British School at Rome Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Research Residency Awarded

Excited to announce that Sarah Casey is the 2025 recipient of the Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Research Residency at the British School at Rome.

The award, funded by the Wilhelmina Barns Graham Trust, supports 6 weeks residence at the British School at Rome and is open by competitive process to artists working in all media of British or Commonwealth nationality and resident in Scotland.

Sarah Casey will take up the residency from September 25th 2025 and will post updates on this news page and also via instagram at @drawingthedelicate

The residence will be used to develop work with glacial residues in Italy and in the context of the BSR, thinking about environments over the border from where Sarah was recently working in Switzerland. The research in Rome will involve a number of activities including looking at accounts of alpine landscapes recorded by British artists travelling to Rome in the BSR collections, developing my practical knowledge of working with mineral pigments, going on the hunt for traces of the glacial past near Rome and learning about how the changing climate is affecting the recovery of archaeology in this region.

Thanks to the Wilhelmina Barns Graham Trust for their support.

Image: The British School at Rome building, Wikimedia Commons.