The Royal College of Art

Following interviews this week, five first-year students were shortlisted for the Genesis Photography Scholarship at the RCA.  The prize, worth £20,000 in total, and paid over the course of the two-year MA programme, is awarded to a first-year MA student alternate years. The funds are used for making work.

Greta Alfaro, the first beneficiary of the Genesis Foundation Scholarship programme at the Royal College of Art will have her work featured in the following shows around the world:

24 June - 3 July
RCA 2011
Royal College of Art, Battersea site. London

28 June - 12 September
INANIMATE BEINGS.
La casa Encendida, Madrid.

Greta Alfaro, the first beneficiary of the Genesis Foundation Scholarship programme at the Royal College of Art, will see her work 'In Ictu Oculi' shown in exhibitions at the Institute for Contemporary Arts in London and the Centre Pompidou in Paris.

Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2010 - iCA, London

Greta Alfaro, the first beneficiary of the Genesis Foundation Scholarship programme at the Royal College of Art, has a solo show opening this week entitled 'ELOGIO DELA BESTIA' (In Praise of the Beast) that will be held at Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Huarte, in Pamplona, Spain.

Greta Alfaro, the first beneficiary of the new Genesis Foundation Scholarship programme at the Royal College of Art, has produced a series of portraits featuring dogs belonging to Genesis Foundation founder, John Studzinski.  Greta writes:

I have taken photographs of the dogs, making them look like landscapes by using miniatures, coloured backgrounds and situating the camera in the right angle.

Located in South Kensington, London, the Royal College of Art is the only wholly postgraduate university of art and design in the world.

Greta Alfaro has been awarded the Genesis Foundation Scholarship at the Royal College of Art.  The first of its kind, the scholarship provides a full award for a student for both years of an MA course.

Greta Alfaro is the first beneficiary of the new Genesis Foundation Scholarship programme at the Royal College of Art.  A postgraduate photography student from Valencia, Spain, she has been offered a place on the two-year M.A. programme and will receive £10,000 per year from the Genesis Foundation.  Her work deals with the importance and significance of images in contemporary Western society.