- At the Spring 2015 meeting of the Centre’s Advisory Council the following Fellowships and Grants were awarded:
Senior Fellowships
Ian Campbell, University of Edinburgh, to prepare his book Renaissances in Scottish Architecture, c.1370-1745
Stephen Daniels, University of Nottingham, to prepare his book ‘Map-work’: John Britton and the Reform of Topography in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Rome Fellowship
Caspar Pearson, University of Essex, for research in Rome on The renaissance of the Renaissance? Architecture and Urbanism between Italy and England
Mid-Career Fellowships
Alice Correia, University of Salford, to prepare her book Articulating Contemporary British Asian Art Histories
Manolo Guerci, University of Kent, to prepare his book Great houses of the Strand: the Ruling Elite at Home in Tudor and Jacobean London
Matthew Reeve, Queen’s University, Ontario, to prepare his book Gothic Architecture, Aesthetics and Sexuality in the Circle of Horace Walpole c.1740-90
James Rothwell, The National Trust, to prepare his book Politics, diplomacy and 18th-century European court culture; the Ickworth silver, 1690-1775
Postdoctoral Fellowships
William Bainbridge, Durham University, to prepare his book Peaks & Pencils: The Dolomite Mountains in Victorian Illustrated Books
Caroline Fuchs, Bavarian State Painting Collection, to prepare her book Colour Values: Autochrome Colour Photography in Britain
Victoria Horne, University of Edinburgh, to prepare articles and a book “Our project is not to add to art history, but to change it.” The establishment of the UK Associations of Art Historians, 1974-90 and ‘BLOCK Magazine and the ‘New’ Approaches in British Art History’ and Publishing Dissent: Radical Periodicals and British Art History, 1979-89
Allison Ksiazkiewicz, University of Cambridge, to prepare her book Archetypes of Nature: visualizing geological landscape during the British Enlightenment
Laura Slater, University of York, to prepare her book Art and Political Thought in Medieval England
Sean Willcock, Queen Mary, University of London, to prepare his book The Aesthetics of Conflict: Art, Photography and Geopolitics in the Victorian Period
Junior Fellowships
Andrea Bacciolo, Universität Wien,to conduct research in the United Kingdom for his doctoral thesis The Barberini and the British Isles. Art and diplomacy between Rome and London (1623-1679)
Erin McKellar, Boston University,to conduct research in the United Kingdom for her doctoral thesis Tomorrow on Display: American and British Housing Exhibitions, 1940-1955
Laurel Peterson, Yale University,to conduct research in the United Kingdom for her doctoral thesis The Decorated Interior: Artistic Production in the British Country House, 1688-1745
Allison Young, Institute of Fine Arts, New York, to conduct research in the United Kingdom for her doctoral thesis'Torn and Most Whole': Zarina Bhimji and the 'Culture Wars' in Britain, 1970-2002
Research Support Grants
Susan Bean for research on Modeling Cosmos and Colony: India's Clay Sculpture in the 19th Century Georgina Cole for research on Representations of blindness in eighteenth-century British art
Christopher Cowell for research on The Cantonments of India: A Hidden Theater of British Rule, 1746-1924
Anne Goodchild for research on The early and mid-career work of Victor Pasmore (c.1929-1969)
Ada Grochowska for research on Woodcarving in Anglo-Dutch relationships in the second half of the seventeenth century
Sonal Khullar for research on Fertile Grounds: Art, Primitivism, and Postcoloniality in Twentieth-Century India and Great Britain
JoAnne Mancini for research on Anglo-Spanish conflict and the transformation of art and architecture
Maryam Ohadi-Hamadani for research on Reforming the Canon of British Modernism: Commonwealth artists in London, 1956-1970
Helen Pierce for research on The Art of the Interregnum
Catherine Sloan for research on Radical Post-War Pedagogies in British Art: Basic Design
Alice Strickland for research on Women artists of the First World War: Anna Airy, Flora Lion, Lucy Kemp-Welch, Victoria Monkhouse and Olive Edis
Astrid Swenson for research on The Restoration of Crusader Architecture in the British Mediterranean
Zoe Thomas for research on The Women's Guild of Arts and the Arts and Crafts scene in London, c.1880-1930
Emily Turner for research on British Missionary Infrastructure Development in the Canadian North, c.1850-1914
Frederica Van Dam for research on Flemish migrant painters in England between 1560 and 1620
Nicholas Webb for research on Modelling Medieval Vaults: A digital analysis of Wells Cathedral Aisles
Dominic Wilkinson and Andrew Crompton for research on F.X. Velarde: The modern European church
Educational Programme Grants
British Film Institute grant towards a series of lectures and seminars, April 2015: Cinema Born Again
British Library grant towards a workshop, 29 October 2015: British Library Prints and Drawings: image, evidence, history
University of Exeter grant towards a colloquium, 3-4 December 2015: Fancy-Fantasie-Capriccio: Diversions and Distractions in the Eighteenth Century
Gainsborough's House grant towards a conference, 29-30 October 2015: The Painting Room: New research into the painting practices of artists in the 18th century
Hepworth Wakefield grant towards a conference, 6 June 2015: Décor: A Conference
Jerwood Gallery grant towards a study day, Autumn 2015: Lowry by the Sea
University of Lincoln grant towards a conference, April 2016: Duncan Grant murals in Lincoln Cathedral: Contemporary Responses and Perspectives
Museum of London grant towards a conference, 11-12 September 2015: The Look of Austerity
National Portrait Gallery grant towards a workshop, 21 April 2015: George Scharf and the emergence of the museum professional in nineteenth-century Britain
University of St Andrews grant towards a workshop, June 2015: Curating Materiality: Feminism and Contemporary Art History in the UK
Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, University of Leeds grant towards a symposium, 29 May 2015: Bohemians and marginal communities in the 18th century: George Morland in context