Current Exhibitions
tempo reale
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| ‘Tempo reale’ presents – for two days only – works created ‘in real time’ (hence the exhibition title) at the British School at Rome during September 2008 by the artists in residence. Three of them (Catherine Keay, Amanda Marburg, Liz Rideal) are current BSR Fine Arts scholars. The works will be displayed in the BSR Gallery. The British School at Rome Fine Arts programme is directed by Jacopo Benci. |
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| Christopher Cook has been working in monochrome for ten years. His images hover between painting and drawing, and between representation and abstraction, often with reference to resonant space or place. For this exhibition images that relate microscopy to notions of the Baroque have been made in locally sourced water-based pigment. Christopher Cook was born in North Yorkshire, England, and studied at the Royal College of Art in London. Recent solo exhibitions include Today Art Museum, Beijing, Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, and Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan. Collections include the British Museum, London, the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, and the Metropolitan Museum, New York. |
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| Cath Keay is a sculptor who graduated from Glasgow School of Art and Edinburgh College of Art and has had solo shows in Britain and Germany. She now works in Newcastle upon Tyne, where she is currently completing a PhD. Her works are often the result of collaborative processes with external forces – animals, gravity or crystal growth – through which she supersedes the hand of the artist in the final form of the sculpture. Cath Keay is the 2008-09 Arts Council England Helen Chadwick Fellow at the British School at Rome and at the Ruskin School in Oxford. During her fellowship at the BSR she is researching ‘colonie estive’ buildings of the 1930’s and creating sculptural responses to them. |
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| Richard Kirwan’s most recent paintings employ simple, hard-edged motifs to create compositions that hover between the potential for construction or collapse. Using a limited palette of vivid, saturated colours, these works are filled with unsettled geometric repetition and optical after-effects – a balancing act between chaos and control. Richard Kirwan has exhibited his work internationally; recent solo exhibitions include Modern Manners, Galerie Hollenbach, Stuttgart, Germany (2007); Broken Promise, Marksman Gallery, Reading, UK (2006); and Devil’s Detail, Hornsey Gallery, London (2005). In 2008, Kirwan’s work was included in the 25th John Moores Exhibition of Contemporary Painting at The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. He lives and works in London. |
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| Tony Lloyd’s interest in the relationship between personal and fictional experiences of the world is clearly represented in his paintings. The broad perspectives of mountains, highways and urban landscapes are cinematic in their scope, while his treatment of the objects within them is decidedly photographic. Lloyd’s archetypal images allude to history, film, and mythology and appear to be scenes excised from a wider narrative. Since gaining his Masters degree at RMIT University Melbourne in 2000, Tony Lloyd has shown widely in Australia and the Netherlands. In 2007, Lloyd was an Australia Council resident at The British School in Rome, and has just returned to the BSR for a one month residency while en route to the Netherlands. His works are held in public and private collections in Australia, Japan, Europe and USA. Lloyd lives and works in Melbourne and Amsterdam. |
| Amanda Marburg’s paintings are the end product of a strange process that encompasses photography, plasticine sculpture and painting, a kind of Wallace & Gromit meets El Greco. Her images are initially sourced when she takes photographs from films or television; she then sculpts the image in her willfully crude fashion and then in turn photographs the sculptures before beginning the painstaking process of transferring the final image to canvas. The sense of the other-worldly that Marburg achieves comes in part from the disparate techniques she applies. She creates bizarre mises-en-scène with her models, lighting them with candles to emphasize a kind of gothic sensibility. Amanda Marburg completed a Bachelor of Fine Art (Painting) at the Victorian College of the Arts in 1999. Since then she has had many solo and group exhibitions throughout Australia. She is currently an Australia Council Resident at The British School at Rome. Amanda lives and works in Melbourne. |
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London artist Liz Rideal works in a broad range of media ranging from bronze, mirror, tapestry to etched glass. Here she shows photographs of resinous globules together with a painting responding to the Cosmati mosaics in the San Giovanni cloisters. Made in oil on wood with gold leaf, it asserts itself; red and positive, gold and gaudy - simultaneously low key and grandly imposing. |
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For further details, please contact Alessandra Giacinti, Fine Arts Research Assistant <finearts@bsrome.it> |
