Annual Report 2008-9 - The British School at Rome

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F INE A RTS AWARDS F INE A RTS S CHOLARS’ ACTIVITIES Abbey Fellows in Painting Dragica Janketic Carlin Luke Caulfield Graham Durward Abbey Scholar in Painting Eddie Peake Arts Council England Helen Chadwick Fellow Cath Keay Australia Council Residents Kimberlee Anderson Gabriella Bisetto Penelope Cain Derek Hill Foundation Scholar in Portraiture Ruth Murray Photoworks Fellow David Spero Quebec Architecture Resident Pierre Gendron Rome Scholar in Architecture James Robertson Rome Scholar in the Fine Arts Sara Barker Rome Scholar in Landscape Architecture Joseph Bedford Sainsbury Scholars in Painting and Sculpture Katie Cuddon Celia Hempton Sargant Fellow Amikam Toren Wingate Rome Scholar Liz Rideal 28 Building upon contacts set in place during previous years, as well as the interest of the new city government in developing its relationships with the foreign academies, 2008–9 was marked by a large number of exhibitions and projects involving BSR artists and architects, who had frequent contacts with residents of the other foreign institutions. On 26 and 27 September 2008, a brief exhibition entitled Tempo Reale presented works created by Fine Arts scholars Cath Keay, Amanda Marburg and Liz Rideal, and by other artists then resident (Christopher Cook, and former Fine Arts scholars Richard Kirwan and Tony Lloyd). The first of three BSR scholars’ introductory talks took place on 30 October. The following night, Fine Arts scholars were introduced to curator Fabio Campagna, a contact that would bear fruit throughout the year. The Fine Arts exhibition Figure of 8 — supported by Dalla Vedova Legal Practice — opened on 12 December 2008. It included works by Joseph Bedford, Penelope Cain, Dragica Carlin, Katie Cuddon, Celia Hempton, Rebecca Madgin, Ruth Murray, Eddie Peake and Liz Rideal. The exhibition (and the other two that were to follow in March and June) had many visitors from the other foreign academies and the Rome art community. Thanks to the support of our lawyer Gianmatteo Nunziante, on 18 December Penelope Cain, Katie Cuddon and Liz Rideal exhibited new works in different media, collectively entitled Avvolgere Svolgere at the Nunziante Magrone Legal Practice’s Christmas cocktail party. On 23 December, Fabio Campagna organised Bites, an outdoor video projection of works by Penelope Cain and Liz Rideal at ESC Atelier Occupato in the San Lorenzo district. In January, Joseph Bedford, Katie Cuddon, Celia Hempton, Eddie Peake and Liz Rideal visited Bologna as guests of Marianna Di Giansante at her Æmilia Hotel, with a view to the third exhibition of BSR Fine Arts scholars in the hotel’s Spazio Cultura.
Above: Studio 7, Via Antonio Gramsci 61, Rome 2009, by David Spero (Photoworks Fellow) Right: Decycle: Abstract, 2009, by Amikam Toren (Sargant Fellow) On 30 January Joseph Bedford, Penelope Cain, Katie Cuddon, Celia Hempton, Eddie Peake and Liz Rideal exhibited at RialtoSantambrogio in an event entitled 123456 — Craack!, curated by Fabio Campagna. The show involved drawings, video projections and a performance by Katie Cuddon, Celia Hempton and Eddie Peake, wearing costumes created by Eddie. On 3 February Eddie, Katie and Celia reworked this performance as Tracce, walking from the Pantheon to a stage set in the Temple of Hadrian, on the final night of the yearly Alta Roma fashion show. The March Fine Arts exhibition, Our Lives are Full of Remarkable Coincidences, including Sara Barker, Joseph Bedford, Gabriella Bisetto, Luke Caulfield, Katie Cuddon, Celia Hempton, Cath Keay, Eddie Peake and James Robertson, opened on 13 March. The exhibition was the subject of a lecture given by Jacopo Benci to a group of Contemporary European Art History students from Università della Tuscia. Accademia delle Accademie, involving 28 artists from eight foreign academies, curated by Shara Wasserman, took place from 1 to 5 April at the Temple of Hadrian, as part of The Road to Contemporary Art international art fair. A new generation of British artists was brought to the attention of F I N E A R T S S C H O L A R S ’ A C T I V I T I E S a wider public through the work of BSR participants Sara Barker, Katie Cuddon, Celia Hempton and Eddie Peake. Marco Delogu, director of the annual FotoGrafia festival, invited the foreign academies to participate in the 2009 edition. David Spero, the inaugural Photoworks Fellow, represented the School. Photoworks generously supported the project by securing the shipment of David’s photographs to Rome. The exhibition David Spero: Churches, opened at the BSR on 15 May. It was the subject of a lecture given by Jacopo Benci to a group of students from the Perugia Academy of Fine Arts. On 29 May David Spero gave a talk about his work at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni, as part of the events programme of FotoGrafia 2009, and on 31 May he signed copies of his Churches monograph at s.t. fotolibreriagalleria. Also on 31 May, Jacopo Benci gave an illustrated talk at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni on the showreel programme he curated for the festival, Emotion Recollected in Tranquillity, comprising works by nine photographers/artists (seven of whom were ex–BSR scholars). Several other exhibitions involving BSR Fine Arts scholars took place in May and June. Grand Tour Bologna. The British School at Rome, II (Joseph Bedford, Katie Cuddon, 29
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