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The next exhibition of THE BRITISH SCHOOL AT ROME’s Fine Arts Programme, directed by Jacopo Benci, will open on Thursday, 16th
June 2005, 6.30-9,30 PM. It will present the works of the seven artists and one architect currently resident, as well as one piece
by Susanna Strati (Australia Council Resident Artist, July-September 2004). PLURAL3 offers a wide-ranging survey of current
trends in visual art and architecture in Great Britain and Australia. The exhibition will be open until 25th June (Monday-Saturday,
4.30-7.00 PM and by appointment). Also opening on Thursday 16th June 2005, 7.30PM onwards at THE ROMANIAN ACADEMY, Piazza José de San Martin 1, 00197 Roma (tel. 06 3201594, e-mail: <spaziaperti2005@yahoo.it>), is Spazi Aperti, an artistic event involving –and at the same time interpreting– the spaces of the Romanian Academy with works by about 50 scholars from the foreign academies in Rome –including Juliet Haysom, Des Lawrence, Steven MacIver, Claude Temin-Vergez, and Alvin Yip from The British School at Rome– as well as several Italian artists. Spazi Aperti will be open until 30 June (Tuesday-Saturday, 5.00-8.00 PM). |
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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. |
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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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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. |
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STEVEN MACIVER |
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ROSEMARY O´ROURKE «The integrity of the handmade object and the investment of time and labour are important to my work. I employ a range of textile techniques, including manipulating the forms of my pieces through the pull of repeated running stitching on cloth. My work is driven by a belief in the human need to make things and to engage with the world through crafting objects.» [RO´R] ROSEMARY O´ROURKE (Australia Council Resident Artist, April-June 2005) is an artist who makes carefully crafted textile objects. She lives and works in Hobart, Tasmania, where is currently completing a Masters degree at the University of Tasmania. Her most recent solo exhibition was shown at Craft ACT, Canberra, in September 2005. She exhibits regularly in Australia and has been included in touring group exhibitions overseas. |
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CLAUDE TEMIN-VERGEZ «Fluid, abstract forms congregate to form complex compositions, which acknowledge their debt to the Baroque, and consequently, the decorative. Claude Temin-Vergez´s paintings take this once pejorative term as their starting point, a dissection of critical pleasure. Slowly built-up with enamel, gloss and acrylic paint her images recall the domestic and familiar. Yet the morphing of the shapes into ´painting beings´ adds a strange twist. Their tactile quality and spatial construction let them over between ornament and art, Alice in Wonderland landscapes and gestural abstractions.» [CT-V] CLAUDE TEMIN-VERGEZ (Abbey Fellow in Painting, April-June 2005) studied at Central St Martin´s and the Royal Academy of Art. Graduated in 2001. She has exhibited widely, with a solo exhibition at Houldsworth Gallery, London, in 2002. She was Stanley Picker Fellow in 2002-2003 at Kingston University, London. She lives and works in London. |
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MILLY THOMPSON «I am interested in how much artists define themselves by the way they´re interpreted and mythologized by critics, dealers, curators and collectors, and about how important it is for an artist to have the gift of social chit chat, natural good looks and a relaxed personal style.» [MT] MILLY THOMPSON (Sargant Fellow, April-June 2005) was a member of the London based artist group BANK from 1994 to 2003. BANK showed widely and were hugely influential during mid-late 1990´s London. Milly is now attempting to redefine herself as a solo artist with a recognizable style that translates easily into a saleable product. |
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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. |
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SUSANNA STRATI «The piece Memento di un Bracciante is intended as a memento of the southern Italian landscape, and my grandfather. Its contour gives reference to the cypress and olive trees of the region, as well as human lungs and breath. The poem inscribed on its surface was written by my paternal grandfather sometime after World War II, and is a narrative of the hardship confronted by the working class of Sant´Agata del Bianco in Reggio Calabria. It also appeared in a Calabrese newspaper/magazine around that time. Memento di un Bracciante is a tribute to the ongoing struggles of the people of Calabria, and implies an infinite presence of those that have passed on.» [SS] SUSANNA STRATI (Australia Council Resident Artist, July-September 2004) is an artist whose work currently explores themes pertaining to the impermanence of the human body, and ways we memorialize the body. Her three-dimensional anatomically inspired objects are often realised in wax and metal. Susanna lives and works in Sydney Australia. She is a graduate of the College of Fine Art, University of New South Wales. |
