Artist in residence event Abbie Vickress (University of the Arts London), "Reimagining the Narrative(s) of Contested Cultural Artefacts" Abstract: UAL Research Resident Artist Abbie Vickress will talk about the residency and the ways that this experience has evolved her PhD research on how graphic design influences the interpretation of contested cultural artefacts in museums and […]

Ilenia Cipollari performing with Musarc, photo by Yiannis Katsaris Artist Researcher in Residence event Ilenia Cipollari (BSA/University of the Arts London), "Sounding the Archive: Fragments in Emily Penrose’s Own Voice. British School at Athens, 1887–2025" Sounding the Archive is an intimate hybrid performance-lecture inspired by the travel diaries of historian Emily Penrose during her time […]

Artist in Residence talk Tina Rowe (University of the Arts London/BSA), Artist in Residence Abstract: UAL Research Resident Artist Tina Rowe will talk about the residency and the ways that this experience has evolved her approach to her PhD. She will discuss her use of the archive and the questions that have arisen from working […]

BSA & the Hellenic Centre event Artist’s Talk by Returning Resident Joshua Whitaker: Acid History – Into the Silver Screen Abstract: A talk/performance by artist Joshua Whitaker presenting writing, photography, and film developed during his stay as Arts Researcher in Residence at The British School at Athens (BSA) in partnership with Camberwell, Chelsea and Wimbledon […]

Image Credit: Joshua Whitaker, ‘Acid History’ film still (2023) Joshua Whitaker (University of the Arts London, BSA Artist in Residence), ‘Acid History‘ Abstract: ‘Acid History’ is neither a record of psychedelic culture nor a catalogue of LSD experience. ‘Acid’ is deployed within the seminar, as Jeremy Gilbert has theorised it, as an adjective— a term […]

Dr Mo Throp (Associate Researcher Chelsea College of Arts), "Understanding Fine Art practice as Research" and W. K. Lyhne (BSA Arts Bursary Award Holder 2022), "Can the Image of the Agnus Dei be remade using Maternality?" Mo Throp will discuss how the process of the introduction of PhD programmes for Fine Art has brought particular […]

  Onyeka Igwe is the 2019 BSA Arts Bursary holder and returns from a residency in Athens to share her encounters with the archive. Igwe researches the colonial imagination, its knowledges and influence on the archive and then uses a methodology, critical proximity, to create moving image works that attempt to activate archive material in […]