Born in 1972 in Chapelhall, North Lanarkshire, Scotland, lives and works in London
Robert Montgomery follows a tradition of conceptual art and stands out by bringing a poetic voice to the discourse of text art. known for his site-specific installations created from light and text, as well as his 'fire poems. Montgomery works in a "melancholic post-Situationist" tradition, primarily in public spaces.
for the 8th Çanakkale Biennial, Montgomery developed a new mural poem:
“Love detonates this distance between us to ash
holds your flooded heart in the fire of night”
