Grants and Fellowships July 2022–June 2023

Autumn 2022

At the October 2022 meeting of the Advisory Council, the following grants and fellowships were awarded:

Collaborative Project Grants

Arts Council Collection and the Department of Art History, University of Birmingham were awarded £20,000 towards collaborative research for the project Mapping the Collection

The University of East Anglia and Loughborough University London were awarded £20,000 towards collaborative research for the project Exhibiting Oceans in the UK Today

Curatorial Research Grants

Drawing Room was awarded £30,401 to help support a research curator to work on the project The Time of Our Lives Museum of the Home was awarded £37,366 to help support a research curator to work on the project Homes Through Time

The Royal Academy was awarded £22,287 to help support a research curator to work on the project Entangled Pasts: The Royal Academy, Enslavement and Empire

Turner Contemporary was awarded £35,000 to help support a research curator to work on the project Resistance

The Victoria and Albert Museum was awarded £30,000 to help support a research curator to work on the project Hubs, Nodes and Networks: A New History of British Digital Art

Digital Project Grants

University of Lincoln was awarded £20,000 towards a digital research project focused on architectural illusionistic spaces at Beverley Minster and Lincoln Cathedral, through the project Morphing Virtual Spaces: Medieval Architecture and Illusion

Tate Galleries was awarded £30,000 towards the digitisation and online publication of the collage scrapbook of Alison Smithson, through the project Alison’s Mind: A Collage Scrapbook of Postcolonial Imagery on Old England

Four Corners Gallery was awarded £30,000 towards the digital project focused on the Half Moon Photography Workshop’s touring exhibitions from 1976 to 1984, through the project On the Move: Digital Archive Project

Publication Grants

Rosamond Allwood and North Herts Council were awarded £4,900 towards publishing Camden Town to Garden City: The Letchworth paintings of Gilman, Gore and Ratcliffe

Jeffrey Auerbach was awarded £800 towards publishing William Simpson’s Underground Empire

Gemma Brace and Simon Grant were awarded £3,000 towards publishing Paule Vézelay: Living Lines

Clare Carolin was awarded £3,000 towards publishing The Deployment of Art: The Imperial War Museum’s Artistic Records Committee

John-Joseph Charlesworth was awarded £1,800 towards publishing The Mediation of Art in Britain 1968–1976: The Critical War

Alice Correia, Anjalie Dalal-Clayton and Elizabeth Robles (Editors) were awarded £3,000 towards publishing Interventions in British Art History: Critical Essays on Artists of African, Caribbean, and Asian Descent

Mels Evers and Tate Publishing were awarded £5,000 towards publishing Church of the Poison Mind: Queer Art and Club Culture in 1980s Britain

Feargal Fitzpatrick was awarded £3,000 towards publishing The Politics of the Image: Ireland, Landscape and Nineteenth-Century Photography

Ann-Marie Foster was awarded £379 towards publishing Family Mourning after War and Disaster in Early Twentieth-Century Britain

Daniel Fountain and Bloomsbury were awarded £3,218 towards publishing

Queer Crafts: Materiality, Identity and Contemporary Practices

Elisabeth Gernerd was awarded £3,000 towards publishing The Modern Venus: Dress, Underwear and Accessories in 1770s and 1780s Atlantic World

Joy Gregory and MACK were awarded £5,000 towards publishing Shining Lights

Elain Harwood and Alan Powers were awarded £1,200 towards publishing Ernö Goldfinger

Thomas Hughes and Emma Merkling (Editors) were awarded £1,600 towards publishing The Victorian Idyll in Art and Literature: Ecology, Matter, Form

Marcus Jack and LUX Moving Image/ LUX Scotland were awarded £5,000 towards publishing Artists' Moving Image in Scotland

David King and The Lutterworth Press were awarded £7,000 towards publishing Through a Glass Brightly

Nilina Deb Lal and the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland were awarded £8,000 towards publishing

Building Imperial Calcutta: Making the Capital of British India, 1880–1911

Catherine Lord and No Place Press were awarded £8,000 towards publishing

The Effect of Tropical Light on White Men

Samia Malik and Book Works were awarded £8,000 towards publishing Women of Colour Index Reading Group

Gill Perry was awarded £2,450 towards publishing Islands and Contemporary Art

Abi Shapiro (Editor) with The Hepworth Wakefield, in collaboration with A Practice for Everyday Life, were awarded £10,000 towards publishing Kim Lim

Andrew Saint (Editor) was awarded £381 towards publishing French Architecture and the English, 1837–1914

Amy Tobin and Yale University Press London were awarded £5,000 towards publishing Women Artists Together: Feminism, Art and Collaboration in the Age of Women’s Liberation

Mark Webb was awarded £3,000 towards publishing The St Mary's Hall Tapestry, Coventry

Hope Wolf was awarded £3,000 towards publishing Sussex Modernism

Andrew Wyld Research Support Grants

Ellen Smith was awarded £1,768 towards research travel costs for the project Artistic Maritime and Craft Cultures: Drawing and Crafting Artistic Representations of Imperial Voyages throughout the Long Nineteenth Century

Alexandra Solovyev was awarded £1,185 towards research travel costs for the project William Simpson: Constructing Modernity: Visual Representations of the British Railways in Western Anatolia, 1850–1890

Research Support Grants

Abigail Breeze Barrington was awarded £2,000 towards research costs for the project Patrons and Muses: Women in the Arts, 1577–1688

James Bettley was awarded £1,474 towards costs to conduct research on English Churches on the Continent

Altair Brandon-Salmon was awarded £1,981 towards costs to conduct research on the representation of East End bombsites in British post-war photography, titled Strange Worlds: London, 1940–1994

George Charman was awarded £1,994 towards costs to conduct research on the Edward James archive and his contribution to speculative sculpture and experimental architecture

Oliver Coulson was awarded £2,000 towards costs to conduct research on angel roof sculpture and Lollard anti-sacramentalism

Lexington Davis was awarded £2,000 towards research costs for the project Between the Kitchen and the Factory: Margaret Harrison’s ‘Homeworkers’ Project

Emily Doucet was awarded £2,000 towards research costs for the project Kodak Created … the Empire Adopts: The Airgraph in British Visual Culture

Miguel Gaete Caceres was awarded £1,710 towards research costs for the project British Artists in Valparaiso: A Survey of Artworks, Bibliographic Material and Research Resources in London, Surrey, Hull, and Glasgow

Luke Gartlan was awarded £2,000 towards research costs for the project Paper Empires: St Andrews and Early Victorian Photography

Carter Jackson was awarded £2,000 towards research costs for the project Constructing Commerce, Knowledge, and Empire: The Architecture of the Imperial Institute

Holly Marsden was awarded £2,000 towards research costs for the project Archival Research in the Netherlands for ‘The Multiple Identities of Queen Mary II’

Michael Moore-Jones was awarded £2,000 towards research costs for the project Connell and Ward in Modernist and Nationalist Debates

Simon Spier was awarded £1,684 towards research costs for the project James Bandinel, Ceramics and Slavery

Hattie Spires was awarded £2,000 towards research costs for the project Revisiting ‘Rhapsodies in Black’: British Art and the Harlem Renaissance, 1919–1939

Róisín Tapponi was awarded £1,500 towards research costs for the project Erasing the First Intifada: Black Panther Party Graffiti in the Archives of Franki Raffles’ Lot’s Wife (1992–4)

Nina Vollenbroker was awarded £1,500 towards research costs for the project Deafening Space – Norms, Bodies and Architecture in Britain, 1850–1950

Event Support Grants

Touchstones Rochdale was awarded £2,000 to support A Tall Order!, a public talks programme focused on Rochdale Art Gallery in the 1980s

The UK Antarctic Heritage Trust (UKAHT) was awarded £1,500 to support a lecture on Architecture on Ice: The Hidden Story of Post-War Buildings in Antarctica

Faculty of English, University of Cambridge was awarded £1,000 to support a workshop focused on radical art in Cambridge

V&A Wedgwood Collection (Barlaston) and V&A South Kensington (London) were awarded £1,500 to support a symposium focused on the V&A Wedgwood Collection

Wolverhampton School of Art, University of Wolverhampton was awarded £2,000 to support Form, Function, Future, a conference focused on the fortieth anniversary of the First Black Art Convention

Spring 2023

At the March 2023 meeting of the Advisory Council, the following grants and fellowships were awarded:

New Narratives Grants

MA/MPhil Studentship

Skye Weston was awarded £32,000 to undertake an MA in History of Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art with a research focus on DisCrit as a means of understanding post-war British art and its contribution to a ‘British’ collective memory

Doctoral Scholarship

Zoe Bromberg McCarthy was awarded £96,000 to undertake a Doctoral project at the Courtauld Institute of Art titled Reconceiving Blackness within British Art History

Early Career Fellowship

Denise Kwan was awarded £70,000 for the project Water as Method: Mapping the Ecology of East and Southeast Asian Artists in the UK from the 1980s to Present Day

Senior Fellowships

Alex Bremner (University of Edinburgh) was awarded £60,000 for the project A New History of Victorian Architecture

Mid-Career Fellowships

Adeyemi Akande (University of Lagos) was awarded £18,000 for the project Sketching Realities: Merits and Veracity of The Illustrated London News’ images on West Africa, 1842–1900

Jessica Barker (Courtauld Institute of Art) was awarded £18,000 for the project The Rule: Forming Lives, Medieval and Modern

Ben Cranfield (Royal College of Art) was awarded £18,000 for the project With Time: Curating the Contemporary in Post-War Britain

Madhuri Desai (Pennsylvania State University) was awarded £18,000 for the project Shared Antiquarianisms: Maratha Temple Architecture and the East India Company

Sonja Drimmer (University of Massachusetts Amherst) was awarded £18,000 for the project Impressive Politics: Reproduction, Representation, and the Wars of the Roses

Luke Gartlan (University of St Andrews) was awarded £18,000 for the project St Andrews and the Global Networks of Early Victorian Photography

Helen Hughes (Monash University) was awarded £18,000 for the project Art and Convict Transportation from Britain and Ireland to Australia, 1787–1868

Postdoctoral Fellowships

Katherine Calvin was awarded £15,000 for the project Antiquarian Speculations: Art, Credit, and Collecting between Europe and the Ottoman Empire, 1660–1830

Nora Epstein was awarded £15,000 for the project Visual Commonplacing: The Transmission and Reception of Printed Devotional Images in Reformed England

Sushma Griffin was awarded £15,000 for the project Resistant Mediations: The Colonial Camera and the Art of Indian Pilgrimage

Rosalind Hayes was awarded £15,000 for the project ‘Look to Your Eating’: Animals, Meat, and Visual Culture in Britain, 1880–1910

Avigail Moss was awarded £15,000 for the project Peculiar Risks: Art and Insurance, 1780–1925

Naomi Vogt was awarded £15,000 for the project Invented Rituals

Junior Fellowships

Altair Brandon-Salmon (Stanford University) was awarded £8,000 for the project Strange Worlds: London, 1940–1994

Sarah Hutcheson (Harvard University) was awarded £8,000 for the project Spatializing the Restoration: The Building Projects of Charles II

Ariel Kline (Princeton University) was awarded £8,000 for the project Mapping Fairyland: The Imperial Space of Mid-Victorian Fairy Paintings

Gian Marco Russo (Sapienza Università di Roma) was awarded £8,000 for the project Antonio Zucchi (1726–1795): An Eighteenth-Century Painter between Italy and England

Archives & Library Fellowship

No grants made in Spring 2023

Rome Fellowship

Emma Merkling was awarded £18,446 (£7,000 to individual, £11,446 to British School in Rome) to spend time at the British School at Rome to research their project Finding Annie Swynnerton: British-Italian Symbolist Networks in Rome, 1880–1920

Research Support Grants

James Bell was awarded £1,000 towards research costs for the project To All My Homosexual Schoolmasters: Intergenerational Learning in the Archives of AIDS Activism

Sarah Carter was awarded £2,000 towards research costs for the project Empire follows Art: Trafficking Culture in Imperial Britain 1780–1830

Jean Marie Christensen was awarded £2,000 towards research costs for the project Bodies of the Crown: Kinship, Health, and the Construction of the Royal Body in Early Modern English Portraiture

Simon Constantine was awarded £1,699 towards research costs for the project Aberdeen Harbour from Above and Below, 1853–1908

Hannah Darvin was awarded £2,000 towards research costs for the project

Sentimentalizing Medicine: Luke Fildes’s The Doctor (1891) and the Idealized Image of the Physician-Patient Relationship

Sarah Gould was awarded £1,250 towards research costs for the project Millais, un peintre hors du temps

Catlin Langford was awarded £1,980 towards research costs for the ‘Shot her way to success’: The Life and Work of Eva Barrett

Réjean Legault was awarded £1,840 towards research costs for the project Brutalism and the Materiality of Post-war Architecture in Britain

Susannah Lyon-Whalley was awarded £2,000 towards research costs for the project ‘little & pretty like Hamersmith as her majesty says’: Catherine of Braganza’s Lost Dowager House and Garden

Michael Andrew Michael was awarded £2,000 towards research costs for the project From Westminster to Rome

Heather Mullender-Ross was awarded £1,193 towards research costs for the project Putting Us in the Picture: The Origins and Development of Stefan Themerson’s ‘Kurt Schwitters on a Time-Chart’.

Massimiliano Papini was awarded £1,024 towards research costs for the project Late Victorian and Edwardian Japonisme in Peripheral Britain: Transmediality and Transculturality in John George Sowerby’s Art Practices across Painting, Ceramic Design, and Children’s Illustrated Books, 1880–1914

Ben Pollitt was awarded £2,000 towards research costs for the project Visualising the Elements in the Art of British Maritime Exploration (1766–1814) in Australian Collections

Kelly Rappleye was awarded £1,010 towards research costs for the project Moving (With) Images: Building Curatorial Knowledges of Glasgow’s Urban Landscape

Damiët Schneeweisz was awarded £2,000 towards research costs for the project

Traveling Pictures: Tracing Portrait Miniatures in the British West Indies

Tor Scott was awarded £1,000 towards research costs for the project Edith Rimmington & British Surrealism

Christine Slobogin was awarded £2,000 towards research costs for the project

Plastics on Paper: Dickie Orpen and the Visual Culture of Second World War

Plastic Surgery in Britain

Eleanor Stephenson was awarded £500 towards research costs for the project

The Robertson-Aikman Collection and Archive in Scotland

Event Support Grants

British Academy/University of Manchester were awarded £1,500 to support the Histories, Art Histories and Heritage Narratives in Eastern Africa virtual conference

Dartington Trust was awarded £2,000 to support the Creative Sanctuary: Dartington in the 1930s and Beyond symposium eikones, Universität Basel was awarded £1,000 to support the Materializing Transparency workshop

London Linnean Society was awarded £1,400 to support the Extinct: Empire, Art, Natural Histories in a Vanishing Planet conference

MK Gallery, Milton Keynes was awarded £1,500 to support the Entangled Histories: South Asian Miniatures and Britain conference

Murray Edwards College, Cambridge was awarded £2,000 to support The Women's Art Collection: Artworks and Artists in Context conference

Westminster Abbey was awarded £1,500 to support the Westminster Abbey Sixteenth-Century Terracotta workshop