The next exhibition of The British School at Rome Fine Arts programme, directed by Jacopo Benci, will open on Thursday, 17th March 2005 at 6.30PM and will continue until 9.30PM. PLURAL2 will present the works of seven resident artists and one architect, offering an excellent opportunity to see current trends in visual art and architecture in Great Britain and Australia. The exhibition will be open from the 18th to the 24th March, Monday- Saturday, 4.30-7.00 PM and by appointment.

KATE COTCHING
“I work primarily with paper, ink and a very sharp knife, laboriously cutting and reducing flat sheets of paper into three dimensional forms. This paper-cutting process mirrors the conceptual ideas surrounding my work, examining place, landscape and the things we regard as precious.” [KC]
Kate Cotching (Australia Council Resident Artist, January-March 2005) is a Melbourne based artist who graduated in painting at RMIT University in 1997. She has recently exhibited at the National Gallery of Victoria, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, The Melbourne International Art Fair and West Space Inc. She was the recipient of the Deacons Award 2000 and has undertaken studio residencies in Beijing, China and 200 Gertrude Street Melbourne.

TOBY GLANVILLE
“I am interested in time and space. How we occupy space, how we stand and how we look; how concerned we are about these things – and in being so concerned, how vulnerable we make ourselves: nothing is braver than to allow oneself to be photographed.” [TG]
Toby Glanville (Rome Scholar in the Fine Arts Feb-July 2005) is a photographer-artist who lives and works in London. His publications include The British Land Collection (2005), Family (Phaidon Press) 2005, Actual Life (Photoworks, 2003), Then Things Went Quiet (MW Projects/Frieze Art Fair, 2003), One Hundred Photographs: A Collection by Bruce Bernard (Phaidon Press, 2002), Bread & Stone (The British Council, 1995). Collections in which his work is held include The Victoria & Albert Museum, London; The British Council; British Land; Bruce Bernard Collection; National Portrait Gallery, London.

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).

DES LAWRENCE
“Des Lawrence works in drawing, painting, and text, often focusing on aspects of history such as his ongoing series exploring the social demonstrations of 1968. He is currently working on a large group of obituaries, drawn in silver.” [DL]
Des Lawrence (Abbey Scholar in Painting, October 2004-June 2005) studied at Glasgow School of Art and Goldsmiths’ College. Recent shows include All the Time in the World, Rhodes and Mann, London, 2002; Jerwood Drawing Prize, London, 2003; Between Letters and Abstraction, Kendal, 2004.

STEVEN MACIVER
“My work is an ongoing investigation of line, surface and structure fuelled by my interest in urban space.” [SMI]
Steven MacIver (Sainsbury Scholar in Painting and Sculpture, October 2004-September 2005) graduated from Grays School of Art, Aberdeen in 2002 (BA (Hons) Fine Art, 1st Class), and The Slade School of Fine Art in 2004 (MA, Fine Art). He won 8 awards since 2002 including The Guthrie Award and the John Murray Thomson Award (Royal Scottish Academy) and the Scottish International Education Award. He has illustrations published in the Journal of the History of Collections (2004). His exhibitions include the Royal Scottish Academy 177th & 178th annual exhibitions, Gallery 10 Glasgow, and Central Space, London.

MIKE MARSHALL
“I’m interested in what is already known, small events, familiar situations – the background noise in which the things that we consider remarkable happen. The videos and the photos attempt a kind of amplification, inevitably things end up changing along the way but sometimes a re-evocation can bring a sense of closeness that at the time seemed impossible.” [MM]
Mike Marshall (Rome Scholar in Fine Arts, January-March 2005) is currently completing a PhD at Goldsmiths’ College. He regularly exhibits both in England and internationally, including Tate Gallery Triennial, Sydney and Gwanju Korea Biennales, Union and VTO Galleries in London, and Tate Gallery St Ives. He has a forthcoming solo show at the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham later this year.

HAYLEY NEWMAN
“Her current interest in ‘Rubbernecking’ describes the act of slowing down, craning the neck and straining to look and involves a series of trips to places reported in the daily news.” [HN]
Hayley Newman (Arts Council of England Helen Chadwick Fellow, September 2004; January-March 2005) is a London based artist and a part-time lecturer at Chelsea College of Art and Design. Her solo exhibitions include The Daily Hayley at Matt’s Gallery in London, the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham and the Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva (2001-3). Publications include Performancemania (Matt’s Gallery, 2001), Daily Hayley, Shanghai Week and Chicagoland (all 2004).

ALVIN C.O. YIP
“Is the extinguishment of voices inherent to our architectural production? And what if Apollodorus was not murdered? To liberate from conventional bidding thus an verdetermination 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 designing an urban game in prospects of diagrammatics, evolutionary methodologies and the architecture of synergy. Project exhibitions in Barcelona, Helsinki, London, and Istanbul in July 2005. Graduated from the Architectural Association London, a lecturer at HKAC, besides buildings procured in Toronto, Manchester and Hong Kong.