• At the autumn 2024 meeting of the Centre’s Advisory Council the following grants were awarded:

Andrew Wyld Research Support Grants

  1. Grainne McMenamin (Belfast School of Art) for research on the project The Rokeby Collection: The Historical Print as a Catalyst for New Visual Art Practice
  2. Zoe Mercer-Golden (Courtauld Institute of Art) for research on the project The Making Behind the Message: Edwin Austin Abbey’s Quest of the Holy Grail in Context

Author Grants (Large)

  1. James Bettley for the publication English Churches on the Continent
  2. Sonia Boyce for the publication The Fissures of Modernism: Black British Artists and Collecting Cultures
  3. Monica Hahn for the publication Harlequins of Empire: Staging Colonial Identity in British Art circa 1776
  4. Edmund Harris for the publication The Inimitable Architecture of Samuel Sanders Teulon (1812–1873)
  5. John Hilary for the publication Magnates and Masterpieces
  6. Ysanne Holt for the publication Art, Environment and an Anglo-Scottish Borderland: Centring the Peripheries
  7. Victoria Horne for the publication Making Our Own Art History: Feminist Arts News, 1978–93
  8. Kathleen Kennedy for the publication Illuminating Media: Transmitting the Renaissance in England, 1400–1550
  9. Andrea Kirkham for the publication Decorative Wall Painting in Domestic Houses, 1560–1660: Colour, Design and Society
  10. Helen Lawrence-Beaton for the publication Thomas Archer (1668–1743): A Forgotten Baroque Master
  11. Christina Malathouni for the publication Public Mental Health Facilities in Postwar England, 1948–1973
  12. Simon Payne for the publication Experimental Cinema: Structures, Systems, Strategies
  13. Andrew Saint for the publication Waterloo Bridge and London River: Investigations and Reflections
  14. Sophia Satchell-Baeza for the publication Sensual Laboratories: Light Shows, Experimental Film, and Psychedelic Art
  15. Christine Slobogin for the publication Putting Plastic Surgery on Paper: How Art and Archives Defined Second World War Reconstructive Surgery in Britain
  16. Victoria Souliman for the publication Australian Women, Art and the Interwar Years: Migration and Identity
  17. Łukasz Stanek for the publication The Gift: Spaces of Global Socialism and Their Afterlives
  18. Sara Stevenson for the publication The Two-way Gaze. David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson’s Fishermen and Women of the Firth of Forth
  19. Divya Subramanian for the publication Townscape: How the British Empire Shaped Postwar Urbanism
  20. Beth Williamson for the publication A Cultural Biography of William Johnstone

Author Grants (Small)

  1. Emily Beswick to support costs in publishing the article Chinese Brides and Diasporic Visions
  2. Helen Bremm to support costs in publishing the article Materiality, Anthropology, and Deep Time: Stratigraphies of Leonora Carrington’s ”El mundo mágico de los mayas” (1963–64)
  3. Freya Irving to support costs in publishing the article An Imperial Digest: Tropical Translations in the Royal Rockingham Dessert Service

Collaborative Project Grant

  1. Forensic Architecture (Goldsmiths, University of London) and Museum of West African Art for the collaborative project The Broken Heart of the Forest Kingdom: Digital Restitution of the Benin Bronzes to their Eco-Cultural Context
  2. University of Sheffield, University of Manchester and University of Liverpool for the collaborative project Empire of Knowledge: Architectural Education in England’s Industrial North 1903–19XX

Conservation Research Project Grant

  1. Computer Arts Archives for the project British Cybernetic Art 1965–1975
  2. University of Delaware for the project Conservation, Assessment and Scientific Analysis of Artworks by Simeon Solomon

Curatorial Research Grant

  1. Bishopsgate Institute for the curatorial project The Art of Rachael Field: lesbian art, archives and tradition (1988–2024)
  2. Household Belfast C.I.C for the curatorial project Critical Domesticities: An Archive of the Home as a Site for Artistic Production in Belfast
  3. Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum for the curatorial project Tempera Revival and Legacy: A Story to be Discovered
  4. The Bowes Museum for the curatorial project Acquisitions in an Altered Landscape: Exploring a Legacy of Extraction and a Future of Ecological Justice at The Bowes Museum

Digitisation Grants

  1. Drawing Room Tannery Arts for the digitisation of rare titles held in the collection of Drawing Room Library & Research Centre
  2. The Charterhouse for the digitisation project: The pipe that bringith the watir home: digitising the water maps of the Charterhouse in London
  3. Touchstone Art Gallery for the digitisation project: Inheritance: (Legacies of A Tall Order!)
  4. Whitechapel Gallery for the digitisation project: Whitechapel Gallery Archive – Digitisation of Historic Press Cuttings

Digital Project Grants

  1. Liverpool John Moores University for the project “Our Most Beautiful Mechanical Contrivances”: Exhibiting Empire in Nineteenth-Century Liverpool
  2. Matrix Archive Group (MAG) for the project Matrix Open: Curating a Feminist Digital Architecture Archive
  3. Primary for the project The Final Letters of Jackie Creft

Event Support Grants

  1. Ferens Art Gallery towards the Sirens: Women and the Sea in Mythology, Art and Creative Activism conference
  2. House of Dread towards the Garvey Loves Flowers Too: Rethinking Pan Africanism and its influence of Black British Art symposium
  3. National Library of Wales towards the Challenging the Mainstream: Presenting Visual Culture in Small Nations symposium
  4. Queen Margaret University towards the Socially Engaged Art and Ethics symposium
  5. The Box towards the Colonial Topographies of the Internet: Materials, Borders, Power symposium
  6. University of Derby towards the Curzon, Contacts and Contexts: Engaging with Imperial Histories at Kedleston Hall symposium

Exhibition Publication Grants

  1. Institute of Contemporary Arts for the publication 40 years since The Thin Black Line
  2. Norfolk Museums Service for the publication Colin Self: A Retrospective (working title)
  3. Spike Island, Ikon and Camden Art Centre for the publication Donald Locke
  4. The Harris Museum, Art Gallery and Library for the publication Horrockses Fashions: A Post-World War II Fashion Phenomenon (TBC)
  5. The Hepworth Wakefield for the publication Helen Chadwick, Life Pleasures
  6. Whitechapel Gallery for the publication Joy Gregory: Catching Flies with Honey

Research Support Grants

  1. Malcolm Baker for research on the project A Catalogue Raisonné of the Busts and Statues of Louis François Roubiliac
  2. Catherine Bourne for research on the project Disability and The Digital in British Art
  3. Luke Fidler for research on the project A Plenitude of Line: Passages in Pictish Sculpture
  4. Maria Fusco for research on the project The Feminist Textual Atmospherics of Anchorholds
  5. Lucy Howie for research on the project Franki Raffles and Sandra George: Disability and Community Photography in 1980s Scotland
  6. Adarsh Lanka for research on the project Revolutionizing Architectural Production Technical Education, Cement, and the Rise of Private Enterprise (Bombay Presidency, 1821–1940)
  7. Joseph Litts for research on the project Natural Disaster in the British Atlantic: Aesthetics, Delight, and Risk During the Long 18th Century
  8. Henrietta McBurney for research on the project Christiana Herringham (1852–1929): artist, collector, patron’ (provisional title)
  9. Michael Partington for research on the project John Ogilby’s Illustrated Books
  10. Alpesh Patel for research on the project Queer Muslim Futures
  11. Jessica Nicole Ramas Manuel for research on the project Exploring the Ties Between British and Philippine Exhibition Histories
  12. Aindreas Scholz for research on the project Rediscovering Anna Atkins: Illuminating the Forgotten Female Pioneer of British Photography
  13. Nisha Shanghavi for research on the project Archival research and visual documentation of colonial India’s social club sites in Chennai, and Ootacamund