Plural1
BERNICE DONSZELMANN, JULIET HAYSOM, STEVEN MACIVER, |
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Opening: Thursday, 16th December 2004, 6.30-9.30 PM The next exhibition of THE BRITISH SCHOOL AT ROME FINE ARTS PROGRAMME, directed by Jacopo Benci, will open on Thursday, 16th December 2004 at 6.30pm and will continue until 9.30pm. The exhibition, called PLURAL1, will present the works of the resident artists and architect, offering an excellent opportunity to see a diversity of current trends in visual art and architecture. The exhibition will be open from the 17th to the 22nd December, Monday-Saturday, 4.30-7.00 PM and by appointment. THE BRITISH SCHOOL AT ROME For further information, please contact: |
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Bernice Donszelmann « If architecture draws and defines space for us, ahead of us, I'm interested in that way that our movement through buildings, contingencies of their use or a superficial phenomenon like wall drawing can start to rewrite those spaces.» [BD] Bernice Donszelmann (Abbey Fellow in Painting, October-December 2004) graduated from Chelsea College of Art & Design in 1992. Exhibitions and projects have included the Gasworks Gallery, London, the Abbey Mural project for the Royal London Hospital and a text based collaboration, "Surface/Connections" at the Holden Gallery, Manchester Metropolitan University. She is currently teaching on the Art Theory department at Chelsea College of Art. |
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Juliet Haysom «My recent research has been initiated in an inquiry into the problem of seeing and believing. I am interested in the relationship between the visual experience and imagination, and, primarily, in the modes and methods employed in the representation of both. » [ JH] Juliet Haysom (Sainsbury Scholar in Painting and Sculpture, October 2004-September 2005) was born in 1978. She completed an MPhil in drawing and sculpture at The Royal College of Art, London in June 2004, and a BFA at The Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, University of Oxford, in 2001. During this time she has been shortlisted for the Centre Prize, RCA, 2003 and the Jerwood Drawing Prize, 2002, and has been the recipient of various awards. She has exhibited her work in several group and solo shows, including Mixed Exhibition , The Drawing Gallery, London (2004); Art of the Impossible , Centre Prize Exhibition, The Great Eastern Hotel, London; Treason: Artists in Research at the RCA , Cafe Gallery, London (2003); Jerwood Drawing Prize Show , London and other venues (2002-3). |
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Steven MacIver « My work is an on going investigation of line, colour and surface fuelled by my interest in urban and public space.» [SMI] Steven MacIver (Sainsbury Scholar in Painting and Sculpture, October 2004-September 2005) was born in 1979 in Kirkwall, Orkney. Studied at Aberdeen, Gray's School of Art (BA Hons Fine Art, First Class, 2002), and The Slade School of Fine Art, London (MFA Distinction, 2004). Recent exhibitions have included: Royal Scottish Academy 178 th Annual Exhibition, The Mound, Edinburgh; The Pier Arts Centre. Stromness, Orkney; Central Space. Hammersmith, London, 2004; Royal Scottish Academy 177 th Annual Exhibition, Edinburgh City Arts Centre, Edinburgh; Gallery 10, Glasgow, 2003. |
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Lee Maelzer « I make paintings and sometimes drawings and photographs that begin with real places and then customize them to match my own criteria and dreams.» [LM] Lee Maelzer (Abbey Fellow in Painting, October-December 2004). Lives and works in London and the north-west Scottish Highlands. Studied painting at Central St Martin's and the Royal College of Art, London. Exhibits widely in Britain and has also shown in Amsterdam, New York, Germany, Los Angeles, Tel Aviv and the Czech Republic. Has work in private and public collections in the UK, Holland, Israel, Canada and the United States. |
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Andrew Mania « I am like a collector of curiosities, or a cultural vagrant; sometimes recycling found images like old master drawings or photographs, then adding my own obsessions or dialogue. Such as Yeti's, UFO's, or birdlike swarm, that invade otherwise stable images. The work is odd and unsettling, with an irreverent nostalgia for art history. The pictures seem to be going through a state of mischief. They form clusters, spills, columns or concentrations on the wall or more likely off the wall. I am interested in how pictures can be seen as passive or active props in a given space. Within these arrangements of collections and fragments a narrative is set up. » [AM] Andrew Mania (Wingate Rome Scholar, September 2004-January 2005) has had solo exhibitions at Vilma Gold Gallery in London and has participated in significant group shows such as New Contemporaries 2000, The Jerwood Drawing Prize 2002 and the Pizza Express Prospects which he won in 2001. Current shows at Gallery Diana Stigter, Amsterdam, Room in Bristol UK (solo), Patricia Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco (solo) in January 2005. |
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Liz Williams «My interest in religious iconography and its potential for inspiration keeps me coming back to Catholic countries. Here in Rome I have saturated myself in the pleasure of beautiful things.» [LW] Liz Williams (Australia Council Resident Artist, October-December 2004) exhibits regularly and widely in Australia. She is represented in many public and private collections. She was awarded an Australia Council Artist Residency in Barcelona, 1995, and an Australia Council Travel Grant to Mexico, 1992. |
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Alvin Yip « Is the extinguishment of voices inherent to our architectural production ? And what if Apollodorus not murdered? To liberate from conventional bidding thus an overdetermination by a singular 'best', the gameboard accommodates, amplifies and provokes negotiation of urban possibilities, be the players architect, politician or foreigner. Submerging collective imagination with individual expertises we narrate/ unfold multiple histories of Rome. » [AY] Alvin C.O. Yip (Rome Scholar in Architecture, October 2004-June 2005) is currently designing an urban game, in prospects of diagrammatics, evolutionary methodologies and the architecture of synergy. Previously an external critic at CUHK and lecturer with HKAC, besides exhibitions held in Barcelona, Helsinki and London. Graduated from the Architectural Association London and made buildings in Toronto, Manchester and Hong Kong. |
