


Royal Over Seas League Visual Art Scholars Programme
This page celebrates the ROSL Visual Art Scholars – a long running partnership with the Royal Over-Seas League which started in 1999.
The way the projects supported by the partnership between ROSL and Hospitalfield has worked with organisations such as Collective on developing, presenting and extending the reach of projects. They have had an enormous impact in Scotland by enabling diverse practices to be developed and seen by artists and audiences alike.
Kate Gray Director of Collective, Edinburgh
Each year, between refreshing the programme in 2013 and the final residency cycle in 2017, Hospitalfield and partners The Royal Over-Seas League worked with new commissioning organisations, supporting them to research and select commonwealth artists to undertake a month long residency at Hospitalfield. The residency gave the opportunity for site visits and meetings with the commissioning organisations which resulted in public projects the following year.
The ROSL Scholars were part of the wider Autumn Residency at Hospitalfield which hosts UK and UK based visual artists.
The 2013 – 2017 programme aimed to make a meaningful, productive residency experience for international artists which built their network within the UK and offered the opportunity to additionally develop a public project with a respected commissioning organisation. The commissioning organisations were supported to investigate the work of artists that they would not normally have come across or have the infrastructure to work with. The residency itself provided an opportunity for face to face meetings and site visits to aid in the development of the public outcome.
The Royal Over-Seas League (ROSL) is a unique not-for-profit membership organisation committed to supporting international friendship and understanding. For over 60 years ROSL ARTS has developed a diverse portfolio of activities in music, visual arts, and literature, devoted to the career development of outstanding young professional artists and musicians from the UK and the Commonwealth.
Liverpool Biennial selected Madiha Aijaz, Pakistan. The works Aijaz made were presented at the Karachi Biennial in Pakistan, 2017; The Tetley in Leeds, 2018, and at Liverpool Biennial, 2018.
David Dale Gallery, Glasgow, selected Stephanie Hier. Hier’s solo exhibition, Walnuts and pears you plant for your heirs, took place at David Dale Gallery in the summer of 2018.
The Grundy, Blackpool, selected Tahi Moore, New Zealand. Moore’s solo exhibition, Kim Wilde’s Heart of Darkness, was presented at The Grundy in 2017.
Rhubaba, Edinburgh, selected Jessica Yu, Australia. Rhubaba developed a poly vocal project with Yu, entitled You hardboiled, I softboiled, which took place inside and outside their gallery in 2017.
Auto Italia, London, selected Bogosi Sekhukhuni, South Africa. NTU, the collective which Sekhukhuni is part of alongside Nolan Oswald Dennis and Tabita Rezaire, presented new work at Auto Italia in 2017.
Glasgow International Festival, Glasgow, selected: Tamara Henderson, Canada. Henderson’s large scale exhibition Season’s End was a key commission in the 2016 GI Festival and has toured internationally to REDCAT, Los Angeles; Oakville Galleries, Ontario; Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin; and a component to TATE, London.
AV Festival, NE England, selected Bianca Baldi, South Africa. Baldi’s project took place across both the 2016 and 2018 episodes of AV Festival.
Collective, Edinburgh, selected Dineo Seshee Bopape, South Africa. Bopape’s exhibition is part of the opening programme for Collective’s new building in 2018. In 2017 she won both the Future Generation Art Prize, awarded by the Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev, and the Sharjah Biennial Art Prize. Read Osei Bonsu’s description of meeting Bopape at Hospitalfield in his Future Greats article for Art Review.
2014
Camden Art Centre, London, selected Song-Ming Ang, Singapore. Project Link. See more photos here on Ming-Ang’s website which describes the extended project and its installation at the Istanbul Biennial in 2015. Song-Ming Ang is the artist selected to represent Singapore at the Venice Biennale in 2018. Read more about that project here.
Edinburgh Art Festival, Edinburgh, selected Julie Favreau, Canada. Project Link.
Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, selected Manish Nai, India.
2013
Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow, selected Adele Todd, Trinadad and Tobago. Project Link.
Iniva, London, selected Lerato Shadi, South Africa. Project Link.
Generator, Dundee, selected Mehreen Murtaza, Pakistan. Project Link.
The partnership with ROSL was a longstanding relationship, reaching further back to 1999. The outcome of the residencies was, in the past, exhibited in a group show at OXO in London.







Madiha Aijaz
ROSL Visual Art Scholar 2017
Pakistan – selected with Liverpool Biennial
Exhibition as part of Liverpool Biennial, 14 July – 28 October 2018.



Stephanie Hier
ROSL Visual Art Scholar 2017
Canada – selected with David Dale Gallery, Glasgow
Solo exhibition at David Dale Gallery, 15 June – 21 July 2018, entitled Walnuts and Pears You Plant for Your Heirs.



Bogosi Sekhukhuni and NTU collective
ROSL Scholar 2016
South Africa, Zambia, France / Guiana – selected with Auto Italia, London





Jessica Yu
ROSL Scholar 2016
Australia – selected with Rhubaba, Edinburgh








Tahi Moore
ROSL Scholar 2016
New Zealand – selected with The Grundy, Blackpool

Bianca Baldi
ROSL Scholar 2015
South Africa – selected with AV Festival

Dineo Seshee Bopape
ROSL Scholar 2015
South Africa – selected with Collective, Edinburgh




Tamara Henderson
ROSL Scholar 2015
Canada – selected with Glasgow International, Glasgow



Julie Favreau
ROSL Scholar 2014


Song-Ming Ang
ROSL Scholar 2014

Adele Todd
ROSL Scholar 2013

Lerato Shadi
ROSL Scholar 2013





Mehreen Murtaza
ROSL Scholar 2013