Sean Alavazo, Sunken
We are delighted to announce our 2023 Student Award winners. We would like to extend a huge thank you to our funding partners for their generosity and support.
RSA John Kinross Scholarships
This year twelve graduates have received RSA John Kinross Scholarships, which fund a period of 6 to 12 weeks in Florence to research and develop their practice. Florence has been an inspiration to generations of artists and architects and this opportunity allows successful applicants to experience its magnificent history, study its art and architecture, learn the language and create a visual record of their experience.
2023 winners:
Sean Alavazo | Jackie Bell | Kirsty Bell | Kerry Simms | Martha Cooke | Kenzie Harrison | Kate Power | Angeni Perez Jamieson | Charlene Scott | Aleksandra Warchol | Elena Onwochei-Garcia | Siti Zulkifle.
RSA Barns-Graham Travel Award
Glasgow School of Art graduate Felicity White is the 2023 recipient of the RSA Barns-Graham Travel Award. Felicity plans to use the £2,000 funds to travel to El Salvador, Central America, where she will draw links between her diasporic relationship to El Salvador, Indigenous suppression, and resource extractivism.
RSA David Michie Travel Award
Mathieu Cardosi, from Duncan of Jordanstone Collage of Art, received the 2023 David Michie Travel Award, which provides £2,500 to a graduating or postgraduate drawing and painting student. Mathieu will travel to Berlin to examine how the city's architecture can be used to understand its recent social, political, and economic history and how these elements continue to shape the city.
RSA Blackadder Houston Student Travel Award
The first recipient of the new RSA Blackadder Houston Student Travel Award, which funds a period of international travel for graduating and postgraduate painting students from Edinburgh College of Art (ECA), is Megan Owen. Megan will use the £3,000 funds to visit Florence and Siena, with the intention of expanding her research into sacred spaces and spaces configured as spiritual zones.
RSA Graduate Travel Award
Edinburgh College of Art graduate Bronwen Barnes-Archer is the 2023 recipient of the RSA Graduate Travel Award, which grants £3,000 to fund a period of international research. Bronwen will travel to Tamil Nadu and Kerala, India, to learn about their local pottery traditions which are closely tied to the local geography.
