The following awards were made in 2007

Abbey Scholarship

Anthony Faroux

Anthony Faroux’s work explores memory.  It is much concerned with the interpretation of what has gone, using the nostalgia of old photographs, the witness of ruins – old and new – and the transparency of glass to shed light on the present and evoke thoughts about the future.   He is French but has lived in London for some years and has just graduated as a mature student from the Royal Academy Schools.

Abbey Fellowships

Spartacus Chetwynd

Spartacus Chetwynd (formerly Lali) is an artist who is building a reputation as a creator of live art – tableaux and art-theatrical performances of great originality.  She is interested in visiting the idyllic worlds depicted in many Roman frescoes and in working in the direct medium of fresco herself.

Michael Finch

Michael Finch is an abstract painter with an international reputation as a thinker and lecturer in the practice and discourse of contemporary art. He has been a professor at the Valenciennes Beaux-Arts for some years. Rome will feed his interest in images and iconography in the history of art and its related fields of archaeology and anthropology.

Catrin Huber

Catrin Huber makes strongly geometrical and architectural paintings on aluminium. She wants to make large-scale drawings while in Rome and to enrich her artistic vocabulary by the study of works of art – especially by Pozzo and Tiepolo – architectural drawings, frescoes, trompe l’oeil and anamorphosis.

The Abbey Harris Mural Fund

In 2007 a grant was made to Westminster Cathedral for a mural in mosaic to be created by Tom Phillips in St George’s Chapel.

Jane Reid (Administrator)
43 Carson Road, London, SE21 8HT
020 8761 7980
janereid@abbey.org.uk