongoing experiment which began in 2017 in erasure and appropriation, as well as being an investigation into the sculptural qualities of a book and the possibility of a book to be reinvented by cutting and glueing, the book taking on unexpected new life forms. It’s also an exploration in the potential of reproduction, of copies of copies becoming original artworks in their own right,&nbsp;multiple&nbsp;modified interpretations&nbsp; Vincent van Gogh painted seven sunflowers paintings in Arles over the period 1888-1889. These included three painted copies of two of the sunflowers paintings. I collated copies of these seven paintings in 2021 in book form, with individual paintings facing a page illustrated by a single colour picked from the artwork. I subsequently cut out all flowers by hand using a scalpel – all the sunflowers gone. In their layered, hollowed-out form, the modified paintings become three-dimensional, each visually dependent on the others. Fixed to the wall, the hollowed out pages create shadow flowers, which I have fixed creating photographic lumen prints working with sunlight and black and white darkroom paper.&nbsp; A set of seven postcards was published in 2025 and shows photographs of two editions of the 2021 book spontenaously intertwined back to front, creating seven new interpretations of the sunflowers works, here bringing to the foreground unique colours picked from each of the seven sunflowers paintings.The book and a lumen print were included in the 2021 solo show The Spots That Never Went at Photofusion, London, as part of a triptych responding to personal memories of the 1980s AIDS crisis. All The Sunflowers (version), appeared in Odour curated by Rowan Corkhill, Electro Studio Space, St Leonards-on-Sea, July 2026. All the Sunflowers, postcard set. Edition of 20 in multiple colour sleeves. Published December 2025. Sold out.All The Sunflowers, cover of Book Arts Newsletter No.149, November 2022. All The Sunflowers, handcut artist’s book, 210mm x 280mm, 14pp, edition of 7, 2021. Not for sale. All The Sunflowers, artist’s book and lumen print in the solo show The Spots That Never Went, Photofusion, London, 2021. WORK︎︎︎&nbsp; NEXT ︎︎︎