2016–17 1 Fine Arts 2016–17 Acknowledgements All works © the artists and architect Antonella Salvatore and Inge Lyse Hansen, John Cabot University, Rome Editor: Marco Palmieri Graphic design: Praline Juliet Franks, The Ruskin School of Art, Oxford Printed in Belgium by Graphius Sarah Linford, Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma, Rome Published in 2017 by the British School at Rome Ilaria Bozzi, Adriana Caneva, Martina Caruso, Eleonora 10 Carlton House Terrace Castagna, Clelia Colantonio, Marina Dacci, Adrienne Drake, London SW1Y 5AH Niccolò Fano, Marta Federici, Flavio Ferri, Bryony Harris, Jahan Khajavi, Ansel Krut, Shiro Nishimoto, Pier Paolo Pancotto, British School at Rome Marta Pellerini, Giulia Ruberti, Donatella Saroli Via Gramsci 61, 00197 Rome
Claudia Canovai, Marie-Claire Desjardin, Valeria Frezza, A charity registered in England and Wales (no. 314176) Elaine Robertson www.bsr.ac.uk Photography courtesy of the artists and architect, except: Roberto Apa (pages 5, 6, 8–11, 14–17, 22–7, 29–36, 38–41) ISSN 1475-8733 ISBN 978-0-904152-78-4
The Bridget Riley Art Foundation The Derek Hill Foundation
The Incorporated Edwin Austin Abbey with David and Pam McKee, Memorial Scholarships and The Wood Foundation
Nicholas Berwin Charitable Trust with Ms Jennifer Dowling
The donors to the Scholars’ Prize in Architecture Contents
4 Preface: Christopher Smith 7 Introduction: Marco Palmieri
Exhibitors 14 Kelly Best 16 Chris Browne 18 Caroline Cloutier 20 Gary Deirmendjian 22 Maria de Lima 24 Maria Farrar 26 Grant Foster 28 Morgan Gostwyck-Lewis 30 Peter McDonald 32 Neil McNally 34 Catherine Parsonage 36 Kate Power 38 Sinta Tantra 40 Vivien Zhang
43 Biographies 51 BSR Faculty of the Fine Arts and Staff Preface
This is my eighth and last preface to the British School National Art School, Sydney (with Jennifer Dowling); at Rome Fine Arts Catalogue, and gives me a chance the Nicholas Berwin Charitable Trust; and the William to look back, and forwards. Fletcher Foundation (NSW, Australia); as well as the The presence of artists at the BSR is more than private donors to the Scholars’ Prize in Architecture, simply a historical anomaly — it is part of our very including Bob Allies, Will Alsop, Tim Bell, Jeremy essence. The building we currently occupy began life Blake, Nicholas Champkins, Adam Nathaniel Furman, as a pavilion for British Art in 1911. The Fine Arts are Horatio and Emily Furman, Simon Gill, John Graham, written into our lease of the building, our charter and John Melvin, Steven Morant, Robert Voticky and David our mission. This breadth is one of the ways in which Wrightson. We are delighted that new residencies are we remain distinctive as an overseas research centre — joining established ones, and we are also very grateful no other of the British International Research Institutes to all those who have supported visiting artists’ talks can boast a century of supporting the highest quality and studio visits. This generosity is critical for our future, of artists, and our artists have always been themselves and for sustaining the vibrant culture of the BSR. international, and have become even more so. The As we look to the future, I am convinced that quality and innovation of work that emerges from the Fine Arts should play an increasing role in the way successive groups of artists is phenomenal. we demonstrate the importance of the BSR as part It has been a personal joy for me to be part of such of the cultural ecosystem that supports our collective a creative and exciting community, and, as happened values and helps our societies grow and transform. when I was an award-holder myself, my eyes have been The dialogue established between art and the world, repeatedly opened by the capacity of our artists to make a concentrated reflection on and engagement with us pause and focus or refocus our attention. Exposure form and substance, is a fundamental part of what to art of this quality changes the way we see the world. it is to be human. I have often been humbled by the Over the past years, we have sought to respond generosity of artists in sharing — and never more so to the immense contribution that our artists make by than in the extraordinary year of achievement — and I improving the environment in which they work. The feel immensely privileged to have been able to support studios and gallery have been renovated. We have such wonderful creativity. more artists’ talks, a more professional approach to documenting and presenting work, and we have maintained an integrated programme of events and visits. I am grateful to Jacopo Benci, Marina Engel, Stefania Gerevini, Joanna Kostylo, Sue Russell and Thomas-Leo True, who in their various capacities have done so much to foster this environment, and I wish to pay tribute to the work of Marco Palmieri in taking Fine Arts forward in recent years. The Fine Arts at the BSR receive no public funding, and it is through the extraordinary generosity of a series of trusts, foundations and individuals that we are able to support the residencies at the BSR. I would like to thank: the Arts Council of Wales (sponsored by the Welsh Government and supported by The National Lottery); The Bridget Riley Art Foundation; the Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec; the Derek Hill Foundation; the Helpmann Academy (with David and Pam McKee, and the Wood Foundation); the Incorporated Edwin Austin Abbey Memorial Scholarships; the Linbury Trust; the
4 CHRISTOPHER SMITH — DIRECTOR December Mostra Installation view, 2016
5 December Mostra Installation view, 2016
6 Introduction
Over the past four years as Visual Art Residency and and mentors. In this arena of exchange each opinion Programme Curator, I have been offered the wonderful is as valid or as questionable as an other. Views and opportunity to work with a constantly growing number opinions, whether the award-holder’s or the visitor’s, of artists, architects and filmmakers. Through the should not be accepted at face value; instead they residency programme at the British School at Rome, should be discussed, questioned, elaborated, and which sees new award-holders entering our studios possibly rejected or adopted. every three months, the dynamics and conversations I am extremely grateful to the numerous people between the numerous talented creative individuals who have come through the BSR to discuss their are in a constant and exciting state of perpetual views and opinions with our award-holders this year, flux; ideas are exchanged, works are produced, particularly to Ilaria Bozzi, Eleonora Castagna, Clelia collaborations are fostered and ambitious projects are Colantonio, Adrienne Drake, Marta Federici, Flavio developed — together with national and international Ferri, Emma Hart, Sarah Linford, Vivien Lovell, Marta institutions, galleries, museums and foundations. The Pellerini, Donatella Saroli and Pàdraig Timoney. achievements of all our award-holders, both new and The time spent at the BSR, in the studio producing old, stand as a permanent testament to the feverish work and developing nascent ideas, culminates every amount of activity that takes place here throughout three months during the three exhibitions held by our the year. award-holders, or Mostre, presented in our gallery As a renowned centre for multidisciplinary spaces. The shows offer the BSR a chance to present and interdisciplinary research, truly unique in its kind, the work produced by the award-holders during their we constantly endeavour to support and enrich the stay in Rome, and offers the Roman audience an experience of every award-holder — support that is opportunity to see and further explore what happens offered not only by the ambitious programme of events inside our walls. presented by Marina Engel and Jacopo Benci, but also The three shows were made possible by the hard through the series of visiting artists, who generously work of all our award-holders, and the continuous offer their time to visit the BSR and present insightful support of all the BSR staff. Further help was offered talks about their practice and ongoing projects. through the technical support of the Fine Art Interns: This year, we had the privilege of inviting five Claudia Canovai, Marie-Claire Desjardin, Valeria Frezza artists to stay at the BSR as our guests: Emma Hart, and Elaine Robertson. David Ryan, Ella Kruglyanskaya, Pàdraig Timoney The BSR residency programme, together with all and Marc Camille Chaimowicz. Each artist presented the artists, architects and filmmakers that become part a talk (in the case of Marc Camille Chaimowicz in of this growing family, will continue to support creative conversation with Roger Cook; and in David Ryan’s dialogue, research, collaboration and production, ideals case, a wonderful performance inspired by his previous that have been and continue to remain central to what stay at the BSR as an award-holder), offered studio visits the BSR represents. to our artists, and enjoyed a more informal encounter with our award-holders and scholars over dinner. The intimate atmosphere which is created around a dinner table is unique — and in my opinion vital — in creating meaningful connections between artists, curators, writers, gallerists and collectors. It offers a brief but truly enjoyable moment for spontaneous conversations. Dialogue, therefore, is central to the art of creative production. Through a series of studio visits, which are offered throughout the year with numerous members of the creative world, award-holders are offered the chance to explore and test out their ideas with peers
MARCO PALMIERI — VISUAL ART RESIDENCY AND PROGRAMME CURATOR 7 March Mostra Installation view, 2017
8 March Mostra Installation view, 2017
9 June Mostra Installation view, 2017
10 June Mostra Installation view, 2017
11 Exhibitions
December Mostra 9–17 December 2016 Kelly Best; Maria de Lima; Maria Farrar; Grant Foster; Catherine Parsonage; Vivien Zhang
March Mostra 17–25 March 2017 Caroline Cloutier; Morgan Gostwyck-Lewis; Neil McNally; Catherine Parsonage; Sinta Tantra; Vivien Zhang
June Mostra 15–24 June 2017 Chris Browne; Gary Deirmendjian; Peter McDonald; Catherine Parsonage; Kate Power; Sinta Tantra; Vivien Zhang
12 Exhibitors Frame Watercolour on paper, dimensions variable, 2016
14 KELLY BEST Untitled Fresco on wood, 14 × 19 cm, 2016
15 Sub Oil on canvas, 54 × 26 cm, 2017
16 CHRIS BROWNE 17 Hidden Behind the Corner Digital print on adhesive vinyl, 270 × 300 cm, 2017
18 CAROLINE CLOUTIER 19 link — bsr Site specific intervention, cotton thread, 1.6 km total length, 2017
20 GARY DEIRMENDJIAN 21 Maria I Oil on canvas, 70 × 100 cm, 2016
22 MARIA DE LIMA Rose Sequence (Growths) Oil on canvas, 120 × 80 cm, 2016
23 Al Dente Oil on canvas, 130 × 180 cm, 2016
I Disagree Oil on canvas, 96 × 126 cm, 2016
24 MARIA FARRAR Medusa Watercolour on paper, 23 × 31 cm, 2016
25 Vanity Charcoal, glue, pigment and oil on canvas, 28 × 36 cm, 2016
26 GRANT FOSTER Beside the Boot, the Truncheon Rests Charcoal, pigment, glue and oil on canvas, 135 × 180 cm, 2016
27 Corner Photograph Photograph, 30 × 20 cm, 2017 (collaboration with Katherine Waters)
28 MORGAN GOSTWYCK-LEWIS Coloured Cornice Installation, dimensions variable, 2017
29 Rome Drawings Acrylic gouache on A4 paper and cigarette boxes, 2017
30 PETER MCDONALD Painting and Sculpture Show Acrylic gouache, card, pencil shavings and glass on cigarette box, 2017
31 Pariolini Setting Fire To A Street Sign Outside The British School At Rome As The Police Drive Past Without Stopping Oil and bread on canvas, 300 × 197 cm, 2017
32 NEIL MCNALLY Jacques Rancière Stopped Talking Because Someone Fainted During His Speech At The Rome Conference On Communism At The Galleria Nazionale D’Arte Moderna (In the Future There Will Be No Painters, Only Men and Women Who Paint) Oil on canvas, 250 × 118 cm, 2017
33 Carry Me from Garbo’s Indian ink, pastel and oil pastel on Fabriano paper in perspex frame, 66 × 111 cm, 2017
34 CATHERINE PARSONAGE Campari Spring Coloured pencil, pastel and watercolour on Fabriano paper in perspex frame, 66 × 111 cm, 2017
35 Insidious Distance Timber, cardboard, bubblewrap, papier mâché, gesso, paint and fabric, dimensions variable, 2017
36 KATE POWER a condition for doing things together (with Catherine Parsonage) Single channel video, 20 minutes 11 seconds, 2017
37 The Piranesi Effect (Screen) Tempera on linen, four panels 60 × 180 cm, 2017
38 SINTA TANTRA Tuca Tuca — Spring Time in Rome Tempera on linen, 130 × 180 cm, 2017
39 Paths Stamper (Drape) Mixed media on canvas, 46 × 51 cm, 2016
40 VIVIEN ZHANG Velvet Murmurs Oil and acrylic on canvas, 140 × 160 cm, 2016
41 Biographies KELLY BEST CHRIS BROWNE Creative Wales–BSR Fellow, October–December 2016 William Fletcher Foundation Scholar, April–June 2017 www.kellybest.co.uk [email protected]
Education Education 2004–7 BA (Hons), Fine Art, Kingston University 1993–4 Florence Academy of Art, Florence 1989–92 Julian Ashton Art School, Sydney Selected one person exhibitions 2017 Vanishing Point, Oriel Davies, Newtown Selected one person exhibitions 2016 All Walls Are Interrupted, Plymouth Arts Centre, 2016 Arch and Aperture, Frances Keevil Gallery, Sydney Plymouth 2011 Addition, Frances Keevil Gallery, Sydney 2015 Sunder, g39, Cardiff 2006 Capriccio, Frances Keevil Gallery, Sydney Velum, Eastside Projects, Birmingham 1998 Antipodes, Wanganui Arts Complex, Whanganui 2014 Between 590 and 610, Oriel Davies, Newtown Out Lines, Chapter, Cardiff Selected group exhibitions 2017 June Mostra, British School at Rome, Rome Selected group exhibitions 2016 Archibald Portrait Prize, Sydney 2017 Drawing Biennial, Drawing Room, London 2007 Salon de Refuses, Sydney 2016 December Mostra, British School at Rome, Rome 2005 Kedumba Drawing Prize, Sydney National Eisteddfod of Wales, Abergavenny 2015 Exeter Phoenix Open, Exeter Phoenix, Exeter Selected awards and residencies Exercise x, Gallery Footings, Bute Park, Cardiff 2017 William Fletcher Foundation Scholarship, British Drawing, Oriel Myrddin, Carmarthen School at Rome 3-Phase; Jerwood Encounters (joint show with 2014 Blackheath Art Prize Georgie Grace), Jerwood Space, London 2008 Blackheath Art Prize 2014 From Here and There, Elysium Gallery, Swansea 2005 Blackheath Art Prize From Here and There, Clara Hatton Gallery, 1992 Alice Bale Travelling Scholarship, Melbourne Colorado Oriel Davies Open, Oriel Davies, Newtown Teaching Everything Else is Just the Weather (joint show 2006–17 Figure and portrait painting, Julian Ashton with Mark Houghton), MDP / Castlefield Gallery, Art School Manchester Everything Else is Just the Weather (joint show with Mark Houghton), Arcadecardiff, Cardiff CAROLINE CLOUTIER Unit(e), g39, Cardiff Québec Resident, January–March 2017 2013 National Eisteddfod of Wales, Denbigh www.carolinecloutier.net 2012 John Moores Painting Prize, Walker Art Gallery, [email protected] Liverpool Education Selected awards and residencies 2006–9 BFA, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal 2016 Creative Wales–BSR Fellowship, British School 2002–5 College Degree in Fine Arts, Cégep Montmorency, at Rome Laval Arts Council Wales Large Production Grant Do Without, residency with Georgie Grace, Selected one person exhibitions Low Parkamoor, Cumbria (Jerwood Charitable 2016 Contre-espaces: déploiements, Centre VU, Foundation / Jerwood Visual Arts) Ville de Québec Arts Council of Wales Research and Development Contre-espaces: emboîtements, Galerie Nicolas Grant Robert, Montréal 2014 Mark Devereux Projects, residency with Mark 2014 Vertige, Centre Clark, Montréal Houghton, Manchester Vertige: les miroirs, Galerie Nicolas Robert, Montréal 2011 Salt, Coastal Currents Residency, Hastings Les sabliers, Centre Diagonale, Montréal 2012 Dédale, Centre Circa, Montréal 2010 Apprivoiser le familier, Action Art Actuel, Saint- Jean-sur-Richelieu
Selected group exhibitions 2017 March Mostra, British School at Rome, Rome 2016 Secret Places, Kunstsammlung des Landes OÖ, Linz
BIOGRAPHIES 43 Les temps suspendus, Stewart Hall Gallery, Collections Pointe-Claire Musée National des Beaux Arts du Québec; private collections Illusion, Nicolas Robert Gallery, Montréal 2015 Moving Still / Still Moving, Art Mûr Gallery, Montréal 2014 The Antichamber, Feature Art Fair, Toronto GARY DEIRMENDJIAN Symposium d’art in situ, Les jardins du précambrien, National Art School, Sydney, Resident, April–June 2017 Val-David www.garo.com.au La sculpture en temps et lieux, Centre Circa, Montréal Education 2013 Autour de l’UQAM, Galerie d’Este, Montréal 2006 MFA, Sculpture, National Art School, Sydney Anagramme d’une chaise, MC Plateau-Mont-Royal, 1990 BEng (Aeronautical), Honours, University of New Montréal South Wales, Sydney 2012 Lieux communs, Warren G. Flowers Gallery, Montréal Selected one person exhibitions 4th Drawing Biennale, Musée des Beaux-Arts, 2016 age of stuff, invited artist, LS2 — project space, Mont-Saint-Hilaire Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney Des choses suspendues, MC Côte-des-Neiges, 2014 BLUT & BRODEN — gunter christmann, Montréal installation, Cellblock, National Art School, Sydney Lieux communs, MC Plateau Mont-Royal, Montréal warehouse mutant — balaclava, site specific 2010 Comme une poignée de flèches, MC Plateau- installation, Pink William, Balaclava, Melbourne Mont-Royal, Montréal 2013 MICROVIDS, touring exhibition produced by dLux MediaArts, Hervey Bay Regional Gallery, Hervey Bay Selected awards and residencies 2012 MICROVIDS, Artereal Gallery, Sydney 2017 Quebec Residency, British School at Rome 2011 skin, Artereal Gallery, Sydney 2016 International artist in residence, Kunstsammlung 2010 ECG, Project Space, Artereal Gallery, Sydney des Landes OÖ, Linz gary deirmendjian — a survey of a broad practice, International Residencies Grant, Canada Council University of Western Sydney, Nepean Campus, Artist in residence, Sagamie, Alma Sydney Art in the Park, residency program by The Rooms 2009 gary deirmendjian works — short experimental (St. John’s), Gros-Morne National Park, Terre-Neuve movies, invited artist, LOOP Project Space, Development Grant, Conseil des Arts et des Lettres Melbourne du Québec 2007 gary deirmendjian, Esa Jaske Gallery, Sydney 2014 Échange d’artistes et d’atelier-résidence entre 2006 a wrestling with art — monumental expressions, le Québec et la Haute-Autriche Atelierhaus Master’s Exhibition, NAS Gallery, National Art Salzamt, Linz School, Sydney Project Grant to Visual Artist, Canada Council for the Arts Selected group exhibitions International Artist in Residence Grant, Cultural 2017 ‘High Noon’. Mostra degli artisti delle Accademie Office, Upper-Austria Government di Francia, Germania, Gran Bretagna, Spagna, Studios and Residencies Grant, Conseil des Arts Stati Uniti e Svizzera, Accademia di Belle Arti et des Lettres du Québec di Roma, Campo Boario Campus, Rome Nomination: Best Exhibition / Artists Run Center June Mostra, Britsh School at Rome, Rome Category — Montréal, Gala des arts visuels MINING PYRITE: the Armory Exhibition 2017, Symposium d’art in situ, Les jardins du précambrien, invited artist, Newington Armory, Sydney Fondation Derouin, Val-David Olympic Park 2013 Development Grant, Conseil des Arts et des Lettres thinkers & dreamers, invited artist and exhibition du Québec creator, Stanley Street Gallery, Darlinghurst 2012 Travel Grant, Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du 2016 Sculpture by the Sea — Bondi, finalist, Bondi Québec to Tamarama coastline, Sydney Artist in residence, Sagamie, Alma HIDDEN — Rookwood Cemetery Sculpture Walk, Summer residency, Circa, Montréal finalist, Rookwood Cemetery, Sydney 2011 Research residency, Centre d’Artistes Atelier Graff, Artereal 10 th Anniversary Exhibition, invited artist, Montréal Artereal Gallery, Sydney Grant for Up-and-coming Artists, Conseil des Arts 2015 Sculpture by the Sea — Aarhus, major public et des Lettres du Québec installation, Aarhus 2009 Special Project Grant, Association Facultaire des 2014 Bildhauen, invited artist, Dominik Mersche Gallery, Étudiants en Arts, UQAM Sydney 2007 Development and Internship Grant, OQWBJ Subject to Ruin, invited artist, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney
44 BIOGRAPHIES 2013 Sculpture by the Sea — Aarhus, finalist, major National Silk Cut Award for Linocut Prints, finalist, public installation, Aarhus Glen Eira City Gallery, Melbourne 2012 EXCAVATION: the Armory Exhibition 2012, invited Sculpture 2004, invited artist, Maunsell Wickes artist, Newington Armory, Sydney Olympic Park Gallery — Woollahra, Sydney Sculpture in the Vines, invited artist — ambassador, 2003 East Coast Sculpture Show — 8th, finalist, Thursday Wollombi, Hunter Valley Plantation, Ballina UWS Sculpture Award & Exhibition, finalist, less is more, invited artist, BMG Art, Adelaide University of Western Sydney, Macarthur Campus, Sculpture in the Vines, invited artist, Tallavera Grove Sydney Vineyard, Hunter Valley 2011 Sculpture by the Sea — Aarhus, invited artist, major 2002 Sculpture by the Sea — Bondi, finalist, Bondi public installation, Aarhus to Tamarama coastline, Sydney Willoughby Sculpture Prize, finalist, Willoughby Woollahra National Small Sculpture Prize, finalist, Incinerator Art Space, Sydney Woollahra Council Chambers, Sydney Sculpture by the Sea — Bondi, finalist, Bondi to Tamarama coastline, Sydney Selected awards and residencies 2010 Sculpture by the Sea — Bondi, finalist, Bondi 2017 National Art School, Sydney, Residency, British to Tamarama coastline, Sydney School at Rome Sculpture at Sawmillers, finalist, Sawmillers Reserve, McMahons Point, Sydney Awarded numerous private and public commissions and Cranium, invited artist, Artereal Gallery, Sydney invitations to create major public installations and interventions MFA Survey Exhibition 2010, NAS Gallery, internationally. Please see website for details National Art School, Sydney Sculpture 2010, invited artist, Brenda May Gallery, Teaching Sydney 2012 Sessional Lecturer, National Art School, Sydney 2009 Art at the Armory, invited artist, Newington Armory, Sydney Olympic Park, Sydney Collections Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe, invited artist, Represented in numerous institutional and private collections. Cottesloe Beach, Perth Please see website for details 46, Folk 1, invited artist, SNO — Contemporary Art Projects, Sydney 2008 57th Blake Prize, finalist, NAS Gallery, National Art MARIA DE LIMA School, Sydney Abbey Fellow in Painting, October–December 2016 3D Painting, invited artist, Conny Dietzschold www.mariadelima.co.uk Gallery, Sydney [email protected] UWS Sculpture Award & Exhibition, finalist, University of Western Sydney, Macarthur Campus, Education Sydney 2012–15 PgDip, Fine Art, Royal Academy Schools, London 2007 Sculpture by the Sea — Bondi, finalist, Bondi 2005–8 BA (Hons), Painting, Camberwell College of Arts to Tamarama coastline, Sydney (UAL), London McClelland Sculpture Survey & Award 2007, finalist, McClelland Gallery, Langwarrin Selected one person exhibition National Photographic Portrait Prize, finalist, 2016 An Exit Soft to the Touch, ANDOR, London National Portrait Gallery, Canberra 2006 The Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award, Selected group exhibitions finalist, Werribee Park, Melbourne 2016 December Mostra, British School at Rome, Rome ELEMENTS, invited artist, Rushcutters Bay Gallery, Modest Villa Immense Versailles, Kinman Gallery, Sydney London 2005 Sculpture by the Sea — Bondi, finalist, Bondi to Rose, Tower, The Kennington Residency, London Tamarama coastline, Sydney 2015 Outpost Members’ Show Selected by Nik Void, East Coast Sculpture Show — 10th, invited artist, Outpost, Norwich Thursday Plantation, Ballina Royal Academy Schools Show, Royal Academy The Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award, Schools, London finalist, Werribee Park, Melbourne 2014 A Union of Voices, Horatio Jr, London Paradise, Purgatory & Hellhole, invited artist, Conscientia: Latin American Consciousness, Lloyds Powerhouse Museum, Sydney Club, London 2004 UWS Sculpture Award & Exhibition, finalist, IVI Art Party, IVI, London University of Western Sydney, Macarthur Campus, 2013 Art (After), ANDOR, London Sydney 2011 Curfew Tower Residency Show, Catalyst Arts, Belfast
BIOGRAPHIES 45 The Day of Saint George, Home Front, London GRANT FOSTER 2010 By Means of Matter, Generator Projects, Dundee Rome Fellow in Contemporary Art, October–December 2016 2009 Filed of Sets — Pt I Conjunction, Peckham Rye www.grantfoster.org Multi-storey Car Park, London 2008 Witness / N14, L’Avant Rue, Paris Education Furnished, 122 Lyndhurst Way, London 2010–12 MA, Fine Art, Painting, Royal College of Art, London Afterword, The Hall, London 2001–4 BA, Fine Art, Painting, University of Brighton
Selected awards and residencies Selected one person exhibitions 2016 Abbey Fellowship in Painting, British School at Rome 2017 Ground, Figure, Sky, Tintype, London 2015 Agnes Ethel Mackay Travel Award 2016 Popular Insignia, Galleria Acappella, Naples 2014 Peter Rippon Travel Scholarship, New York 2015 Salad Days, Ana Cristea Gallery, New York 2012 Trelex Residency, Trelex 2014 Holy Island, Chandelier Projects, London 2010 Catalyst Arts Curfew Tower Residency, Curfew Generator Projects Residency, Dundee Selected group exhibitions Field Resident Artist, London 2016 December Mostra, British School at Rome, Rome The Classical, Transition Gallery, London SPORE, Kennington Residency, London MARIA FARRAR Miami Vice, Transition Gallery, London Derek Hill Foundation Scholar, October–December 2016 2015 Carnival Glass, Block 336, London CURE, Transition Gallery, London Education The Alembic of Creative Thought, Westminster 2016 MFA, Painting, Slade School of Fine Art, University Waste, London College London Figuratively Speaking, Marcelle Joseph Projects, 2012 BFA, Fine Art, University of Oxford Heike Moras Gallery, London 2014 The Threadneedle Prize, Mall Galleries, London Selected one person exhibitions East London Painting Prize, Strand House, London 2017 Straits, Mother’s Tank Station, Dublin Rx for Viewing (with Jesse Wine), Ana Cristea 2016 Marine, Supplement Gallery, London Gallery, New York 2014 Philippine Embassy, London 2013 Art Britannia, Miami Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Spike Island, Selected group exhibitions Bristol and ICA, London 2016 December Mostra, British School at Rome, Rome Implausible Imposters, Ceri Hand Gallery, London Paris Internationale, Mother’s Tankstation, Paris Creekside Open, selected by Paul Noble and Ceri Sunday Art Fair, Supplement Gallery, London Hand Pink Density, Clovis XV, Brussels 2012 Backwards Man, CGP London 2014 Curious Struggle, Arthouse1, London 2011 Memory of a Hope, Ceri Hand Gallery, Liverpool Debate, Curate, Collaborate, The Greenroom The Future Can Wait presents Polemically Small, Gallery, Krakow Torrance Art Museum, Torrance 2010 Between a Hole and a Home, James Taylor Gallery, Selected awards and residencies London 2016 Derek Hill Foundation Scholarship, British School 2009 Royal Academy Summer Show, London at Rome 2008 John Moores 25, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool Melville Nettleship Prize, University College London Gwen John Scholarship, University College London Selected awards and residencies 2013 Artist in residence, Mill Hill County High School, 2016 Rome Fellowship in Contemporary Art, British School London at Rome 2010 John Farthing Anatomy Prize, University of Oxford 2010 Leverhulme Bursary, London 2008 John Moores 25, Prizewinner, Liverpool Collections Magdalen College Library, Oxford; Government Art Collection UK; Collections Mother’s Tank Station, Dublin; private collections Private collections; Royal College of Art
46 BIOGRAPHIES MORGAN GOSTWYCK-LEWIS 2008 First Prize Winner, John Moores Contemporary Scholars’ Prize-winner in Architecture, January–March 2017 Painting Prize [email protected] 2000 Andre Dunoyer de Segonzac Award
Education Collections 2014 BArch (AIA), Cooper Union, New York Government Art Collection; 21st Century Museum of 2010 MA, Architecture (RIBA), University of Cambridge Contemporary Art, Kanazawa; Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Selected one person exhibition 2014 Natural Error, Cooper Union, New York NEIL MCNALLY Abbey Fellow in Painting, January–March 2017 Selected group exhibitions www.neilmcnally.com 2017 March Mostra, British School at Rome, Rome [email protected] 2014 Open City, Cooper Union, New York Education Selected awards and residencies 2009 MA, Painting, Royal College of Art, London 2017 Scholars’ Prize in Architecture, British School 2005 BA, Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, University at Rome of London 2014 Menschel Fellowship, Cooper Union, New York 2013 Cooper Mack Fellowship, Cooper Union, New York Selected exhibitions 2011 President’s Medal Commendation for Dissertation, 2017 March Mostra, British School at Rome, Rome RIBA, London 2016 Lle Celf, Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Cymru, 2010 David Wye Roberts Memorial Prize for the Abergavenny Highest Distinction in Thesis Writing, University 2015 Localism, mima, Middlesbrough of Cambridge A Brief Flirtation with Corduroy, School of Art, Birmingham City University, Birmingham Teaching 2014 Roy Chubby Brown is Coming Home for Christmas, 2016–17 Critic, University of Westminster, London Constantine Gallery, Teesside University, Critic, London Metropolitan University, London Middlesbrough 2016 Studio Trip Assistant, Royal College of Art, London Far Off Things, Cardiff Contemporary, Cardiff Change at Crewe, The Studio, Llandudno 2012 Residency, La Plate-forme, Dunkerque PETER MCDONALD The Belgian Synesthesia Association, Motorcade / Abbey Fellow in Painting, April–June 2017 Flashparade, Bristol www.katemacgarry.com Working-class Housing in 19th-century Britain, Flock Gallery, European Centre for Photographic Education Research, University of Wales, Newport 1997–2000 PgDip, Royal Academy Schools, London The Man Don’t Give a Fuck, Motorcade / 1993–5 BA (Hons) Sculpture, Central Saint Martins School Flashparade, Bristol of Art, London 2011 The Institute of Mental Health is Burning, Newport Museum and Art Gallery, Newport Selected one person exhibitions Painterly Effluvia, 36 Lime Street, Newcastle and 2017 Mushrooms of Language, Kate Macgarry, London Norman Rea Gallery, University of York 2011–12 Visitor, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Nothing Gold Can Stay, Angelika Studios, High Kanazawa Wycombe 2009 Art on the Underground, public commission for ... so schon?, Nassauscher Kunstverein, Wiesbaden Southwark Station, London TVOD, Transition Gallery, London Face Value, Newport Museum and Art Gallery, Selected group exhibitions Newport 2017 June Mostra, British School at Rome, Rome 2010 Hell in a Handcart, Opposite 48 Hoxton Square, 2016 Roppongi Art Night, More Art Museum, Tokyo London Making and Unmaking, Camden Arts Centre, Heliotrope, Vulpes Vulpes, London London Stay Lucky, Centre for Recent Drawing, London 2007 Like Colour in Pictures, Aspen Art Museum, 2009 CrASH, 110 Warner Road, London Colorado PALIMPSEST, 29 Thurloe Place, London Through the Wall, A Foundation, Rochelle School, Selected awards and residencies London 2017 Abbey Fellowship in Painting, British School RCA Show One, Royal College of Art, London at Rome
BIOGRAPHIES 47 Selected awards and residencies Honeymoon, The Triangle Space, Chelsea School 2017 Abbey Fellowship in Painting, British School at Rome of Art and Design, London 2014 Wheatley Fellowship, Birmingham City University, 2012 RCA Secret, Henry Moore Gallery, London Birmingham BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, 2013 Artist in Residence, Teesside University, London, Wolverhampton, Glasgow Middlesbrough Axisweb Developing Writing on the Contemporary Selected awards and residencies Visual Arts 2016–17 Sainsbury Scholarship in Painting and Sculpture, 2012 Transfert 2012 Residency, La Plate-Forme, British School at Rome Dunkerque 2015 Villa Lena Fellowship, Villa Lena, Palaia Blueprint 2012 Curators Award, Motorcade / 2012–14 Basil Alkazzi Scholarship, London Flashparade, Bristol 2012 Residency, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris 2009 Oberon Book Illustration Award 2008 Paris Studio Residency, Cité Internationale des Arts, Teaching Paris 2012–15 Visiting Artist, Manchester Metropolitan University 2007 Worshipful Company of Painter-Stainers Award Villiers David Travel Award Winner of Celeste Art Prize Public Online Vote Prize KATE POWER Helpmann Academy Resident, April–June 2017 Collections katepowerartist.com Private collections worldwide [email protected]
Education CATHERINE PARSONAGE 2009–14 Bachelor of Visual Arts (First Class Honours), South Sainsbury Scholar in Painting and Sculpture, October 2016– Australian School of Art September 2017 www.catherineparsonage.com Selected one person exhibitions [email protected] 2016 Slipping Down, BLINDSIDE, Melbourne Things Between You and Me, Contemporary Art Education Centre of South Australia: Project Space, Adelaide 2011–13 MA, Painting, Royal College of Art, London 2015 Silent Sigh, Seventh Gallery, Melbourne 2009–11 BA, Fine Art, Manchester Metropolitan University all that effort and desire, Fontanelle Gallery, Adelaide Selected one person exhibitions 2016 Catherine Parsonage: GRANPALAZZO, Selected group exhibitions Bosse and Baum, Zagarolo 2017 June Mostra, British School at Rome, Rome Catherine Parsonage, Art Rotterdam, House Holding is Next to Knowing, Sister Gallery, of Egorn, Rotterdam Adelaide 2015 a wrist that turns, House of Egorn, Berlin Mothership, Fontanelle Gallery, Port Adelaide Track, Adelaide Central Gallery, Adelaide Selected group exhibitions 2016 Once There Was There Wasn’t, NARS Foundation 2017 June Mostra, British School at Rome, Rome Gallery, Brooklyn, New York Full for it: Catherine Parsonage & Tomaso De Luca, Major Tender, Contemporary Art Centre of South Garbo’s, Rome Australia, Adelaide Paris is Burning, Garbo’s, Rome Co-Curator of Vote For Me at FELTspace, March Mostra, British School at Rome, Rome Fontanelle Gallery and Format Gallery, Adelaide Le nouveau voyeurisme, Hotel Contemporary, Milan The Five Hour Show, The Icelandic Association 2016 December Mostra, British School at Rome, Rome of Visual Arts, Reykjavik 2015 Rhythm, Movement, Caesura: Vesta Kroese Interface, Gallery Central, Perth & Catherine Parsonage, Lychee One, London 2015 Unsettle, Paper Mountain ARI, Perth 2014 Bloomberg New Contemporaries, World Museum, Helpmann Academy Graduate Exhibition, Liverpool Helpmann Academy, Adelaide Manchester Contemporary: Rogue Project Space, 2014 Grid Festival, Dymaxion Lab, Adelaide Granada Studios, Manchester 2013 Ustopia, FELTspace, Adelaide Alex Mackin Dolin, Catherine Parsonage, Amalia Sydney Contemporary Art Fair, Sydney Ulman, Spazio Cabinet, Milan Bigger Than Me, Light Square Gallery, Adelaide 2013 I DID DID I, ASC Gallery, London 2012 Format Always Wins, Format Festival, Adelaide 21st Century & Design RCA — 2013, Christie’s, The Universe ... or Nothing, Format Collective London Gallery, Adelaide
48 BIOGRAPHIES Roseanne Angry, Format Collective Gallery, Adelaide Essence of a Thing, House of St Barnabas, London Drawn In, Seedling Art Space, Blackwood Nick Hornby & Sinta Tantra, Choi and Lager 2011 Tooth and Nail Grand Opening Exhibition, Tooth Gallery, Cologne and Nail Gallery, Adelaide 2011 Dynamic, Maximum, Tension, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool Selected awards and residencies 2010 Politics of Seduction, Stanley Picker Gallery, 2017 Helpmann Academy Residency, British School Kingston University, London at Rome Arsenic Fantasy, Gaya Fusion Gallery, Bali 2016 NARS Foundation Residency, Brooklyn, New York 2009 Real Phoney, Monika Bobinska Gallery, London SIM, Samband Ilsenskra Myndlistarmanna (The 2008 A Good Time and a Half!, commissioned by The Association of Icelandic Visual Art), Reykjavik Southbank Centre, London Adelaide Visual Art Critics Emerging Artist Award Carclew Project and Development Grant round 1 Selected group exhibitions Helpmann Academy Grant round 1 2017 ‘High Noon’. Mostra degli artisti delle Accademie 2015 Helpmann Academy Grant rounds 1 and 2 di Francia, Germania, Gran Bretagna, Spagna, Carclew Project Grant round 2 Stati Uniti e Svizzera, Accademia di Belle Arti 2014 Chancellor’s Letter of Commendation, South di Roma, Campo Boario Campus, Rome Australian School of Art, University of South June Mostra, British School at Rome, Rome Australia Identify Your Limitations, Acknowledge your Constance Gordon Johnson Prize for Sculpture Periphery, Vitrine Gallery, Basel Changing Perspective, Jogja National Museum, Yogyakarta SINTA TANTRA March Mostra, British School at Rome, Rome The Bridget Riley Fellow, January–June 2017 Quotidian, Pearl Lam Gallery, Shanghai www.sintatantra.com I Lost my Heart to a Spaceship Trooper, Griffin [email protected] Gallery, London 2016 Lost and Found: Place, Space and Identity, World Education Trade Centre, Jakarta 2003–6 PgDip, Fine Art, Royal Academy Schools, London Painting Now, Riccardo Crespi Gallery, Milan 2000–3 BA, Fine Art, Slade School of Fine Art, University 2015 Infinity in Flux, ART | JOG | 8, Yogyakarta College London Inspired by Soane, Sir John Soane’s Museum, London Selected public art commissions 2014 Bend Sinister, i-CAN, Yogyakarta 2017 1947, commissioned by Folkestone Triennial, What You See is What You See, Sinta Tantra and Folkestone Carsten Fock, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London Pallio Drappallone, commissioned by Comune Gatekeeper, William Holman Gallery, New York di Siena, Siena 2013 ICAD, Indonesia Contemporary Art and Design, The Sound of Colour, commissioned by St Paul’s Jakarta Way Medical Centre, London The Fine Line, Identity Gallery, Hong Kong 2016 A Means of Liberation, commissioned by Newnham Nick Hornby & Sinta Tantra: Collaborative Works, College, Cambridge Canary Wharf, London 2015 Songdo, commissioned by the South Korean 2012 Confined, NEST, The Hague Government, Songdo 2011 Apocalypstick, The Nunnery Gallery, London Sensory Garden, commissioned by Bristol Royal Infirmary Hospital, Bristol Selected awards and residencies The Eccentricity of Zero, commissioned by Royal 2017 The Bridget Riley Fellowship, British School at Rome British Society of Sculptors, London 2015 Shortlisted for the Jerwood Contemporary Painting 2015 Greater Reality of Elsewhere, commissioned Prize by Locwus International, Swansea 2014 International Development Fund, Art Council UK 2012 Together Yet Forever Apart, commissioned and British Council by Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool 2012 First Prize, Painting and Decorating Industry Award A Beautiful Sunset Mistaken for a Dawn, The Royal British Society of Sculptors AHRBS commissioned by Canary Wharf, London 2010 Shortlisted for the Jerwood Contemporary Painting Prize Selected one person exhibitions 2009 British Council Grant 2016 A Romance of Many Dimensions, Pearl Lam Gallery, Courvosier ‘The Future 500’ in partnership with Hong Kong The Observer Newspaper 2015 Fantastic / Chromatic, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, 2007 Arts Council England Grant London Westminster Civic Award, Public Arts
BIOGRAPHIES 49 2006 The Deutsche Bank Award in Fine Art Mapping in Memory, House of Egorn, Berlin The Gordon Luton Award, The Worshipful Company 2014 Saatchi New Sensations 2015, Victoria House, of Painter-Stainers Trust London 2005 Michael Moser Award 2003–6 Paul Smith Scholarship at The Royal Academy Selected awards and residencies of Arts 2016–17 Abbey Scholarship in Painting, British School 2002 Henry Moore Sculpture Fund Award at Rome 2014–15 The Chadwell Award (Residency), London Collections 2014 Shortlisted, East London Painting Prize 2015, Benetton Collection; Government Art Collection UK; various London private international collections Shortlisted, Saatchi New Sensations, London Winner, Riverlight Award: large-scale commission artwork in association with Futurecity, St James, VIVIEN ZHANG and the Royal College of Art, London Abbey Scholar in Painting, October 2016–June 2017 Awardee, Drake’s fashion house collaboration, www.vivienzhang.com London 2013 Residency, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris Education 2009 Awardee, Andor Scholarship Award, Slade School 2014 MA, Painting, Royal College of Art, London of Fine Art, University College London 2008 BA, Fine Art, Slade School of Fine Art, University College London Teaching 2014 Visiting Artist, Slade School of Fine Art, University Selected one / two person exhibitions College London 2017 Vivien Zhang and Thomas van Linge, The Ryder, Visiting Artist, Goldsmiths, University of London London Vivien Zhang, Monteverdi, Castiglioncello del Collections Trinoro Aspen Collection, London; Chadwell Collection, London; Solo Presentation, MiArt, Milan Royal College of Art, London; St James Group, London; 2016 South of Meaning: Travis Jeppesen and Vivien Swarovski Archive Zhang; accompanying interview with Hans Ulrich Obrist, House of Egorn, Berlin Cavity Drift, Galerie Huit, Hong Kong 2015 Surf the Anodyne: the Chadwell Award 2014–15 Exhibition, The Rum Factory, London Deeper Bite: Teresita Dennis & Vivien Zhang, Lychee One, London
Selected group exhibitions 2017 Group Presentation, Art Basel, Basel ‘High Noon’. Mostra degli artisti delle Accademie di Francia, Germania, Gran Bretagna, Spagna, Stati Uniti e Svizzera, Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma, Campo Boario Campus, Rome June Mostra, British School at Rome, Rome All as Long Distance Neighbours, SOYUZ, Pescara March Mostra, British School at Rome, Rome 2016 December Mostra, British School at Rome, Rome Cue Collision, House of Egorn | London Lounge, London Trembling Surfaces, Long March Space, Beijing Beyond Borders, Blain | Southern, London Sunny Side Up!, Rook & Raven, London Paper.Publications.Performance, Lychee One, London 2015 Visions from a New Generation: Celebrating 165 (Swarovski commission), Lane Crawford, Shanghai Repeat / Spiral, Renke Art, Hangzhou East London Painting Prize 2015, The Rum Factory, London
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