The Abbey Scholarship offers an early career painter a full academic year (October to June) at the British School at Rome.

The Abbey Fellowships offer mid-career painters three months at the School during the same period.

All living expenses are covered and stipends are paid. The Abbey Scholar will receive £500 per month and the Abbey Fellows will receive £700 per month. The Abbey Scholar will also receive a travel award of £100 established in memory of Rosa Lee who was a member of the Abbey Council until her death in 2009.

An Abbey residency at the British School is an unique opportunity for painters to get away from the pressures of their everyday lives and work without interruption, with the added charm of living in and becoming familiar with the most fascinating city of the ancient and modern world.

There is Classical Rome, still part of the living city, the Catholic Rome of the Vatican and the many churches, Renaissance Rome, the Rome of Caravaggio and his contemporaries, and the Rome of the cinema.

But there are also the many attractions of modern Rome with its dynamic contemporary art scene, to which artists at the British School have ready access.

The Assistant Director, Fine Arts, is responsible for all the artists during their stay. He organises many visits to places of interest in Rome and excursions to other parts of Italy, some of them to sites normally closed to the public.

Artists are encouraged to talk about their work and are given the opportunity to put on studio shows, to which Italian critics and gallerists, among others, are invited.

There is a separate small gallery at the School, where exhibitions by resident and non-resident artists are held. Each year the British School publishes a Catalogue of artists’ work and an Annual Report which also features the work of resident artists.

http://www.abbey.org.uk/

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Tuesday, June 15, 3 p.m., at booth Lucile Corty
Roxane Borujerdi „Whistling in the wind“

What’s your favourite item of clothing and why? Not worn anymore so I don’t know if it counts but a pair of Docs I got out of bin when as a lot younger. They have flowers and barely any sole on them. But they hurt too much now so they are sitting on my fireplace.

When did you last shed a tear? Not saying this to look hard but I find it near impossible to cry. I get upset, shout and all the rest a lot but not tears. So it was a long time ago, I think when a friend and I feel out.

If you could own any piece of art in the world, what would it be? ‘Morning’ by Agnes Martin.

Who makes you go weak with desire? Prince! I saw him at the O2 and screamed like a little girl for 2 hours.

When was the last time you embarrassed yourself to the point that you blush inwardly when you think about it? I was out and saw in the corner of my eye a bar stool behind me. Tried to sit down and it turned out to be woman doing up her shoe.

When was the last time you told a lie? 4 questions ago.

Who is your favourite fictional character? Window; my toy parrot when I was a kid.

If you had to represent your life so far in a shoebox, what would you put in it? My camera; obvious reasons – My necklace; first thing given to me by my first love – A large line drawing I did at school; first time I realised art had no boundaries

What album will you keep listening to and never get bored of? Postal Service- Give up

You got a hot date/guest you wanna impress- what do you cook them? Sushi! On a massive colourful plate!

What song will you have played at your funeral? Destiny Child- Survivor (see if anyone at the funeral is rude enough to point out the irony)

Should marijuana be legalised? Why not?

What’s the most embarrassing thing on your iPod Amanda Lear- Fashion Pack

If you could be trapped in a lift with any 3 living people – who would they be? Anthony McCall, Prince, although I don’t know if he would be very engaging to be stuck in a lift with, Richard Wilson

What makes you happy? Drawing on tracing paper

Walking through a metropolis as diverse and rich as the city of London, one’s eye is rarely focussed on a single object alone. Whether by choice or not, we are perpetually assimilating a never-ending stream of communication and visual stimuli. Such is the ceaseless challenge for modern urbanites, to take in and make the most of the infinite knowledge and opportunities that this city has to offer.

We are all constantly examining – a gaze that wanders from ourselves and our family, to wider concerns with society and the constructs that shape and mould us. Looking inwards, outwards and all around, the shortlisted visual artists for the 2010-2011 CIR programme explore a diverse range of both personal and objective concerns. Working across very different media, their practice engage with questions that we do not always take the time to face. Whether answers are found or not is immaterial – it is the process and journey of seeking that produces such rich and mind-lingering effects.

Rukhsana Jahangir, Curator

Alex Shepherd – Creative in Residence 2010
Alex Shepherd graduated from Camberwell College of Arts in 2009 with a BA Hon’s in Photography. Working in a wide variety of mediums including film, sculptural installation and photography, his work explores our sometimes troubled relationship with geometric form. Alex’s work often takes a very formal composition, inviting the viewer to study and rethink their conceptions and approach to form.

Study; Inwardly Degrading Square, 2010
Photogams (Resin-coated) 1/3
120cm x 150cm
£800.00 (unframed) – SOLD

Leslie Deere
Leslie Deere is a London based artist working with a variety of media. She has a BA Honours degree in Sonic Art (2004) and obtained a Masters Degree in Communications Art & Design from the Royal College of Art in 2009. Leslie has exhibited internationally with solo shows in Italy and Switzerland, and has a permanently installed sculpture in Geneva as part of a residency awarded by Galerie Analix Forever. Most recently her work has been featured at The BFI in London andTechnicity in Bologna, Italy, curated by Paul Ardenne.

Untitled, Doll, 2009
Silicon, Fiberglass, Paint, Cloth
30cm X 15cm X 15cm
Price available on request

Matt Blacker
Matt Blackler creates artworks using outmoded and labour intensive techniques that playfully hark back to a romanticised past, with his artworks often presenting the aesthetics of their production. Although primarily engaged in Sculpture, his practice encompasses printmaking, drawing and Engineering. Blackler moved to London in 2005 to study Fine Art at London Metropolitan. Since graduating he has continued his practice and been active in the East London art scene; showing regularly in London and internationally.

Work In Progress, 2010
(from ‘200 Fruitboxes’)
200 Fruitboxes, Wood Glue
£6,000.00
(Completed work sold)

Natalia Escobar
Natalia Escobar is a Colombian Artist living in the UK. She completed her BA Hons in Fine Art at Central Saint Martin’s in 2009. Through her practice Natalia explores the possibilities of light and sound to create immersive phenomenological experiences. Her work takes shape through the audience’s direct perception and at times, their misperception. She has showed her work in group shows in London and Stockholm. Natalia was nominated to the Exposure 09 Emerging Artist Award in London. Currently she is preparing for her first solo show to open in July at the Stone Squid gallery in Hastings.

1857 Geist Resevoir, 2009
£ 800.00
Sound designed by Natalia Escobar and Troy Pierce, produced by Troy Pierce

Nina Mangalanayagam
is a Swedish artist who graduated with a Masters in Photography from the Royal College of Art in 2009. She uses her personal experience and family to explore the fluidity and unfixed nature of identities that are influenced from, but also impact on, societies, families and environments. Exhibitions include BAC! at CCCB, Spain, European Night at Recontres d’Arles, France and Surfacing at European Commisson House, UK. Nina received the Jerwood Photography Award and the Photoworks graduate Award in 2005 and was short-listed for ArtsAdmin’s Decibel Visual Artist Award 2006.

Lacuna, 2009
DVD 11.02 min