Grants & Fellowships Awarded

Autumn 2021

  • At the autumn 2021 meeting of the Centre’s Advisory Council the following fellowships and grants were awarded:

Collaborative Project Grants

  1. National Galleries of Scotland and University of Edinburgh towards collaborative research for the project John Michael Wright and the Art of Invention
  2. Portsmouth City Council and Silver Society, Royal Navy towards collaborative research for the project Portsmouth’s Civic Silver Collection
  3. University of Salford and Royal Institute of British Architects, Liverpool towards collaborative research for the project The Modern Backdrop: The Impact of Architectural Modernity on Memory, Identity and Lives in Salford, 1960-1973

Curatorial Research Grants

  1. Birmingham Museums Trust to help support a research curator to work on the project Victorian Art, Design and Empire
  2. Fitzwilliam Museum to help support a research curator to work on the project Enslavement and Empire, c.1670–1870
  3. Royal Museums Greenwich to help support a research curator to work on the project Van de Velde 350: The Dawn of British Marine Painting
  4. The Hepworth Wakefield to help support a research curator to work on the project A Collection for Wakefield: Cataloguing, Research and Presentation of Two Major Bequests to the Wakefield Permanent Art Collections
  5. The Stephen Lawrence Gallery to help support a research curator to work on the project Frank Bowling and Sculpture
  6. Turner’s House Trust to help support a research curator to work on the project J. M. W. Turner’s Sandycombe Years Exhibition Series

Digital Project Grants

  1. The Courtauld Institute of Art towards creating a publicly-accessible, free-to-use online database of digitised material from the Institute’s archive of British wall paintings through the project The National Wall Paintings Survey: Phase 1
  2. University of East Anglia towards creating an interactive, open-access resource built around a collection of ‘fictile ivories’ through the project The UEA Fictile Ivories: Casts, Networks, Replicas

Event Support Grants

  1. Fieldnotes to support the writing workshops ARCHI-POETICS: Urban Architecture
  2. Northumbria University to support the conference Art Publishing, Periodicals and Printed Things
  3. The William Morris Society to support the symposium The Kelmscott Press and its Legacies
  4. University of Dundee to support the conference Art History and Violence against Women

Publication Grants

  1. Caitlin Beach author costs towards publishing Sculpture at the Ends of Slavery
  2. Eva Bentcheva author costs towards publishing The Dancing Hands: The Life and Works of Prafulla Mohanti
  3. Jacqueline Bishop and Intellect Books author and publisher costs towards publishing Patchwork: Essays & Interviews on Contemporary Caribbean Visual Culture
  4. Gary Boyd and Lund Humphries author and publisher costs towards publishing Architecture and the Face of Coal: Mining and Modern Britain
  5. Reaktion Books publisher costs towards publishing The Private Lives of Pictures: Art at Home in Britain 1800–1940
  6. Lloyd de Beer, Helen Lunnon, Zachary Stewart and Harvey Miller author and publisher costs towards publishing From Miniature to Monumental: Studies in the Material Culture of Medieval Britain
  7. Charlotte de Mille and Edinburgh University Press author and publisher costs towards publishing Bergson in Britain: Modern Art and Philosophy
  8. Alicia Foster and Pallant House Gallery author and publisher costs towards publishing Gwen John: Art and Life in Two Cities
  9. Helen Draper and Lund Humphries author and publisher costs towards publishing Mary Beale
  10. Charlotte Gauthier and Paul Holberton Publishing author and publisher costs towards publishing 900 Years of St Bartholomew the Great
  11. Conor Lucey author costs towards publishing House and Home in Georgian Ireland: Spaces and Cultures of Domestic Life
  12. Michael McMillan author costs towards publishing The Front Room: Migrant Aesthetics in the Home (revised edition)
  13. Iris Moon author and publisher costs towards publishing Melancholy Wedgwood
  14. Callan Waldron-Hall and Bluecoat author and publisher costs towards publishing Bluecoat Off-Centre: Out of the Archive

Research Support Grants

  1. Sara Ayres towards research costs for the project Investigating and Publishing a Manuscript Account of Prince Otto von Hessen-Kassel's Princely Tour in England and Scotland in 1611
  2. Sarah Churchill towards research costs for the project Photography, ‘The New Brutalism,’ and the Invention of Postwar Social Housing
  3. Thomas Cooper towards research costs for the project Researching May Morris in Oxfordshire
  4. Emily Cox towards research costs for the project The 'Tendril' and the 'Root': Rethinking the Fin-de-Siècle’s Artistic Landscape
  5. Lauren Craig towards research costs for the project Rendering Experience: A Curatorial Exploration of 'Passion: Discourses on Blackwomen’s Creativity' (1990)
  6. Taous Rose Dahmani towards research costs for the project “Direct Action Photography”: A Typography of the Photographic Representation of Struggles and the Struggle for Photographic Representations (London, 1968–1989)
  7. Catherine Doucette towards research costs for the project The Decorative Arts of Colonial Jamaica
  8. Ruth Ezra towards research costs for the project Leaves of Glass: Mica Between Art and Science in Early Modern England
  9. Katherine Fein towards research costs for the project Tusk and Skin: The Intimate Ecologies of Ivory Miniatures
  10. Luke Fiederer towards research costs for the project To Waterloo on the Windrush: How Lambeth's Caribbean Community Redefined Architectural Britishness
  11. Eliza Goodpasture towards research costs for the project Kindred Spirits: Friendship and Ambition Among Women Artists, 1870–1920
  12. Rachel Hutcheson towards research costs for the project Color Photography, 1890–1920: Technology, Gender, Colonialism
  13. Arjuna Keshvani-Ham towards research costs for the project Harry Fainlight: The Beatniks and the British Art Scene, 1957–1967
  14. Alexandra Macdonald towards research costs for the project The Social Life of Time in the Anglo-Atlantic World, 1660–1830
  15. Fionn Montell-Boyd towards research costs for the project Speculative Projections: The Political Economy of Silver and the Emergence of Photography in Britain, 1780–1841
  16. Kimberly Morse Jones towards research costs for the project An Anthology of British Press Art Criticism from the Long Nineteenth Century
  17. Stephen Parnell towards research costs for the project The Makings of Critical Regionalism: Ken Frampton at AD
  18. Triveni Srikaren towards research costs for the project Women Art Workers of the Arts and Crafts Movement in Britain, c.1880–1925
  19. Francesca Strobino towards research costs for the project Mapping the Private and Scientific Network of WHF Talbot’s Photomechanical Experiments
  20. Elliott Sturtevant towards research costs for the project “London’s Most Modern Office Building”: Bush House, International Trade, and the Supremacy of English-speaking Peoples in the Aftermath of WWI

Andrew Wyld Research Support Grants

  1. Michael Feinberg towards research travel costs for the project Caribbean Landscapes and Agencies beyond the Human in British Print Culture Surrounding the Haitian Revolution
  2. Hannah Lyons towards research travel costs for the project Caroline Watson (1760/1–1814), Frances, Marchioness of Bute (1773–1832) and the Bute Collection of Prints