“Exceptionally funny, Bobby Baker is a performance artist of rare quality and distinction.”
Daily Telegraph
Bobby Baker is a woman and an artist. She lives in London, England. In her career of over 35 years she has, among other things, danced with meringue ladies, made a life-size edible and tasty cake version of her family to be eaten by visitors, opened her kitchen to the public and subsequently many kitchens around the world, driven around the streets of London strapped to the back of a truck screaming at passers-by through a megaphone to “pull yourselves together” and cured thousands of her pea patients with their many ‘unreasonable’ psychological and behavioural problems with her Therapy Empire in How to Live.
Bobby Baker’s company, Daily Life Ltd, is a charity, regularly funded by Arts Council England, which aims to produce artworks that explore the value in this world of ambiguity, altruism, awareness, arithmetic, agony, accessibility, attention to detail, arduous application…oh and, of course, art – in a (dis)arming, amusing and occasionally alliterative way.
| Date | Title | Venue | City |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 March 2011 | Durational Sit Down Chit Chat | Pinter Studio, Queen Mary, University of London | |
| 21 January – 20 March 2011 | The Life of the Mind: Love, Sorrow and Obsession | The New Art Gallery Walsall | Walsall |
| 1 December 2010 | Bobby Baker, Prof Bas Verplanken & Simone Lewis in Conversation | ICIA, University of Bath | Bath |
| 10 November 2010 – 28 January 2011 | Mad Gyms and Kitchens: a work in progress | ICIA, University of Bath | Bath |
| 23 October 2010 | Happy Talk | Durham | |
| 24 September 2010 | Pull Yourself Together | Harlem | |
| 16 September 2010 | Outside IN Launch | The New Art Gallery Walsall | Walsall |
| 25 February – 25 March 2010 | Bobby Baker's Diary Drawings: Mental Illness And Me | Museu Calouste Gulbenkian | Lisbon |
| 31 October 2009 | Culture Cake - a one day workshop | Chelsea Theatre | London |
| 8 October 2009 | On The Drawing Of Breath | Newcastle University | |
| 11 May – 1 July 2009 | The Art Of Engagement | www.islandsinstitute.ning.com | |
| 18 April 2009 | Peas, Placards, Protest! | Wellcome Collection | London |
| 18 March – 30 July 2009 | Bobby Baker's Diary Drawings: Mental Illness and Me | Wellcome Collection | London |
| 16 October 2008 | A Model Family | Queen Mary, University of London | London |
| 19 July 2008 | Give Peas a Chance! | London | |
| 8–9 March 2008 | Bumper Package | Toynbee Studios | |
| 20–23 September 2007 | How to Live | Wellcome Trust | London |
| 24–25 May 2007 | How To Live | Warwick Arts Centre | Coventry |
| 15–16 May 2007 | How to Live | Norfolk and Norwich Festival, Norwich Playhouse | Norwich |
| 7–8 March 2007 | How to Live | Nuffield Theatre | Lancaster |
| 31 October – 1 November 2006 | How to Live | Gardner Arts Centre | Brighton |
| 20–23 September 2006 | How to Live | Barbican Theatre | London |
| 25 April 2006 | How to Live | BBC Radio 4 |
