Fellowships and Grants 2016–2017

Over the summer of 2016, following the retirement of Mary Smith, Grants Manager, responsibility for managing and operating the Fellowships and Grants Programme was assumed by Dr Martin Postle, Deputy Director of Grants and Publications, and Harriet Fisher, Fellowships, Grants and Communications Officer.

The Digital Project Grant, introduced in autumn 2015, attracted fewer applications in autumn 2016, possibly due to the revision of the terms and conditions, which demanded more detailed information from applicants regarding the nature and sustainability of the technical structures supporting their digital projects. In total nineteen applications were received; five were successful. Overall, in the autumn round, 214 applications were received for the awards offered by the PMC, of which seventy-eight were successful. A total of nineteen applications were made for Curatorial Research Grants, of which eight were awarded. Publication Grants received a total of eighty-eight applications: fortyfour for author costs and forty-four for publisher costs. A total of eighteen grants were awarded to authors and twenty grants to publishers; a grand total of thirtyeight. Once more, a comparatively large number of applications were made for the smaller Research Support Grants; out of a total of fifty-nine applications, twenty grants were awarded. Educational Programme Grants received sixteen applications in the autumn and eight grants were awarded. The Andrew Wyld Research Support Grant attracted three applications and two awards were given.

The Spring 2017 round of awards was devoted to the five categories of Fellowship offered by the Centre, as well as the Research Support Grant and the Educational Programme Grant. In total 131 applications were received, which was lower overall than in recent years. Forty applications were successful. The Junior Fellowship attracted only nine applicants, of which five were successful.

The Post-Doctoral Fellowship, in comparison, attracted twenty-eight applicants, of which five were successful. There was also stronger competition for the MidCareer Fellowship, which attracted twenty-one applications, of which five were successful. Thirteen applications were received for Senior Fellowships, and two were awarded. The Rome Fellowship, which has continued to attract surprisingly few applicants, received only two applications, and one applicant was duly awarded the Fellowship. The Research Support Grant once more proved very popular and attracted fifty applications, of which fourteen were successful. There were twelve applications for Educational Programme Grants, and five awards were made.

The Conservation Fellowship of £25,000 for the academic year 2016–17 was awarded by the Director of Studies once more to Gainsborough’s House for continued work on the Discovering Early Gainsborough Project.

A new series of lunchtime lectures given by the recipients of PMC Fellowships was inaugurated in May 2017. This first Fellows Lunch series proved successful, with a high attendance for each of the four talks. Plans were made for another such series to take place in the Autumn.

Grant Awards Autumn 2016

At the October 2016 meeting of the Centre’s Advisory Council, the following Grants were awarded:

Celeste-Marie Bernier was awarded £3,000 towards the cost of publishing

Inside the Invisible: Slavery and Memory in the Works of Lubaina Himid (1985–2015)

Dr Spike Bucklow was awarded £1,000 towards the cost of publishing

The Anatomy of Riches – Sir Robert Paston's Treasures

Curatorial Research Grants

Impressions Gallery, Bradford was awarded £12,000 to help support a research curator to work on the project No Man's Land: Women's Photography and the First World War

John Rylands Research Institute/ Special Collections The University of Manchester Library was awarded £8,000 to help support a research curator to work on the project Out of the Ether: Online Catalogue of the Victorian British Photography Collection 1844–1900 in the Special Collections of the University of Manchester Library

Museums Sheffield was awarded £15,000 to help support a research curator to work on the project “The Kitchen Sink Too”: British Art 1945–1975 from Sheffield’s Collection

Teesside University was awarded £15,000 to help support a research curator to work on the project The New Boosbeck Industries: From Heartbreak Hill to High Street

The Charterhouse was awarded £8,000 to help support a research curator to work on the project The Charterhouse Painting Research Project

The Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge was awarded £10,000 to help support a research curator to work on the project Illuminated Britain: Manuscripts from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales in Cambridge Collections

The Foundling Museum was awarded £4,500 to help support a research curator to work on the project Basic Instincts

Wolfson College was awarded £7,500 to help support a research curator to work on the project Envisioning South Asia: Men, Machines and Materials

Digital Project Grants

Art UK was awarded £20,000 for a Digital Content and Research Assistant to add works on paper to Art UK

Cambridge University was awarded £15,000 for work on the project Digital Pilgrim 2

Carnegie Museum of Art was awarded £20,000 for work on the project Northbrook Project

University of Chester was awarded £20,000 for work on the project The Reception of English Saints’ Shrines as Tangible Art: A Digital Barometer

University of Nottingham was awarded £5,000 for work on the project Lincoln Cathedral Interactive Digital Archive

Publication Grants (Author)

Jasmine Allen was awarded £1,400 towards the cost of publishing Stained Glass and the International Exhibitions, 1851–1900

Jo Applin was awarded £2,500 towards the cost of publishing London Art Worlds: Mobile, Contingent, and Ephemeral Networks 1960–1960

Anuradha Chatterjee was awarded £1,700 towards the cost of publishing Surfacing the Fabric of Architecture: John Ruskin's Adorned "Wall Veil"

Caroline Elam was awarded £3,000 towards the cost of publishing Roger Fry and Italian Art

Alicia Foster was awarded £3,000 towards the cost of publishing Jessica Dismorr and her Contemporaries

Anna S. Frasca-Rath was awarded £3,000 towards the cost of publishing John Gibson. Die Canova Rezeption in Großbritannien (John Gibson. The Reception of Canova in Great Britain)

Caroline Fuchs was awarded £1,000 towards the cost of publishing "Retinabilder. Ästhetik, Diskussionen und Gebrauch der Autochromfotografie in Großbritannien" ("Retinal Images: Aesthetics, Discussions and Use of Autochrome Photography in Britain")

Victoria Jackson was awarded £900 towards the cost of publishing Speaking Plates: Text, Performance, and Banqueting Trenchers in Early Modern Britain

JoAnne Mancini was awarded £3,000 towards the cost of publishing Art and War in the Pacific World

Kester Rattenbury was awarded £1,500 towards the cost of publishing The Wessex Project: Thomas Hardy, Architect

Michel Remy was awarded £2,000 towards the cost of publishing Eileen Agar, Dreaming Oneself Awake

Jacqueline Riding was awarded £1,500 towards the cost of publishing Basic Instincts

David Taylor was awarded £500 towards the cost of publishing Plotting Politics: Caricature, Parody, and Literary History

Matthew Walker was awarded £1,000 towards the cost of publishing Architects, Builders and Intellectual Culture in PostRestoration England

Publication Grants (Publisher)

Eric and Salome Estorick Foundation was awarded £3,500 towards the cost of publishing War in the Sunshine: The British In Italy in 1917–18 Through the Eyes of Official War Artists Sydney Carline (1888–1929), Ernest Brooks (1878–1941?) and William Joseph Brunell (1878–?)

Leeds Art Fund was awarded £3,500 towards the cost of publishing Wallpapers at Temple Newsam House, a catalogue of the collection

Liverpool University Press was awarded £3,500 towards the cost of publishing Inside the Invisible: Slavery and Memory in the Works of Lubaina Himid (1985–2015)

Lund Humphries was awarded £1,500 towards the cost of publishing Enid Marx monograph

Lund Humphries was awarded £2,250 towards the cost of publishing Cook's Camden: Creating a New Model for Urban Housing

Mount Stuart Trust was awarded £3,500 towards the cost of publishing Collecting Power: The Art Collection of John Stuart, Third Earl of Bute (1713–1791)

National Portrait Gallery of Australia was awarded £3,500 towards the cost of publishing Dempsey's People: British Street Portraits 1824–44

Nottingham City Museums and Galleries was awarded £3,500 towards the cost of publishing The Ballantyne Collection of 20th-century British Studio Ceramics

Paul Holberton Publishing was awarded £3,500 towards the cost of publishing Roger Fry

Paul Holberton Publishing was awarded £1,500 towards the cost of publishing British Art: Ancient Landscapes

Paul Holberton Publishing was awarded £1,750 towards the cost of publishing Creating the Countryside: The Rural Idyll Now and Then

Petworth House (National Trust) was awarded £3,500 towards the cost of publishing William Blake in Sussex

Public Monuments and Sculpture Association was awarded £6,500 towards the cost of publishing The Public Sculpture of Edinburgh

Reaktion Books was awarded £3,500 towards the cost of publishing Eileen Agar: Dreaming Oneself Awake

RIBA Publishing was awarded £3,000 towards the cost of publishing 66 Portland Place: Architecture, Identity and the Royal Institute of British Architects

The Holburne Museum was awarded £3,000 towards the cost of publishing Gainsborough and the Theatre

The Pennsylvania State University was awarded £2,500 towards the cost of publishing London Art Worlds: Mobile, Contingent, and Ephemeral Networks, 1960–1980

UCL Press was awarded £3,000 towards the cost of publishing Recovering Fonthill

Whitechapel Gallery was awarded £3,500 towards the cost of publishing Eduardo Paolozzi – Image-Breaking Image-Making

Educational Programme Grants

Birkbeck, University of London was awarded £2,000 towards the cost of a one-day conference Knowing “as much of art as the cat”: Nineteenth-century Women Writers on the Old Masters

British Film Institute was awarded £1,000 towards the costs of a lecture series Researching, Curating and Creating: Engaging with British Artists’ Film at the BFI Reuben Library

Oxford Brookes University was awarded £2,600 towards the costs of a two-day conference Architecture, Citizenship, Space: British Architecture from the 1920s to the 1970s

Tate Britain was awarded £2,000 towards the costs of a two-day conference From Then to Now: Contemporary Artistic Perspectives on Making Queer Visible

The Courtauld Institute of Art was awarded £2,000 towards the costs of a two-day conference Towards an Art History of the English Parish Church, 1200–1399

University College London was awarded £1,200 toward the costs of a one-day conference To Draw the Line: Partitions, Dissonance, Art – a Case for South Asia

University of St Andrews was awarded £1,200 towards the costs of a two-day conference In and Out of American Art: Between Provincialism and Transnationalism, 1940–1980

University of York was awarded £3,000 towards the costs of a one-day workshop Display Histories: Houses, Galleries, Museums

Research Support Grants

Marie Bourke was awarded for £1,000 for research on the exhibition of Sir Frederic William Burton (1816–1900)

Virginia Brilliant was awarded £2,000 for research on The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art: Catalogue of British Paintings

Melissa Buron was awarded £2,000 for research on James Tissot (1836–1902) and the Visual Language of Spiritualism in Late Nineteenth-century British Art

Richard Butler was awarded £1,800 for research on Public Architecture in Ireland, c. 1750–1850: Designs for Provincial Courthouses and Prisons

Helen Draper was awarded £1,000 for research on 1677: Picture a Year

Miranda Elston was awarded £1,000 for research on Spatial Interaction: Architectural Representations as Interface in Early Tudor England (1509–1547)

Alison FitzGerald was awarded £1,300 for research on Copy Casts: James Tassie and Henry Quin – the Intersection of Enlightenment Worlds

Alicia Foster was awarded £2,000 for research on Jessica Dismorr and Her Contemporaries

Emre Gönlügür was awarded £1,500 for research on Unheimlich in Foreign Land? Sir Henry Bulwer’s Gothic Mansion in Constantinople

Timothy Hyde was awarded £1,000 for research on Dread of Beauty: Architecture, Judgment, and Ugliness

Margaret Lacono was awarded £1,000 for research on Acquisitions and Alliances: The Life and Times of Charles Stewart Carstairs (1865–1928)

Perrin Lathrop was awarded £2,000 for research on A Sublime Art: Akinola Lasekan and Colonial Modernism in Nigeria

Ashley Mason was awarded £1,400 for research on A Coincidental Plot: Through the “Charged Void”

Julian North was awarded £1,200 for research on Portraits of Dickens: Portraiture and Public Intimacy in Victorian Britain (1830–1880)

Alice Ottazzi was awarded £2,000 for research on Shaping International Reputations: Reconstructing the Activity of British Artists in 18th-century Paris, an Aspect of the Reception of the English School in France

Ben Pollitt was awarded £2,000 for research on John Webber in Hawaii

Rodolfo Acevedo Rodriguez was awarded £1,200 for research on New Definitions on Fourteenth-century Gatehouses

Siddhartha Shah was awarded £2,000 for research on Victoria's Picturesque Natives: Ornamental Indians at Osborne House, as Servants and Subjects

Ezra Shales was awarded £1,000 for research on Reevaluating David Pye

Mengting Yu was awarded £1,000 for research on “A Talented and Decorative Group”: the Slade Women and London’s Avant-Garde 1910–1914

Andrew Wyld Research Support Grants

Funded by the Andrew Wyld Fund

Alicia Hughes was awarded £2,000 for research on Drawing Dissections: Jan van Rymsdyk and Anatomical Illustration in the 18th Century

Lindsay Wells was awarded £1,000 for research on A New Floriography: The Flower Book Watercolors of Edward Burne-Jones