Fellowships and Grants

2015–2016

Over the last five years the number of applications made to the PMC Fellowships and Grants Programme has increased significantly. During the summer of 2015 it was decided to introduce an online awards administration system to cope with these increasing numbers and to bring the PMC’s application process into line with other academic grant-giving bodies. Tom Scutt, Digital Manager at the Centre, researched and implemented an online grants system provided by FluidReview, a Canadian company specialising in the field. With input from Mary Peskett Smith, the Fellowships and Grants Manager, the new system was tailored to our requirements. The system was ready for the Autumn 2015 round of awards when it was used for the first time by all applicants, and it completely replaced the old paper-based manual procedures. It has proved highly successful and has been well received by all but a few applicants.

In Autumn 2015 a new category of award, the Digital Project Grant, was introduced and immediately attracted much interest and a large number of applicants. Fifty-one applications were received in this new category and six were successful. Overall 217 applications were received for the awards offered by the PMC; sixty-one of these were successful. Nine Curatorial Research Grants were awarded from a total of twenty-three applications in that category. Publication Grants continued to be heavily oversubscribed; in total seventy-one Publication Grant applications were received, of which twenty-three were successful. The smaller awards offered, Research Support Grants and Educational Programme Grants, received a combined total of seventy-two applications and twenty-three grants were made.

The Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Trust, on whose behalf the PMC has administered a Research Support Grant for a number of years, decided to restructure their funding strands and to discontinue this award. It was therefore offered for the last time in Autumn 2015. The Andrew Wyld Research Support Grant, administered by the PMC on behalf of the Andrew Wyld Fund, was offered in the Autumn round.

The Spring 2016 round, which consists mainly of the five categories of Fellowship offered by the Centre, received 115 applications in total. There were, however, some unusual aspects on this occasion. Only one Senior Fellowship application was received and only four applications were received for the PMC Rome Fellowship. For the first time no award was made in either category, although in June 2016 it was decided to re-advertise the Rome Fellowship. The re-advertisement of this award resulted in nine applications and the awarding of the Rome Fellowship to an excellent candidate. In contrast to the Senior and Rome Fellowships, the other categories of Fellowship offered in Spring 2016 received a healthy number of applications. Five Mid-Career Fellowships were awarded from a field of thirteen applicants; nine Postdoctoral Fellowships from twenty-four applicants; and six Junior Fellowships from eleven applicants. The smaller awards of Research Support Grants and Educational Programme Grants received a combined number of sixty-two applications and twenty-eight grants were made.

The Conservation Fellowship for the academic year 2015/2016 of £25,000 was awarded by the Director of Studies to Gainsborough’s House for a Conservation and Research Project into Gainsborough’s painting practice.

Grant Awards Autumn 2015

At the October 2015 meeting of the Centre’s Advisory Council the following Grants were awarded:

Curatorial Research Grants

Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) was awarded £8,000 to help support a research curator to work on the project ICA Exhibition Histories

Southbank Centre, Hayward Gallery was awarded £7,500 to help support a research curator to work on the project Artistic History of the Hayward Gallery

Greenwich Foundation for the Old Royal Naval College was awarded £8,500 to help support a research curator to work on the project Painted Hall Conservation: Understanding Sir James Thornhill’s Masterpiece

National Museums Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery was awarded £10,000 to help support a research curator to work on the project Online Dictionary of the Liverpool Autumn Exhibitions and Spring Exhibitions (1871–1938)

National Horseracing Museum was awarded £10,000 to help support a research curator to work on the project British Sporting Art

Turner Contemporary was awarded £20,000 to help support a research curator to work on the project The Waste Land

The Munnings Art Museum was awarded £5,000 to help support a research curator to work on the project

Munnings’ Equine Oeuvre

Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (mima) was awarded £17,000 to help support a research curator to work on the project The New Boosbeck Industries: from Heartbreak Hill to High Street

Gainsborough’s House was awarded £20,000 to help support a research curator to work on the project Cataloguing and researching the collection of Gainsborough’s House

Digital Project Grants

Amy Jeffs was awarded £5,000 for work on the Digital Pilgrim Project (The British Museum’s collection of medieval pilgrims’ badges)

Buxton Museum and Art Gallery was awarded £10,000 for work on the project Depicting Derbyshire (Searchable catalogue of topographical views of Derbyshire)

Afterall, Central Saint Martins College, University of the Arts London was awarded £8,000 for work on the project The Other Story: British Art/ Exhibition Histories Online

Philip Cottrell/University College Dublin was awarded £5,000 for work on the project The George Scharf Manchester Art Treasures Sketchbooks 1856/7 (Online digital resource)

National Portrait Gallery was awarded £10,000 for work on the project Tudor and Jacobean Portraits (Online catalogue)

Courtauld Institute of Art was awarded £10,000 for work on the project Visualising British Art (Visualisation and advanced browsing of digital image catalogue)

Publication Grants (Author)

Anne Helmreich was awarded £1,700 towards the cost of publishing Nature's truth: photography, painting and science in Victorian Britain

Arnika Schmidt was awarded £2,000 towards the cost of publishing Nino Costa, 1826–1903: Transnational Exchange in European Landscape Painting

Ayla Lepine was awarded £1,500 towards the cost of publishing Medieval metropolis: the middle ages and modern architecture

Catherine Roach was awarded £3,000 towards the cost of publishing Pictures-within-pictures in nineteenthcentury Britain

Catriona Murray was awarded £1,500 towards the cost of publishing Imaging Stuart family politics: dynastic crisis and continuity

Christine Manley was awarded £2,000 towards the cost of publishing Twentieth century architects: Frederick Gibberd

Clare Backhouse was awarded £1,900 towards the cost of publishing Fashion and Popular Print in Early Modern England: Depicting Dress in Broadside Ballads

Alex Bremner was awarded £2,000 towards the cost of publishing Architecture and urbanism in the British Empire

Jane Kamensky was awarded £1,500 towards the cost of publishing Copley: a life in color

Martin Heale was awarded £500 towards the cost of publishing The abbots and priors of late Medieval and Reformation England

Michael Hunter was awarded £2,100 towards the cost of publishing The Image of Restoration Science: the frontispiece to Thomas Sprat’s ‘History of the Royal Society’, 1667

Temi Odumosu was awarded £2,700 towards the cost of publishing Africans in English caricature (1769–1819): Black Jokes, White Humour

Publication Grants (Publisher)

British Museum was awarded £7,000 towards the cost of publishing Natasha Awais-Dean: Bejewelled: men and jewellery in Tudor and Jacobean England

Leamington Spa Art Gallery and Museum was awarded £6,000 towards the cost of publishing Alice Swatton: The Art of Deception: The Work of the Leamington Camouflage Group in the Second World War

Royal Academy Publications was awarded £3,500 towards the cost of publishing Annette Wickham and Anna Frasca-Rath: John Gibson RA (1780–1866): the British Canova

I B Tauris was awarded £7,000 towards the cost of publishing Matt Lodder: Tattoo: An Art History

Liverpool University Press was awarded £5,000 towards the cost of publishing David Cross and Edward Morris: Public Sculpture of Lancashire and Cumbria

Penn State University Press was awarded £1,700 towards the cost of publishing

Anne Helmreich: Nature’s Truth: Photography, Painting, and Science In Victorian Britain

Yale University Press was awarded £5,000 towards the cost of publishing Robert Close, John Gifford and Frank A Walker: Buildings of Scotland Guide to Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire

Bitter Lemon Press was awarded £5,000 towards the cost of publishing Stephen Bann (ed.): Stonypath days: Letters between Ian Hamilton Finlay and Stephen Bann, January 1970–January 1972

LUX was awarded £6,700 towards the cost of publishing Mark Webber: Shoot Shoot Shoot: The First Decade of The London Film-Makers’ Co-Operative and British Avant-Garde Film 1966–1976

Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi was awarded £7,000 towards the cost of publishing Richard Marks: Windows and Wills: Glazing and Fenestration Bequests in Medieval England and Wales

Reaktion Books was awarded £3,500 towards the cost of publishing David Brown and Tom Williamson: Lancelot Brown and the Capability Men: Landscape Revolution in Eighteenth-Century England

Educational Programme Grants

National Gallery, London, was awarded £1,500 towards the costs of a two-day international conference Negotiating Art: Dealers and Museums 1855–2015

Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of York was awarded £1,900 towards the costs of a one-day conference Domesticating the exotic/ exoticising the domestic: transmitting and depicting products and animals in the global eighteenth-century world

Coventry University was awarded £1,800 towards the costs of a one-day symposium ‘Visions of the North': Reinventing the Germanic 'North' in Nineteenth-Century British Art and Visual Culture

Downing College, University of Cambridge was awarded £1,600 towards the costs of a one-day symposium Generation Painting: Abstraction and British Art, 1955–65

Edwardian Culture Network was awarded £1,100 towards the costs of a one-day symposium Englishness and the Edwardian Landscape

Birkbeck College, University of London was awarded £1,500 towards the costs of a three-day international conference Leonardo in Britain: Collections and Reception

University of Melbourne was awarded £1,500 towards the costs of a threeday international conference Human Kind: Transforming Identity in British and Australian Portraits 1700–1914

Paul Mellon Centre Research Support Grants

Alison Clarke was awarded £900 for research on Authenticity and Attribution in the Agnew's and National Gallery Archives 1855–1932

Clarrie Wallis was awarded £1,300 for research on Rose Wylie

Deepthi Murali was awarded £2,000 for research on The Agentive Gift: Luxury Objects as Political Brokers and Cultural Mediators in Malabar–British Encounters, 1750–1850

Elizabeth Sarah Berkowitz was awarded £2,000 for research on Bloomsbury's Byzantium and the Writing of Modern Art

Emily Knight was awarded £900 for research on Casting Presence: the Laurence Hutton Collection of Life and Death Masks

Fiona Mann was awarded £1,100 for research on Edward Coley-BurneJones: Oil Painting Methods and Materials 1857–1898

Grant Lewis was awarded £400 for research on Heraldry and Decorative Painting in Renaissance Scotland

Jo Applin was awarded £1,700 for research on Alison Wilding

Kaara Peterson was awarded £600 for research on Pictures of Health: Portraying the Virgin Queen in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century English Art, Literature and Culture

Katherine Jackson was awarded £1,000 for research on Total Economy: The Artist Placement Group in 1970s Britain

Lucy Curzon was awarded £2,000 for research on Women Artists at War: Gender, Modernism and National Identity, 1939–45

Margaret Schmitz was awarded £1,200 for research on ‘Magnificent Martianlike Monsters': The Futurist City of Alvin Langdon Coburn

Paula Murphy was awarded £600 for research on British- and IrishAmerican sculptors of Civil War monuments in New York

Rebecca Senior was awarded £1,000 for research on Allegorising Race: Sir Richard Westmacott’s Monument to Lord William Bentinck (1839) and the Abolition of the Sati

Renate Dohmen was awarded £2,000 for research on British Art in the Colonies: The Case of the Bombay Art Society

Tiffany Charlotte Boyle was awarded £1,300 for research on AfroScots: Tracing the Presence of Black Artists in Scotland from the 1800s onwards

Barns-Graham Research Support Grant (Funded by the Barns-Graham Charitable Trust)

Sophie Hatchwell was awarded £2,000 for research on Robert Colquhoun and Robert MacBryde: the Neo-Romantic Body and the Second World War

Andrew Wyld Research Support Grants (Funded by the Andrew Wyld Fund)

Rees Arnott-Davies was awarded £2,000 for research on Virtual Museums: Medicine, Old Masters and Jan van Rymsdyk’s Museum Britannicum

Fellowship and Grants Awards Spring

2016

At the March 2016 meeting of the Centre’s Advisory Council the following Fellowships and Grants were awarded:

Rome Fellowship

Phillip Prodger, National Portrait Gallery was awarded £19,800 for research on Oscar Rejlander and British art photography in Rome (This fellowship was awarded following re-advertisement in June 2016 and not at the March 2016 meeting)

Mid-Career Fellowships

Isabelle Baudino, Magdalene College, Cambridge/ENS de Lyon was awarded £12,000 to prepare her book Imagining the Past: Historical Illustrations in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Joseph Monteyne, University of British Colombia was awarded £12,000 to prepare his book Gillray’s Romanticism: Vision and Violence in Late Georgian London

Mia Bagneris, Tulane University was awarded £12,000 to prepare her book Imagining the Oriental South: The Enslaved Mixed-Race Beauty in British Visual Culture after 1865

Mrinalini Rajagopalan, University of Pittsburgh was awarded £12,000 to prepare her book From Common Courtesan to Designing Dowager: The Architecture of Begum Samru, 1805–1836

Tessa Wild was awarded £12,000 to prepare her book Red House – William Morris’s ‘Palace of Art’

Postdoctoral Fellowships

Alice Dolan, School of Advanced Studies, University of London/UCL was awarded £8,000 to prepare her book The Fabric of Life: Linen and Life Cycle in English Daily Life, 1678–1810

Claudia Tobin was awarded £8,000 to prepare her book Modern Stillness

Devika Singh, University of Cambridge was awarded £8,000 to prepare her book Art in India in its Global Contexts

Irene Sunwoo, Chicago Architecture

Biennial was awarded £8,000 to prepare her book Architectural Associations: A Continuing Experiment in Pedagogy

James Legard was awarded £8,000 to prepare his book Architecture and Ambition: The Building of Blenheim Palace

John Chu, National Trust was awarded £8,000 to prepare his book The Fortunes of Fancy Painting in Eighteenth-Century England

Louise Hardiman was awarded £8,000 to prepare her book The Firebird’s Flight: Russian Art in Britain, 1851–1917

Pandora Syperek was awarded £8,000 to prepare her book Jewels of the Natural History Museum: Gender, Display and the Nonhuman, 1851–1901

Rebecca Wade was awarded £8,000 to prepare her book Domenico Brucciani and the Formatori of NineteenthCentury Britain

Junior Fellowships

Brigid von Preussen, Columbia University was awarded £7,500 to conduct research in the United Kingdom for her doctoral thesis The Antique Made New: Commercial Classicism in Late Georgian Britain

Emily Casey, University of Delaware was awarded £7,500 to conduct research in the United Kingdom for her doctoral thesis Waterscapes: Representing the Sea in the American Imagination, 1760–1815 (Emily Casey was awarded a 12-month fellowship from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and did not take up the PMC Fellowship)

Julia Lum, Yale University was awarded £7,500 to conduct research in the United Kingdom for her doctoral thesis Pacific Empire: Colonial Landscape Aesthetics and Oceania, 1788–1848

Kirsty Dootson, Yale University was awarded £7,500 to conduct research in the United Kingdom for her doctoral thesis Industrial Color: Chromatic Technologies in Britain, 1856–1971

Noah Gentele, Yale University was awarded £7,500 to conduct research in the United Kingdom for his doctoral thesis Napoleon and the Timelines of Modernity: The Form and Sense of the Past in France and Britain, 1783–1852

Sria Chatterjee, Princeton University was awarded £7,500 to conduct research in the United Kingdom for her doctoral thesis Making Nature Matter: case studies in the politics of art and ecology in modern India

Educational Programme Grants

Tate was awarded £1,500 towards a workshop on John Constable’s ‘Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows’

University of Edinburgh, ESALA was awarded £2,000 towards a workshop on The 1980s in Britain: Towards an Architectural History

The Hepworth Wakefield was awarded £2,000 towards a symposium on Stanley Spencer: British Modernism and Religion

University of York was awarded £2,000 towards a conference on Sargentology: New Perspectives on the Works of John Singer Sargent

Dulwich Picture Gallery was awarded £2,000 towards a symposium on Never get Married!: A woman's experience of art institutions and the British art establishment between the wars

London College of Fashion was awarded £1,800 towards a conference on Exploring queer cultures and lifestyles in the creative arts in Britain c.1885–1967

Royal Institute of British Architects was awarded £500 towards a workshop on Leslie Martin – Art, Architecture and Academia

Kingston University was awarded £1,000 towards a symposium on Eadweard Muybridge in Kingston, 1894–1904

University of East Anglia was awarded £2,000 towards a conference on The Medieval Churches of Norwich

Vivid Projects was awarded £1,200 towards a symposium on AUTOICON: Reimaging Donald Rodney

Research Support Grants

Boris Sokolov was awarded £1,000 for research on British Sources for European and Russian Landscaping: Enlightenment to Romanticism

Brett Culbert was awarded £2,000 for research on Britain's Imperial Prospects and the Aesthetic Origins of the Scenographia Americana (1725–1775)

Caroline Dakers was awarded £500 for research on Recovering Fonthill: a cultural history

Claire Shepherd was awarded £1,100 for research on Surface Tensions: the painting techniques of Prunella Clough

Dervla MacManus was awarded £1,000 for research on Architectural Reveries: The Lantern Slides of Frederick Henry Evans

Hilary Matthews was awarded £1,000 for research on How did the British livestock paintings of the nineteenth century function within the society that produced them?

Jennifer Chuong was awarded £2,000 for research on The Projective Surface: Mottled Ceramic Surfaces in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain

Julien Domercq was awarded £2,000 for research on From Noble to Ignoble Savage: Early British Representations of the Pacific in Australian Collections

Lisa Haber-Thomson was awarded £2,000 for research on Architecture and judicial procedure in British prison buildings of the early 19th century

Meaghan Whitehead was awarded £2,000 for research on Painted Cycles in the Residences of Henry III of England, 1216–1272

Oliver Fearon was awarded £500 for research on Shield of Light: The Making and Experience of Heraldic Stained Glass Windows in the Houses of England's Minor Gentry c.1460–1620

Sarah Hendriks was awarded £500 for research on Buildings for Music in London: 1660–1750

Sileas Wood was awarded £300 for research on John Brand: Antiquary and Artist

Sophie Elisabeth Morris was awarded £2,000 for research on Drawn and Quartered: Anatomy and Print Culture in Seventeenth-Century London

Stephen Barber was awarded £1,900 for research on Eadweard Muybridge at the Chicago World's Columbian Exposition of 1893

Tamsin Foulkes was awarded £700 for research on Transcribing James Thornhill's Paris Notebook, 1717

Tom Young was awarded £2,000 for research on Autonomy to Assimilation: Art and the Politics of the East India Company 1813–1858

Veronica Uribe was awarded £1,500 for research on Joseph Brown junior and his travels in Colombia (1826–1841)