Annual Report 2008-9 - The British School at Rome

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,
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