• At the autumn 2018 meeting of the Centre’s Advisory Council the following Fellowships and Grants were awarded:

Curatorial Research Grants

  • The Royal Society of Sculptors to help support a research curator to work on the project Pioneering Women at the Heart of the Royal Society of Sculptors
  • Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum to help support a research curator to work on the project Frederick Cayley Robinson “Forgotten” Artist: Spiritual Art, Feminism and British Culture, 1890-1930 (working title)
  • University of the Witwatersrand to help support a research curator work on the project British plans on the Mines: drawing resources from the Witwatersrand, 1885-1945
  • The British Museum to help support a research curator to work on the project Thomas Becket: martyrdom and myth (working title)
  • Bristol Archives to help support a research curator to work on the project One Vast Interconnected World: the British experience of empire as represented in photographs from the British Empire and Commonwealth Collection
  • National Trust to help support a research curator to work on the project Mapping Sculpture in National Trust Collections

Digital Project Grants

  • Institute of Contemporary Arts towards creating a digital historical timeline for the Institute of Contemporary Arts from 1946 to the present day
  • Watts Gallery to support the four six-month fellowships for early career researchers to work on the Watts Gallery – Artists’ Village project

Educational Programme Grants

  • Centre for Feminist Research, University of London to support the symposium Beyond Lesbian Constellations
  • The University of Manchester to support the symposium The Artist of the Future Age: William Blake, Neo-Romanticisms, Counterculture and Now
  • BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art to support the symposium on Rasheed Araeen
  • Art and Christianity to support the series of five symposia Visual Communion: the art, architecture and craft of the Eucharist
  • Government Art Collection to support the creation of the podcast series A Meeting of Cultures
  • National Gallery, London to support the conference Art for the Nation: John Ruskin, Art Education and Social Change
  • Victoria and Albert Museum to support the conference Celebrating Reproductions: Past, present and future

Publication Grants

  • Alan Powers author costs towards publishing Commercial Architecture
  • Alison FitzGerald author costs towards publishing Studies in Irish Georgian Silver
  • The Hepworth Wakefield author and publisher costs towards publishing Magdalene Odundo: The journey of things
  • Institute of Contemporary Arts author and publisher costs towards publishing Institute of Contemporary Arts 1969-1989
  • Pallant House Gallery publisher costs towards publishing Glyn Philpot: Coming out as a Modernist
  • Claire Jones author costs towards publishing Sculpture in Britain, 1837-1901: Contested Experiments
  • Devika Singh and Reaktion Books author and publisher costs towards publishing Modern Art in India and its Global Context
  • Diane Waggoner author costs towards publishing Lewis Carroll: Photography and Modern Childhood
  • Matthew Reeve and The Pennsylvania State University author and publisher costs towards publishing Gothic Architecture, Sexuality, and Aesthetics in the Circle of Horace Walpole
  • Gill Hedley and I.B. Tauris author and publisher costs towards publishing Love, Art: the life of Arthur Jeffress
  • Jonty Tarbuck and Locus+ author and publisher costs towards publishing Morris & Steedman / The Modernist House
  • The Corning Museum of Glass author and publisher costs towards publishing In Sparkling Company: Reflections on Glass in 18th Century Britain
  • Laing Art Gallery publisher costs towards publishing The Enchanted Interior
  • Yale University Press publisher costs towards publishing The Pocket: A Hidden History of Women’s Lives 1690-1900
  • Archipelago Press publisher costs towards publishing SOLD! 200 Years of Antique Dealing in Britain
  • Meaghan Clarke author costs towards publishing Fashionability, Exhibition Culture and Gender Politics: Fair Women
  • Boydell & Brewer publisher costs towards publishing The Eglantine Table: Elizabethan Musical Instruments in Marquetry at Hardwick Hall
  • Peter Humfrey author costs towards publishing The Stafford Gallery: The Greatest Art Collection of Regency London
  • Geoff Quilley author costs towards publishing British Art and the East India Company
  • Rachel Delman author costs towards publishing the article Gendered Iconography and Female Authority in Alice Chaucer, Duchess of Suffolk’s Residence at Ewelme, Oxfordshire
  • Rebecca Searle author costs towards publishing Art, Propaganda and Aerial Warfare in Britain during the Second World War
  • Mercer Art Gallery publisher costs towards publishing William Powell Frith: The People’s Painter
  • Public Monuments and Sculpture Association publisher costs towards publishing Public Sculpture of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
  • MIT Press publisher costs towards publishing The Locked Room – Four Years that Shook Art Education in Britain 1969-1973
  • York Art Gallery publisher costs towards publishing Ruskin, Turner & the Storm Cloud
  • Timothy Brittain-Catlin author costs towards publishing The Edwardians and their Houses (working title)
  • Timothy Wilcox author costs towards publishing James Tower 1919-1988: potter, sculpture, painter
  • Zuleika Murat author costs towards publishing English Alabaster Carvings in Their Context

Research Support Grants

  • Abigail Breeze Barrington ‘Her diving needle taught him how to swim': The Story of Hero and Leander in Visual and Material Culture: 1580-1630
  • Alistair Fair Peter Moro and Partners: Modernism and the Welfare State
  • Amber Roberts “Toward a Modern Landscape”: A Trans-atlantic Modernist Research Network 1958-1964
  • Ben Cartwright In the Footsteps of James Baillie Fraser
  • Beth Williamson Recasting British Modernism: William Johnstone Artist and Educator
  • Caroline Dakers The Venetian world of Henry Woods RA 1877-1921
  • Edit Toth Peter Péri: Everyday Life in Altered Dimensions
  • Elizabeth Dean Romariz Presentation Volumes: Rethinking the Architect and their Drawings
  • Emily Weeks Jean-Léon Gérôme in London, 1870-71
  • Gili MerinThe Modern Pilgrim-Tourist to Jerusalem and the British Project of a Biblical City
  • Julie Halls Textiles designed for export to Africa: cultures and contexts
  • Karin Zitzewitz Feminist Networks and Formal Change: Towards an Entangled History of British and Indian Contemporary Art, 1991-2008
  • Kate StrasdinThe 19th Century Dress Diary of Anne Sykes
  • Laura Guy Jill Posener's Photographs of Feminist Graffiti: Drawing a line through the long 1970s
  • Mei-Ying Sung The Chanley-Dodd Woodblocks at the Huntington Library
  • Michael Wright Pel – Britain’s Modernist Furniture Manufacturer
  • Nushelle de Silva Protocols for the Permanently Peripatetic: The Emergence of the Globally Circulating Exhibition, 1946-1980
  • Rebecca Lyons Sir Thomas Lawrence as artist and agent
  • Rebecca Pollack Contextualizing British Holocaust Memorials and Museums: Form, Content and Politics
  • Richard Hayes E.W. Godwin's Designs for Theatres: Fragments in the Archives
  • Robert Proctor Percy Thomas: Modern Architecture as National Service
  • Ryna Ordynat Elite British Women's Albums and the Creation of Feminine Visual Culture, 1750-1830'
  • Seayoung Kim Contemporary Interpretation and Presentation of the Muybridge Collection: Implications for Audience Engagement
  • Shantel Blakely Herbert Read and Henry Moore on Sculpture, Architecture, and the Potential of Art
  • Simon Spier Creating the Bowes Museum: Private collecting, public philanthropy and the art market in Britain, 1860-1920
  • Sophie Pickford Bloomsbury Art and the Ballet (1922-1932)
  • Themba Mtwazi Spaces of Cultural Resistance: The Contestation Between Tradition and Colonial Housing Typologies of Empire in Southern African Townships - Zimbabwe (1894-2005)
  • Victoria Horne Against Absence: The Feminist Revolution in Art History

Andrew Wyld Research Support Grants

  • Tara Contractor William Blake and The Golden Whirlwind: Reinterpreting Blake’s Gilding Practices
  • Wenqi Zhu The Objective Eye: Travel, Trade, and the British Empire in William Alexander's Topographical Prints and Drawings of Late Qing Dynasty