ROSL ARTS

16/01/2024

WORK WITH US!

ROSL Visual Arts Curator: Deadline for applications 7 February 2024

Hours: 22.5 hours per week (3 week days per week permanent position with occasional weekend and/or evening hours)

Holiday Entitlement: 28 days per annum (17 days pro rata for 3 days per week), including Bank Holidays (increases with length of service)

Salary: £17,000 per annum

Benefits: Daily food allowance, annual clothing allowance, season ticket loan and a competitive contributory pension scheme

To apply:

Please submit a CV with a cover letter (the cover letter should be no more than two sides of A4 and include a supporting statement outlining why you want to work for the Royal Over-Seas League and how you meet the person specification) by email via the link below.

https://jobs.theguardian.com/job/8837711/rosl-visual-arts-curator-3-days-per-week-/?LinkSource=HomePage

12/12/2023

Celebrating the opening of ROSL PHOTO 23 with four of the shortlisted artists in attendance. Md. Zobayer Hossain Joati (pictured 2nd from the left), winner of the main prize was joined by (from left to right) Diwakar Redhu, Daniela Calò and Felicitas Yang as we welcomed this exciting new selection of images to the walls of ROSL Clubhouse.

ROSL PHOTO 23 is displayed in the Central Lounge until 4 February and has already proved popular amongst recent visitors and those staying at ROSL over the Christmas period. A 56 page, full colour catalogue with accompanying essays for each of the 20 images has been published in support of the exhibition and can be purchased from the main reception or online: https://community.rosl.org.uk/s/store #/store/browse/detail/a15Pz000000kXnNIAU

01/12/2023

The brilliant violinist Mathilde Milwidsky dazzled the audience with her performance of Vivaldi's Winter alongside her ensemble for the evening, the fantastic Fibonacci Quartet and Double Bassist Daniil Margulis. Performances from the Lumas Winds and Fibonacci Quartet filled the rest of the programme, delighting the audience with works by Suk, Perotin and keeping Christmas at the forefront with a very beautiful arrangement of Angels We Have Heard On High.

🎶🌟 Our Nutcracker finale was a true delight! We were thrilled to showcase the incredible talents of friends and prizewinners from recent years, coming together in a mesmerising mini orchestra rendition of Tchaikovsky's iconic suite (arranged by the brilliant Iain Farrington). 🎻✨

Thanks so much to our ensemble:

• Violin 1 - Kryštof Kohout
• Violin 2 – Luna De Mol
• Viola – Elliot Kempton
• Cello – Findlay Spence
• Double Bass – Daniil Margulis
• Harp – Oliver Wass
• Flute – Beth Stone
• Oboe – Chris Vettraino
• French Horn – Benjamin Hartnell-Booth
• Bassoon – Flo Plane
• Clarinet – Rennie Sutherland
• Trumpet – Jamie Smith
• Percussion – Joe Richards

As we wrap up this bustling year, we want to extend our warmest wishes to everyone for the festive season ahead.

🎄❄️ We can't wait to create more magical moments together in 2024. See you then! 🌟

28/11/2023

Last Friday, on the first ever National Illustration Day, Royal Over-Seas League hosted an afternoon opening for 'The Return of the Spoon-Billed Sandpiper'. This exhibition is the culmination of a year-long collaboration between Pop Up Projects (UK children’s literature development agency), Nhã Nam (Vietnam publisher) and Simon & Schuster (UK children’s publisher).

On view in the Central Lounge until 3 December, it displays the work of 15 Vietnamese illustrators. Trang Nguyen wrote a new narrative nonfiction picture book text called The Return of the Spoon-Billed Sandpiper. It tells the story of a near-extinct bird species returning to Vietnam, due to the efforts of conservationists to restore and protect its habitats.

The exhibition will be presented at the Royal Over-Seas League in London, Manchester School of Art’s Vertical Gallery at Manchester Metropolitan University, and in Hanoi at Nhã Nam’s bookstores.

As a part of Friday's afternoon opening Royal Over-Seas League welcomed British television and radio presenter, screenwriter and children's author Konnie Huq, spokesperson for fundraising project 'Children For Change' - an anthology of writing and illustration by over 50 of the UK's brightest stars in children's books, to inspire children and young people to make actions, small or large, local or global, to change the course of the climate emergency. Pop Up Projects' ambition is to get this Children For Change anthology into every primary school in the UK and beyond, into hundreds of thousands of children's homes.

To support the Children For Change fundraiser: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/children-for-change

The Return of the Spoon-Billed Sandpiper is a part of the British Council UK/Viet Nam Season 2023.

09/11/2023

EXHIBITION OPPORTUNITY!
RBA RISING STARS and Rome Scholarship 2024 are now open for applications: https://www.royalsocietyofbritishartists.org.uk/rome-scholarship.html

ROSL ARTS partners with Royal Society of British Artists - showcasing the 40 shortlisted artists for the RBA Rome Scholarship. Apply now - Deadline for entry Wednesday 10 January, 12 noon GMT.

The Scholarship Prizes, sponsored by Huaicun Zhang Hon RBA:

£5000 Main Prize, plus one month Rome Scholarship
£1000 prize money each for two runners-up

RBA Rome Scholarship is is open to artists who live, work or study in the UK and who are aged 35 years or under.

Join previous winners such as Aelfred Hillman (2023) and
Clark Broadwood-Smith (2022) in exhibiting at Royal Over-Seas League next Spring (26 April - 7 July 2024) before a one-month residency at Sala Uno, Rome in September 2024.

01/11/2023

Lovely article from The Business Standard celebrating our ROSL Photo 2023 Winner Md. Zobayer Hossain Joati.

You can view Md. Zobayer Hossain Joati's winning photo 'My Beloved Grandparents' and the full shortlist in the ROSL Photo 2023 Exhibition at Over-Seas House from 8 December 2023 - 4 February 2024.

Young Bangladeshi award-winning photographer Md. Zobayer Hossain Joati talks about his passion for photography and upcoming projects

19/10/2023

Displaying with Primo Marella Gallery, Milan at 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, Somerset House just one year after visiting the fair as ROSL International Artist in Residence 2022 in partnership with The Art House Wakefield, Samuel Nnorom continues to delight with his vibrant African wax print fabric artworks. Congratulations Samuel!

18/10/2023

Frieze Sculpture, the much-celebrated free public art exhibition is currently on view in Regent’s Park, London, until 29 October, 2023.

Selected among the 21 sculptures on display by independent curator and writer Fatoş Üstek is ROSL ARTS alumni Leilah Babirye, with her bronze titled 'Gyagenda', 2023.

Leilah Babirye was a 2013 ROSL Visual Arts Scholar in partnership with a residency at Hospitalfield and exhibition at The OXO Tower, London. We are delighted to see Leilah's work situated amongst such illustrious contemporaries and encourage you to visit this month!

Gyagenda is Leilah Babirye's first bronze sculpture, continuing the multidisciplinary artist's ongoing tradition of imagining and creating a community of q***r Buganda clanspeople. The title is a Luganda idiom which refers to young people going forth into the wider world.

Frieze Sculpture Curator Üstek said: ‘I am excited to invite Londoners and international visitors to partake in a new vision for sculpture this autumn. This year's Frieze Sculpture brings together a wide breadth of artistic practices from across the world. The English Gardens will be charged with artworks that pronounce the contrast between the monumental and the ephemeral, whilst engaging with aspects of other artistic mediums.'

16/10/2023

We are celebrating our artist alumni at the start of a new week. The Royal Over-Seas League was fortunate to have both of our current International Artists-in-Residence in partnership with The Art House, Wakefield, join us for a very busy schedule during Frieze Art Fair.

Both Kim and Asta (aka qaidi805) took some time away from their two-month studio programme to visit exhibitions, talks and events surrounding the London Art Week.