Professor Sarah Casey represented Scotland at the British School at Rome as the 2025 recipient of the Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Research Residency. The award, funded by the Wilhelmina Barns Graham Trust, open by competitive process to artists of British or Commonwealth nationality resident in Scotland, supports residence at the British School at Rome for 6 weeks.

The period in Rome was used to develop research with glacial residues in Italy thinking about environments over the border from where she was recently working on the Emergency! project in Switzerland. The research in Rome looked 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.

The outcomes were exhibited at the British School at Rome Open Studios event in December 2025. You can read more about the research and its outcomes via the British School at Rome blog https://bsr.ac.uk/meet-the-artists-sarah-casey/

You can see some of her updates via her instagram at @drawingthedelicate