Fine Arts
Fine Arts
Fine Arts awards at the BSR offer artists at different stages of their careers the superb opportunity to research and focus on their work away from normal pressures, and to use the BSR as a base to explore Rome and Italy.
From our foundation, the BSR has provided studio space for visual artists of the highest calibre to work and develop their practice in this unique, multidisciplinary community.
Today, those who win residential studio awards represent the very best of established and up-and-coming contemporary practitioners in the UK and Commonwealth: they draw on and contribute to the BSR’s uniquely lively and engaged intellectual environment to enhance their own practice and research.
Previous BSR Visual Art residents include: Phoebe Boswell, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Celia Hempton, Holly Hendry, Winifred Knights, Julian Opie, Cornelia Parker, Eddie Peake, Elizabeth Price, Laure Prouvost, Emma Talbot, Mark Wallinger and Barbara Walker.
Our residential awards offer 3 to 9 months in one of our seven catered en-suite studios.
Award holders are supported by a dedicated Visual Art Residency and Programme Curator, Marta Pellerini, who co-ordinates artists’ activities. Marta supports the artists in the development of specific projects, studio visits and open studios during their stay in Rome. The artists in residence at the British School at Rome present their developing research three times a year, in Winter, Spring and Summer. On these occasions the award-holders are able to show their work to a Roman audience, in a fruitful moment of dialogue and exchange.
Marta Pellerini also curates the BSR Fine Arts Talks Programme.
Fine Arts awards at the BSR offer artists at different stages of their careers the superb opportunity to research and focus on their work away from normal pressures, and to use the BSR as a base to explore Rome and Italy.
From our foundation, the BSR has provided studio space for visual artists of the highest calibre to work and develop their practice in this unique, multidisciplinary community.
Today, those who win residential studio awards represent the very best of established and up-and-coming contemporary practitioners in the UK and Commonwealth: they draw on and contribute to the BSR’s uniquely lively and engaged intellectual environment to enhance their own practice and research.
Previous BSR Visual Art residents include: Phoebe Boswell, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Celia Hempton, Holly Hendry, Winifred Knights, Julian Opie, Cornelia Parker, Eddie Peake, Elizabeth Price, Laure Prouvost, Emma Talbot, Mark Wallinger and Barbara Walker.
Our residential awards offer 3 to 9 months in one of our seven catered en-suite studios.
Award holders are supported by a dedicated Visual Art Residency and Programme Curator, Marta Pellerini, who co-ordinates artists’ activities. Marta supports the artists in the development of specific projects, studio visits and open studios during their stay in Rome. The artists in residence at the British School at Rome present their developing research three times a year, in Winter, Spring and Summer. On these occasions the award-holders are able to show their work to a Roman audience, in a fruitful moment of dialogue and exchange.
Marta Pellerini also curates the BSR Fine Arts Talks Programme.
The artists in residence at the British School at Rome present their developing research three times a year, in Winter, Spring and Summer. All of them take place at the BSR. On these occasions the award-holders are able to show their work to the Roman audience, creating a fruitful moment of dialogue and exchange.
Studio of Lucy Tarquinio, Winter Open Studios 2023. Photo by Luana Rigolli.
Studio of Sharon Kelly, Winter Open Studios 2023. Photo by Luana Rigolli.
Studio of Catriona Gallagher, Winter Open Studios 2023. Photo by Luana Rigolli.
Studio of Laura White, Winter Open Studios 2023. Photo by Luana Rigolli.


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Closing date for applications: 17 January 2025
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Closing date for applications: 15 January 2025
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Closing date for applications: 31 December 2024
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Closing date for applications: 31 December 2024
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Closing date for applications: 28 February 2025
In making an appointment to an award the Faculty of the Fine Arts will assess all applications using the following set of criteria:
∙ the quality of the applicant’s creative output and the appropriateness of their qualifications
∙ the extent to which the applicant’s proposal reflects the purpose of the award
∙ the viability of the proposal as a project to be carried out with support from the BSR.
In addition to these three basic selection criteria, the selectors will take into consideration the potential for the award to impact on the applicant’s creative development and will attempt to ensure that the needs and interests of the successful applicant are compatible with the facilities available at the BSR and the interests of its community.
Credit will be given to those who are no longer in full- or part-time education at the time of application.
Applications from those who have held a residency at the BSR in the previous two years (since March 2020) will not normally be considered.