THE BRITISH SCHOOL AT ROME

Bridget Riley Fellow 2021-2022

Saint  2021

Pencil, soft pastel, paint on reflective fabric. Installed at The British School at Rome December Mostra

The reflective drawing and costume SAINT is constructed from an Alberto Fabiani pattern from the 1970s. Gold, curling hair covers the costume with organs exposed as holes and absences within the fabric. The dress appears as if set on fire, emerging from a mandorla like opening within a sea of fur. The work references multiple saints’ fates by fire and also miraculous appearances through flames and the earths own seismic openings.

The costume was first displayed in Rome for the December Mostra and has been worn in the film UNNAMED SAINT which imagines a dead saint’s return to earth to find her body desecrated and scattered across the geography of Italy.

Unnamed Saint 2022 excerpt

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Saint  2021 The British School at Rome

Saint  2021 Installed at Una Vetrina, Rome, 2022

Unswept 2023

Pencil, soft pastel, aluminium and imitation gold leaf on reflective fabric with walnuts

Relics 2022

Pencil, soft pastel, imitation gold leaf on reflective fabric with walnuts and sublimation prints on fabric

Relics 2022

Pencil, soft pastel, imitation gold leaf on reflective fabric with walnuts and sublimation prints on fabric

Just a means of touching distance 2022

Paint, beads gloves, ribbon on moire silk & pencil on poly-filler lungs & pencil, oil pastel, paint on reflective fabric

Just a means of touching distance 2022

Paint, beads gloves, ribbon on moire silk & pencil on poly-filler lungs & pencil, oil pastel, paint on reflective fabric

Illumination 2022

Pencil on reflective fabric