Fine Arts Awards

Fine Arts Awards

Amba Sayal-Bennett, Lor, 2022.
Lara Smithson, Unnamed saint, 2022.
Barbara Walker, Marking the Moment 6, 2020-2022.

National Art School, Sydney Residency

The BSR is proud to partner with the National Art School, Sydney to offer a transformative three-month residency in Rome for an emerging Australian artist. Located in the lush Valle Giulia, just north of Rome’s historic centre, the BSR offers studio accommodation, shared meals at our communal table, and the rare opportunity to live and work in an international, interdisciplinary community of artists and scholars.

Residents benefit from dedicated time and space to focus on their practice, while engaging with Rome’s extraordinary cultural and artistic heritage. The program fosters creative development through immersion in the city, dialogue with peers, and access to the BSR’s world-class research and exhibition resources.

Eligibility: Open to recent MFA/DFA graduates (within five years) and staff of NAS; applicants must be Australian citizens or residents.

Application deadline: Late June

Click here to learn more and apply.

Latest Events

Latest Events

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Lecture | In Search of the pontifex maximus in Quattrocento Rome
In the roughly 1000 years after its supposed rejection by the emperor Gratian as ‘unlawful for a Christian’, the pagan title pontifex maximus was only rarely used
14 January 2026
18:00 - 19:30
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Lecture | Urban regeneration in the 21st Century: from idea to reality
London, like many European cities, underwent major changes after the second world war, including large-scale construction of new housing using modernist ideals, the decline of
21 January 2026
18:00 - 19:30
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Material Environments | The Water-mills on the Janiculum and the Gothic Siege of Rome
This is the third in a series of lectures on Material Environments, hosted jointly by the American Academy in Rome and the British School at Rome over the academic
29 January 2026
18:00 - 19:30

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