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Cent'anni a Roma: 100 Years of Abbey Artists at the BSR. Opens 4/11/26 at the British School at Rome

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In 1996–97, Alexandra Baraitser was awarded the nine-month Abbey Scholarship in Painting at the British School at Rome. During her residency, she studied the city’s cultural heritage, creating works in response to Roman frescoes and architecture.

Since then, Baraitser has continued to explore the relationship between painting, architecture and the built environment. Drawing on twentieth-century modernist design and the visual language of domestic interiors, her paintings examine the shifting boundaries between figuration and abstraction.

Nearly thirty years after her time in Rome, Baraitser’s solo exhibition, 𝑰 𝑱𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝑮𝒐𝒕𝒕𝒂 𝑫𝒐 𝑰𝒕, is now on view at Tiderip in London. Bringing together a new body of paintings alongside an earlier work from 2006, the exhibition offers a perspective on the continuity and evolution of her practice.

Baraitser will also participate in Cent’anni a Roma: The Abbey Awards, 1926–2026, a centenary exhibition at the British School at Rome bringing together works by Abbey Award alumni from across generations, alongside archival material celebrating the Awards’ hundred-year history.

𝗔𝗹𝗲𝘅𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗿𝗮 𝗕𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗶𝘁𝘀𝗲𝗿
𝑰 𝑱𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝑮𝒐𝒕𝒕𝒂 𝑫𝒐 𝑰𝒕
7 October – 7 November 2026
Tiderip, 17 Percy Street, London W1T 1DU

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@susiegreen_ 🗝️ Takeover day 5

For my final takeover post I’m sharing works I made in Rome this year while I was an Abbey Fellow @abbeyawards at @britishschoolatrome.

In Rome, my research began with the ornate excess of Baroque frescoes, but quickly evolved into something more immersive: a journey through a “body of Rome.” From Bernini’s ‘Ecstasy of Saint Teresa’ to the illusionistic ceilings of the Chiesa del Gesù, I explored mouths, thresholds, and interiors spaces where bodies dissolve, shift, and re-form. Back in the studio, these encounters inspired me to paint “Baroque Machines”- ornate fantasy structures designed to hold and transform the exhausted body, offering moments of relief, pleasure, and metamorphosis.

Thanks to @martapellerini @eloisefornieles and all new friends I met in Rome.

These works are now on view in London at ‘Wabi Sabi : Untangling the Meaning of Beauty’ group exhibition curated by Marcelle Joseph at Paul Smith Space, Mayfair. Do visit if you’re in London, the show runs until 14 September.

Thanks to Marcelle for having me takeover her account this week, it’s been a pleasure sharing my work and process 💋

‘Angel’, 2026, acrylic and oil on canvas, 200 x 150cm

Installation, British School at Rome

‘Sacred Relations’, 2026, watercolour on paper, 38 x 28cm

‘Ecstasy with Eyes Closed’, 2026, watercolour and pencil crayon on paper, 38 x 28cm

‘Baroque Machine’ (II), 2026, watercolour on paper, 24 x 19cm

‘Origin of Glory’, 2026, watercolour on paper, 24 x 19cm

‘Baroque Machine (I)’, 2026, watercolour on paper, 24 x 19m

‘Deep Body’, 2026, watercolour on paper, 24 x 19cm

Photos: Luana Rigolli
Courtesy of British School at Rome
Spring Open Studios, 2026

#marcellejoseph
#susiegreen
#curatorssupportingartists
#collectorssupportingartists
#womensupportingwomen

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🏡Meet the artist: Danny Leyland

Abbey Scholar @abbeyawards Danny Leyland @danny_leyland has spent his residency collecting images of houses, cabins and shelters - spotted in mosaics, museum models and postcards found in a Swedish flea market - building a visual language around what it means to withdraw from the world, and the impossibility of ever fully doing so.

His project, "Conjugations of Displayed Images," moves through Etruscan hut urns, archaeological shelters and the idea of the 'cabin album', while staying rooted in the present.

🔗 Read Danny's blog and discover more about his research via the link in bio!

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Details of my Abbey Fellowship Award at The British School at Rome from Jan - March 2026 are now online at the Abbey Awards website. So it goes…
British artist David Osbaldeston’s work moves fluidly between drawing, print, painting and collage to explore power relations between the personal and systemic.

Extract from David’s ‘Meet the artists’ BSR blog ….further info see link in bio

“What became evident was a need in the studio to position each pair of paintings with photo documentation as posters in a bid to close the gap between the work and its wider context”

The artist would like to express warmest thanks to The Abbey Council and all at The British School at Rome for the facilitation and support in the realisation of new work.

@britishschoolatrome
@abbeyawards
@mattsgallerylondon
@mcrschart_arg

Images courtesy of Luana Rignoli and BSR. #davidosbaldeston #abbeyawards❤️

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💫 Meet the Artist: Susie Green 💫

Abbey Fellow @abbeyawards Susie Green @susiegreen_ (January–March 2026) reflects on her residency at the BSR in a new blog—sharing how her time in Rome reshaped her research and artistic practice.

Working across painting, performance, and sound, Susie creates vivid, colour-saturated worlds where feminine figures claim power. Her work draws on themes of dress, fetish, and disguise, staging bodies on the edge of transformation—caught between pleasure, tension, and release.

In Rome, her research began with the ornate excess of Baroque frescoes, but quickly evolved into something more immersive: a journey through a “body of Rome.” From Bernini’s 'Ecstasy of Saint Teresa' to the illusionistic ceilings of the Chiesa del Gesù, Susie explored mouths, thresholds, and interiors—spaces where bodies dissolve, shift, and re-form. Back in the studio, these encounters inspired her “Baroque Machines”—imagined, ornate structures designed to hold and transform the exhausted body, offering moments of relief, pleasure, and metamorphosis.

🔗 Read Susie’s blog and discover more about her work via the link in bio!

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Second side of the mural, as the first one, includes my analogue photography, this one of light and shadow interplay, an abstract composition I found on a wall in Stockport's carpark, and another photograph of the powerful river Goyt near the Torrs shot from the Millenial bridge in New Mills where we are lucky to live.
@shaun.azrak responded to them in his unique style of painting and marking.

One last thank you to @abbeyawards @stockportcouncil and of course @shaun.azrak

This is just a beginning of a beautiful journey.

Art for everyone ✊️ Public art for life ✊️

#abstractart #abstractartists #abstractmural #mural #muralart

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An incredible week of painting mural, through the rain, wind, sunshine, delicious lunches and dinners and a sea of coffee 💥

#abstractart #abstractartists #abstractmural #mural #artprize

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What a journey that was!

Our collaborative abstract mural SYMBIOSIS, which combines my photography and @shaun.azrak painting is finished!

You can view it when visiting Stockport city centre. It's in a passage of Deanery way leading to Underbank, opposite @merseywayworkshop (thank you for the coffee!)

So proud of us as it hasn't been an easy ride!
First one of many (hopefully) for us as @anomalyartstudio 💥

First of all, massive thank you to my partner in crime @shaun.azrak for all your hard work and mentorship, I couldn't do it without you.

Thank you to @abbeyawards for selecting us and continuously putting faith in us as we were looking for the right wall.

And, of course, a huge thanks to @stockportcouncil for being so open-minded and granting us this canvas, as well as all the staff at the @merseyway shopping centre who were incredibly helpful every step of the way. Your support means a lot to us.

You can check out our mural feature on Abbey Awards website

https://abbey.org.uk/stockport-mural

#abstractart #abstractmural #abstractartists #mural #abstractmag

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💫 Meet the Artist: David Osbaldeston 💫

Following the Spring Open Studios 2026, Abbey Fellow David Osbaldeston @david.studio.o @abbeyawards reflects on his residency at the BSR in a new blog. During his time in Rome from January to March, his research has unfolded through an ongoing exploration of perception, language, and the layered narratives of the city.

Working across drawing, printmaking, photography, collage, and painting, David’s practice examines the tension between seeing and reading — reworking familiar forms into something re-animated and open to reinterpretation. His works emerge through processes of editing, translation, and re-making, resulting in what he describes as ‘flat sculpture’.

Rooted in his experience of Rome, David’s research engages with the city as a space of overlapping histories and visible power structures, where diversions — both literal and metaphorical — shape how we navigate and understand urban space.

🔗 Read David’s blog and discover more about his residency journey via the link in bio!

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EX ROMA VI is on Thu-Sun until 15 March. On the final day there will be a talk at 3pm, all welcome! APT Gallery, 6 Creekside, SE8 4SA.

There are 16 artists in the show. Here is just a selection of some of their works, I’ll post more later. My work is the large trompe-l’œil painting, History Repeating Itself, green marble with tiny knights climbing out of its bullet holes.

Some of the other artists whose works appear in the photos include:
@lynncfulton @jeffmcmillanstudio @selmaparlour @beabonafini @luke_p_burton @michael_coppelov, Jeffrey Dennis, Richard Burton, Héloïse Delègue, and Claudio Pestana.

Thank you @vanessajackson1934 @sachacraddock @dannyrolph14 and @mw_watkins for making it all happen! @abbeyawards @aptstudiosgallery @britishschoolatrome #art #painting #contemporaryart

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I’m currently at @britishschoolatrome 🏛️ Undertaking a 3 month painting fellowship with @abbeyawards. Feeling so grateful for the time, space, and recent delights.

Thank you to the selection panel for awarding me such a heavenly experience where I can reflect on recent work, share conversations with all the brilliant artists and scholars here and develop new paintings in conversation with time spent in Rome. Plus take Italian lessons and be provided with 3 meals a day. I’ve never experienced anything quite like it.

Here’s a few glimpses in and around my studio, research, and inspirations. I couldn’t resist striking a pose under the Bridget Riley ceiling mural in the entrance to the academy.

There’s an open studio event 4-5th March. If you happen to be in or close to Rome, come and visit🌀☀️☀️I’m making on a series of new paintings under the working title ‘Baroque Machine >>>>

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Deadline looming!

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