The following awards were made in 2010

Abbey Scholarship

Tala Madani is an American painter with an Iranian background who approaches masculinity as a structural, sculptural ad sociological aspect of painting. She intends to use her time in Rome to explore how Italian culture and society filters machismo in relation to her experiences in Iran and USA. She will be working on a new body of work which will be inspired and underpinned by her researches in this field and also through her study of Fascist architecture and sculpture and of the use of the grotesque, religious narrative and the treatment of space in the paintings and frescoes of the late medieval and early renaissance periods.

Abbey Fellows

Varda Caivano is an Argentinian painter living in the UK. She will be using her time to experiment with producing larger scale works than has been her practice. She will be researching the conventions regarding the representation of space during the transition between the Medieval and Renaissance periods. In particular she will be studying paintings created and displayed in Rome with reference to the translation from small scale to large scale.

Michael Finch lives and works in London. He wants to use his time in Rome to structure his studio research and to undertake active work in constructing a digital image bank in and around the city of Rome and then reworking the images in the studio through painting. He also intends to visit the region around Naples relative to the anthropologist Ernesto de Martino's study.

David Smith has been exploring the expressive possibilities of hybrid ornamental and decorative forms for many years and his recent body of work represents the culmination of that research. His three month Abbey Fellowship will allow him the time to explore fully the progress and gains in his recent work. While in Rome he will be researching Baroque Art and Architecture and in particular the decorative hybrids of Raphael.

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