Autumn 2024
- At the autumn 2024 meeting of the Centre’s Advisory Council the following grants were awarded:
Andrew Wyld Research Support Grants
- 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
- 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)
- James Bettley for the publication English Churches on the Continent
- Sonia Boyce for the publication The Fissures of Modernism: Black British Artists and Collecting Cultures
- Monica Hahn for the publication Harlequins of Empire: Staging Colonial Identity in British Art circa 1776
- Edmund Harris for the publication The Inimitable Architecture of Samuel Sanders Teulon (1812–1873)
- John Hilary for the publication Magnates and Masterpieces
- Ysanne Holt for the publication Art, Environment and an Anglo-Scottish Borderland: Centring the Peripheries
- Victoria Horne for the publication Making Our Own Art History: Feminist Arts News, 1978–93
- Kathleen Kennedy for the publication Illuminating Media: Transmitting the Renaissance in England, 1400–1550
- Andrea Kirkham for the publication Decorative Wall Painting in Domestic Houses, 1560–1660: Colour, Design and Society
- Helen Lawrence-Beaton for the publication Thomas Archer (1668–1743): A Forgotten Baroque Master
- Christina Malathouni for the publication Public Mental Health Facilities in Postwar England, 1948–1973
- Simon Payne for the publication Experimental Cinema: Structures, Systems, Strategies
- Andrew Saint for the publication Waterloo Bridge and London River: Investigations and Reflections
- Sophia Satchell-Baeza for the publication Sensual Laboratories: Light Shows, Experimental Film, and Psychedelic Art
- Christine Slobogin for the publication Putting Plastic Surgery on Paper: How Art and Archives Defined Second World War Reconstructive Surgery in Britain
- Victoria Souliman for the publication Australian Women, Art and the Interwar Years: Migration and Identity
- Łukasz Stanek for the publication The Gift: Spaces of Global Socialism and Their Afterlives
- Sara Stevenson for the publication The Two-way Gaze. David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson’s Fishermen and Women of the Firth of Forth
- Divya Subramanian for the publication Townscape: How the British Empire Shaped Postwar Urbanism
- Beth Williamson for the publication A Cultural Biography of William Johnstone
Author Grants (Small)
- Emily Beswick to support costs in publishing the article Chinese Brides and Diasporic Visions
- 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)
- Freya Irving to support costs in publishing the article An Imperial Digest: Tropical Translations in the Royal Rockingham Dessert Service
Collaborative Project Grant
- 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
- 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
- Computer Arts Archives for the project British Cybernetic Art 1965–1975
- University of Delaware for the project Conservation, Assessment and Scientific Analysis of Artworks by Simeon Solomon
Curatorial Research Grant
- Bishopsgate Institute for the curatorial project The Art of Rachael Field: lesbian art, archives and tradition (1988–2024)
- Household Belfast C.I.C for the curatorial project Critical Domesticities: An Archive of the Home as a Site for Artistic Production in Belfast
- Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum for the curatorial project Tempera Revival and Legacy: A Story to be Discovered
- 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
- Drawing Room Tannery Arts for the digitisation of rare titles held in the collection of Drawing Room Library & Research Centre
- The Charterhouse for the digitisation project: The pipe that bringith the watir home: digitising the water maps of the Charterhouse in London
- Touchstone Art Gallery for the digitisation project: Inheritance: (Legacies of A Tall Order!)
- Whitechapel Gallery for the digitisation project: Whitechapel Gallery Archive – Digitisation of Historic Press Cuttings
Digital Project Grants
- Liverpool John Moores University for the project “Our Most Beautiful Mechanical Contrivances”: Exhibiting Empire in Nineteenth-Century Liverpool
- Matrix Archive Group (MAG) for the project Matrix Open: Curating a Feminist Digital Architecture Archive
- Primary for the project The Final Letters of Jackie Creft
Event Support Grants
- Ferens Art Gallery towards the Sirens: Women and the Sea in Mythology, Art and Creative Activism conference
- House of Dread towards the Garvey Loves Flowers Too: Rethinking Pan Africanism and its influence of Black British Art symposium
- National Library of Wales towards the Challenging the Mainstream: Presenting Visual Culture in Small Nations symposium
- Queen Margaret University towards the Socially Engaged Art and Ethics symposium
- The Box towards the Colonial Topographies of the Internet: Materials, Borders, Power symposium
- University of Derby towards the Curzon, Contacts and Contexts: Engaging with Imperial Histories at Kedleston Hall symposium
Exhibition Publication Grants
- Institute of Contemporary Arts for the publication 40 years since The Thin Black Line
- Norfolk Museums Service for the publication Colin Self: A Retrospective (working title)
- Spike Island, Ikon and Camden Art Centre for the publication Donald Locke
- The Harris Museum, Art Gallery and Library for the publication Horrockses Fashions: A Post-World War II Fashion Phenomenon (TBC)
- The Hepworth Wakefield for the publication Helen Chadwick, Life Pleasures
- Whitechapel Gallery for the publication Joy Gregory: Catching Flies with Honey
Research Support Grants
- Malcolm Baker for research on the project A Catalogue Raisonné of the Busts and Statues of Louis François Roubiliac
- Catherine Bourne for research on the project Disability and The Digital in British Art
- Luke Fidler for research on the project A Plenitude of Line: Passages in Pictish Sculpture
- Maria Fusco for research on the project The Feminist Textual Atmospherics of Anchorholds
- Lucy Howie for research on the project Franki Raffles and Sandra George: Disability and Community Photography in 1980s Scotland
- Adarsh Lanka for research on the project Revolutionizing Architectural Production Technical Education, Cement, and the Rise of Private Enterprise (Bombay Presidency, 1821–1940)
- Joseph Litts for research on the project Natural Disaster in the British Atlantic: Aesthetics, Delight, and Risk During the Long 18th Century
- Henrietta McBurney for research on the project Christiana Herringham (1852–1929): artist, collector, patron’ (provisional title)
- Michael Partington for research on the project John Ogilby’s Illustrated Books
- Alpesh Patel for research on the project Queer Muslim Futures
- Jessica Nicole Ramas Manuel for research on the project Exploring the Ties Between British and Philippine Exhibition Histories
- Aindreas Scholz for research on the project Rediscovering Anna Atkins: Illuminating the Forgotten Female Pioneer of British Photography
- Nisha Shanghavi for research on the project Archival research and visual documentation of colonial India’s social club sites in Chennai, and Ootacamund