Gallery Artist Michele Fletcher has been awarded the ROSL Hospitalfield Scholarship 2008.
The core aim of the Royal Over-Seas League, founded in 1910, is to promote friendship, understanding and mutual respect between the peoples and cultures of the Commonwealth. The ROSL’s Royal Charter specifically direct that the League ‘….encourage the arts amongst young people of the commonwealth’. To this end in the sphere of the visual arts, and annual exhibition was established in 1984.
Since 2000 the ROSL Annual Exhibition has concentrated on five artists from five different Commonwealth countries (or former Commonwealth countries), one from each of the five continents: Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australia and Europe. Countries and regions change each year.
Since 2000 the ROSL Annual Exhibition has concentrated on five artists from five different Commonwealth countries (or former Commonwealth countries), one from each of the five continents: Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australia and Europe. Countries and regions change each year.
In order to make work for the Scholarship, winning artists are awarded a month-long residency in Hospitlafield House, Arbroath. Overlooking the North Sea, Hospitalfield House surrounded by its own small estate, is situated a mile from Arbroath on the east coast of Scotland. Originally built during the thirteenth century as a hospital, the building was dramatically altered between 1850 and 1890 by Patrick Allan Fraser, who bequeathed it to the Patrick Allan Fraser Trust devoted to 'Education in the Arts'.
Throughout the 20th century the estate hosted an annual summer school for the most outstanding students at Scotland’s four art colleges. Today Hospitalfield is a place of study for students of the arts from all over the world. Short and long term visual arts residencies have increasingly become a vital part of the programme at Hospitalfield.
Throughout the 20th century the estate hosted an annual summer school for the most outstanding students at Scotland’s four art colleges. Today Hospitalfield is a place of study for students of the arts from all over the world. Short and long term visual arts residencies have increasingly become a vital part of the programme at Hospitalfield.
