The Royal College of Art (RCA) in London has announced the launch of its new Sir Frank Bowling Scholarship, supporting 24 UK MA and MRes students and 1 PhD student every year from Black African and Caribbean diaspora heritage, or mixed Black African and Caribbean diaspora heritage, across MA, MRes and PhD study.
Over the course of six decades, Frank Bowling OBE RA has relentlessly pursued a practice which boldly expands the possibilities and properties of paint. Bowling has been hailed as one of the foremost British artists of his generation. Ambitious in scale and scope, his dynamic engagement with the materiality of his chosen medium, and its evolution in the broad sweep of art history, has resulted in paintings of unparalleled originality and power.
