Fellowships and Grants

July 2017–June 2018

Autumn 2017

At the October 2017 meeting of the Centre’s Advisory Council, the following Grants were awarded:

Curatorial Research Grants

Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery was awarded £10,000 to help support a research curator to work on the project Collecting the Art of the Book in the Industrial North West

Four Corners, London, was awarded £15,000 to help support a research curator to work on the project A Radical Vision: Community Film and Photography in 1970–80s London

The Holburne Museum, Bath, was awarded £15,000 to help support a research curator to work towards an exhibition on Thomas Lawrence’s early career

Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac University was awarded £15,000 to help support a research curator to work on the project Primitivism and the Picturesque: British Artists in Ireland during the Great Hunger (1840–1860)

*This project was cancelled in July 2018*

Manchester Art Gallery was awarded £10,000 to help support a research curator to work on the project Speech Acts

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

York Art Gallery and York Museums Trust were awarded £18,000 to help support a research curator to work on the project Turner, Ruskin and the Storm Cloud of the Modern World

Digital Project Grants

The British Library was awarded £36,000 towards research and essay commissions for the Voices of Art website derived from the Artists’ Lives oral history project

University of York was awarded £40,000 towards the Art World in Britain 2.0 project to expand and reconfigure The Art World in Britain 1600 to 1735 website

Publication Grants

Amsterdam University Press was awarded £4,580 towards the cost of publishing Godefridus Schalcken: A Dutch Painter in Late Seventeenth-Century London

Susanna Avery-Quash and Birkbeck, University of London were awarded £4,738 towards the cost of publishing Leonardo in Britain

Tim Ayers and Boydell & Brewer were awarded £4,500 towards the cost of publishing The Building Accounts for St Stephen’s Chapel, Westminster, 1292–1396

Joanna Barnes was awarded £3,000 towards the cost of publishing An Arsenal of Essays: A Gedenkschrift to Benedict Read (working title)

Compton Verney House Trust was awarded £3,000 towards the cost of publishing Whistler and Nature

Silvia Davoli and The Strawberry Hill Trust were awarded £5,000 towards the cost of publishing Lost Treasures of Strawberry Hill, Masterpieces from Horace Walpole’s Collection

Sonja Drimmer and University of Massachusetts were awarded £8,748 towards the cost of publishing The Art of Allusion: Illuminators and the Making of Middle English Literature, 1403–1476

Hannah Field and University of Minnesota were awarded £3,000 towards the cost of publishing Novelty Value: Moveable Picture Books and the Child Reader in Victorian Britain

Polly Gould was awarded £2,180 towards the cost of publishing Art through Antarctica: Atmosphere, Anthropology and Architecture in the life of Edward Wilson

Sarah Grant was awarded £1,848 towards the cost of publishing Female Portraiture and Patronage in Marie Antoinette’s Court: The Princesse de Lamballe

Anthony Hamber and Oak Knoll Press were awarded £4,000 towards the cost of publishing Photography and the 1851 Great Exhibition

Hamburger Kunsthalle was awarded £4,000 towards the cost of publishing Thomas Gainsborough: The Modern Landscape

The Hepworth Wakefield was awarded £5,000 towards the cost of publishing Lee Miller and Surrealism in Britain

Paul Holberton Publishing was awarded £2,000 towards the cost of publishing Henry Lamb

Alexandra Kokoli was awarded £1,680 towards the cost of publishing Tracy Emin: Art into Life

Arthur MacGregor was awarded £3,000 towards the cost of publishing Company Curiosities: Nature, Culture, and the East India Company, 1600–1874

Robert Mills and Boydell & Brewer were awarded £2,035 towards the cost of publishing Derek Jarman’s Medieval Modern

National Portrait Gallery was awarded £2,000 towards the cost of publishing Gainsborough’s Family Album

Public Monuments and Sculpture Association was awarded £4,000 towards the cost of publishing Public Sculpture of Edinburgh, Vol. 2: “The New Town, Leith and Outer Suburbs”

Matthew Reeve was awarded £2,500 towards the cost of publishing Gothic Architecture, Sexuality and Aesthetics in the Circle of Horace Walpole

David Rundle was awarded £2,840 towards the cost of publishing The Renaissance Reform of the Book and Britain: The English Quattrocento

Gregory Salter was awarded £1,619 towards the cost of publishing Art and Masculinity in Post-War Britain: Reconstructing Home

Detail from JMW Turner, The Dormitory and Transept of Fountains Abbey, Evening, exhibited 1798, York Art Gallery. Part of the Turner, Ruskin and the Storm Cloud of the Modern World exhibition at York Art Gallery, supported by a Curatorial Research Grant in 2017

Julia Sienkewicz and University of Delaware Press were awarded £3,000 towards the cost of publishing Epic Landscapes: Benjamin Henry Latrobe and the Art of Watercolour

Laura Slater was awarded £2,000 towards the cost of publishing Art and Political Thought in Medieval England, c.1150–1350

Pandora Syperek was awarded £788 towards the cost of publishing the article “Crystal Virtues: Ruskin and Gender in the Natural History Museum”

The Twentieth Century Society was awarded £1,000 towards the cost of publishing Alison and Peter Smithson

Van Abbemuseum was awarded £3,000 towards the cost of publishing The Place is Here: A Montage of Black Art in 1980s Britain

Robert Wilkes was awarded £364 towards the cost of publishing Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s Watercolours of the 1860s

Yale University Press was awarded £4,000 towards the cost of publishing The Buildings of Ireland: Central Leinster

Yale University Press was awarded £4,000 towards the cost of publishing The Buildings of Ireland: Cork

Educational Programme Grants

Downing College, Cambridge was awarded £1,700 towards the cost of the Elizabeth Frink symposium

Leeds Beckett University was awarded £800 towards the cost of the Untold Stories of the Country House conference

University of the Arts London was awarded £200 towards the cost of the Gluck: Art and Identity symposium

University of Birmingham was awarded £2,700 towards the cost of the Art on the Move: Mobility in the Long Nineteenth Century conference

University of Edinburgh was awarded £700 towards the cost the Building the Scottish Diaspora: Scots and the Colonial Built Environment, c.1700–1920 conference

University of Nottingham was awarded £2,600 towards the cost of the Nottingham Castle Museum two-day conference

University of York was awarded £500 towards the cost of the Nature’s Incision: Collage and Nature conference

Victoria and Albert Museum was awarded £750 towards the cost of the Ocean Liners conference

Research Support Grants

Veronica Bremer was awarded £900 for research on “The Simpson Department Store: A Platform for Modernist Artistic Production and Exchange”

Lobke Geurs was awarded £1,800 for research on “A Taste of Hope and Dalton: Changing Perceptions of Egypt and the Near East in the Eighteenth Century, 1749–1797”

Samuel Grinsell was awarded £1,900 for research on “British Imperial Architecture in the Nile Valley”

Georgia Haseldine was awarded £2,000 for research on “Portraits of Ireland’s Reform Movement, 1779–1800”

Sophie Hatchwell was awarded £1,100 for research on “Modernism and the East Midlands: Public Galleries and the Acquisition of Modern Art, 1920–1940”

Amanda Luyster was awarded £2,000 for research on “English Visions of the East: Henry III, the Crusades, and the Cosmopolitan Cultures of Display in Thirteenth-Century England”

Margaret J. Schmitz was awarded £1,000 for research on “Abstracting New York in Wyndham Lewis’s ‘Vorticist Universe’”

Gemma Sharpe was awarded £2,000 for research on “Pakistani Printmaking in Britain from Chughtai to the Neo-Miniature Movement”

Achim Timmermann was awarded £2,000 for research on “The Gothic Fulcrum: The English Market Cross and its Audiences”

Aaron White was awarded £2,000 for research on “English Architecture in the Age of Colonisation, 1585–1642”

Paul Willis was awarded £2,000 for research on “To look more like a man of some business and consequence, no dangler nor idler – Sir Joshua Reynolds’ Grand Tour Sketchbooks”

Alison Wright was awarded £600 for research on “British Sporting and Animal Art, 1760–1840: A Critical History of its Production, Reception, Collection and Display”

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

Vincent Pham was awarded £2,000 for research on “Chesterfield House Portraits: Display, Reception, Reconstruction”

Zalina Teremazova was awarded £2,000 for research on “Multicolour Prints by Gabriel Skorodumov (1754–1792) in the Collections of British Museum”

Spring 2018

At the March 2018 meeting of the Centre’s Advisory Council, the following Grants were awarded:

Yuthika Sharma, University of Edinburgh, was awarded £8,000 to prepare In the Realm of Kings and Sahibs: The Delhi School and Anglo-Mughal Painting

Moran Sheleg, University College London, was awarded £8,000 to prepare her book Bridget Riley’s Grey Zones

Senior Fellowships

Tim Clayton was awarded £32,000 to prepare his book James Gillray and the Business of Satire

Elizabeth McKellar, Open University, was awarded £32,000 to prepare her book John Summerson: A Cultural Biography

Carol Richardson, University of Edinburgh, was awarded £32,000 to prepare her book The Last English Catholic Church Remaining in the World: Art and Sacred Geography in the 1580s

Rome Fellowship

Francesco Ventrella, University of Sussex, was awarded £19,800 for research in Rome on Performing Ancient Sculpture: Vernon Lee and Psychological Aesthetics

Mid-Career Fellowships

Juliet Carey, Waddesdon Manor, was awarded £12,000 to prepare her book Boys in Satin: Gainsborough and ‘Van Dyck’ Dress

Deirdre Jackson, University of Cambridge, was awarded £12,000 to prepare her book Picturing Speech in English Illuminated Manuscripts before 1500

Marius Kwint, University of Portsmouth, was awarded £12,000 to prepare his book British Art on the Brain: Neuroscience and Visual Art in the UK since 1970

Katie Lloyd Thomas, Newcastle University, was awarded £12,000 to prepare her book The Architect as Shopper

Morna O’Neill, Wake Forest University, was awarded £12,000 to prepare her book Art and Brutality: British Art and Industrial Manufacture, 1820–1851

Gemma Romain was awarded £12,000 to prepare her book Berto Pasuka and Queer Black British Art

Chloe Wigston Smith, University of York, was awarded £12,000 to prepare her book Women and Entangled Things in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World

Postdoctoral Fellowships

Alexander Collins, University of Edinburgh, was awarded £8,000 to prepare his book Magnifying the Mass: Scale, Space and Ritual Experience of the Late Medieval Missal

Anjalie Dalal-Clayton, University of the Arts London, was awarded £8,000 to prepare her book Curating Black British Art: Exhibition Cultures Since the 1980s

Charlotte Drew, University of Bristol, was awarded £8,000 to prepare her book Displaying Italian Sculpture: South Kensington Reimagined

Serena Dyer, University of Warwick, was awarded £8,000 to prepare her book Material Lives and Material Literacies: Women, Consumption, and Textiles in England, 1750–1820

Freya Gowrley, University of Edinburgh, was awarded £8,000 to prepare her book Collage before Modernism: Art, Intimacy and Identity in Britain and North America, 1680–1912

Irit Katz, University of Cambridge, was awarded £8,000 to prepare his book Camps in Mandatory Palestine: The Emergence of Temporary Architecture as a Regional Political Instrument

Merlin Seller, Norwich University of the Arts, was awarded £8,000 to prepare his book Material Memory: The Late Work of Walter Sickert 1927-42

Giulia Smith, The Courtauld Institute of Art, was awarded £8,000 to prepare her book Women of Tomorrow

David Trigg was awarded £8,000 to prepare his book A Slow-Cooked Bird: Ben Nicholson and the Penguin Modern Painters

Junior Fellowships

Aleksandr Bierig was awarded £7,500 to conduct research in the United Kingdom for his dissertation “The Ashes of the City: Energy, Economy, and the London Coal Exchange”

Carly Boxer was awarded £7,500 to conduct research in the United Kingdom for her dissertation “It owip to be lokid: The Visual Culture of English Medicine”

Jackson Davidow was awarded £7,500 to conduct research in the United Kingdom for his dissertation “Viral Visions: Art, Epidemiology, and Spatial Practices in the Global AIDS Pandemic”

Salvatore Dellaria was awarded £7,500 to conduct research in the United Kingdom for his dissertation “James Stirling’s Southgate Estate and Architecture under Constraint in Postwar and Postmodern Britain, 1946–1992”

Erika Dupont was awarded £7,500 to conduct research in the United Kingdom for her dissertation “English Art and France during the Interwar Period: Presence and Reception of English Artists in Paris from 1919 to 1939”

Michal Goldschmidt was awarded £7,500 to conduct research in the United Kingdom for his doctoral thesis “Interwar Explorations of Empire and British Identity: Studies of Modernism in Mandate Palestine”

Christine Olson was awarded £7,500 to conduct research in the United Kingdom for her dissertation “Owen Jones and the Epistemologies of Victorian Design”

Nicholas Robbins was awarded £7,500 to conduct research in the United Kingdom for his dissertation “Oceans of Air: Landscape and the Production of Climate in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World”

Terra-PMC Fellowship

Alison Clarke, University of Liverpool and National Gallery, was awarded £9,500 to conduct research in the United States for a book chapter and article “British Art Dealers and American Museums: David Croal Thomson’s 1898 Visit to the United States”

Educational Programme Grants

The Art Libraries Society UK & Ireland was awarded £1,500 to support The Art Libraries Society UK & Ireland (ARLIS) conference

Association for Art History was awarded £850 to support the (Re)-forming Sculpture symposium

The Hepworth Wakefield was awarded £1,500 to support the Surrealism in Britain, 1925–1955 conference

Impressions Gallery of Photography was awarded £3,000 to support the Feed Your Mind lecture series

Irish Georgian Society was awarded £1,500 to support the Irish Silver in the Georgian Age conference

Kunstmuseum Basel was awarded £2,000 to support the Fuseli. Drama and Theatre lecture series

Manchester Metropolitan University was awarded £2,900 to support the Post-War Modernist Infrastructure conference

Museum of Classical Archaeology, University of Cambridge was awarded £2,400 to support The Humility of Plaster conference

Turner Contemporary was awarded £3,000 to support the Patrick Heron: His Painting Now symposium

UCL Art Museum was awarded £1,500 to support the Making Ends Meet: Women in Art Education symposium

University of Leeds was awarded £1,500 to support The Gregory Fellowships symposium

Research Support Grants

Grace Aneiza Ali was awarded £1,900 for research on “Frank Bowling: Mother’s House”

Roisin Astell was awarded £2,000 for research on “Form Corporeal to Divine Vision: Imagining the Spiritual Journey in Thirteenth and Fourteenth-Century Paris and Beyond”

Sarah Crellin was awarded £2,000 for research on “The Royal Academy, The Home Office and the Artists’ Refugee Committee: Establishments, Alliances and Interned Émigré artists in World War Two”

Renate Dohmen was awarded £2,000 for research on “Colonial Art in British India: Power, Gender and Race under the Raj”

Pamella Guerdat was awarded £2,000 for research on “A Heritage Under Construction: René Gimpel (1881–1945) and the Development of Private and Public Collections”

Sara Honarmand Ebrahimi was awarded £1,400 for research on “The Medical Missionaries of the Church Missionary Society (CMS) as Trust Builders”

Kate Keohane was awarded £2,000 for research on Édouard Glissant

Brittany Luberda was awarded £2,000 for research on “Hardstones on Fragile Surfaces: Negotiating Neoclassicism in the 1760s”

Christopher McGeorge was awarded £2,000 for research on “Mediums for the Masses: Stained Glass and Murals in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”

Lydia Miller was awarded £2,000 for research on “Forging Identity: Ambrose McEvoy (1877–1927) and the development of Modern British Portraiture”

Avigail Moss was awarded £1,900 for research on “Actuarial Imaginaries of Art and Empire, 1800–1914”

Tom Nickson was awarded £1,400 for research on “Mapping Becket”

Emily Pegues was awarded £1,300 for research on “The Armored Body and Sculptural Practice in Medieval English Brass Tomb Effigies”

Kelly Presutti was awarded £2,000 for research on “Strategic Vision: Artists in the Service of the Royal Navy”

Maria Quinata was awarded £2,000 for research on Heritage Sites: Zones of Leisure, Spaces of Desire

Kate Retford was awarded £2,000 for research on “The Print Room in the Eighteenth-Century Country House”

Corinne Silva was awarded £2,000 for research on “Lines in the Landscape: Ruins and Reveals in Britain”

Tyler Jo Smith was awarded £2,000 for research on “Collecting Sir John Soane’s ‘Antique’ Vases”

Ksenia Soboleva was awarded £2,000 for research on “Lesbian Artists & the AIDS Crisis: Tessa Boffin”

Rachel Warriner was awarded £2,000 for research on “Feminist Art, the Troubles and the Politics of Apace: Nancy Spero at the Orchard Gallery, Derry”

Detail from Matthew Pratt, The American School, 1765, Metropolitan Museum, Gift of Samuel P. Avery 1897. Used to advertise the new Terra-PMC Fellowship, introduced Spring 2018