Examples in Sculpture

During a three month residency at the British School at Rome, Mark Dunhill and Tamiko O'Brian produced work for a group exhibition and publication. O’Brien undertook the Fine Art Rome Scholarship, a three month residency at the British School at Rome with Mark Dunhill. The proposal for the residency was to devise ways for Dunhill & O’Brien to make new work collaboratively in response to the particular situation at the British School and the wider context of Rome. One work focused on the problem solving devices employed to achieve a process of genuinely shared workload and authorship; another work involved visiting all of the cultural institutions in Rome to negotiate filming on site while other research was undertaken in to the function and style of the plinths in the various Sculpture galleries of the Museums in Rome. During the third month an exhibition of recent Rome Scholars and a book launch of the annual Rome Scholars catalogue was held and Dunhill & O’Brien showed their work, incorporating an installation of sculpture, photography and video; a video screening; and a wall based sculpture, alongside works by the five other artists resident in the school. The opening night and week-long exhibition was attended by approximately 750 visitors. The video work ‘GATES’ was later screened at the Villa Massimo, The German Academy used in an illustrated talk at the British Council by Jacopo Benci, Artistic Director of the BSR, and shown in the exhibition ‘Responding to Rome’ at the Estorick Collection, London. The British School at Rome provided a residency fee that covered the cost of travel; full bed and board; a studio; a researcher’s museum pass; and art materials for the duration of the stay. The British School at Rome also arranged and paid for the transportation of all of the work back to the UK