Fellowships and Grants

July 2018–June 2019

Autumn 2018

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

Curatorial Research Grants

The Royal Society of Sculptors was awarded £28,000 to help support a research curator to work on the project Pioneering Women at the Heart of the Royal Society of Sculptors

Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum was awarded £24,000 to help support a research curator to work on the project Frederick Cayley Robinson ‘Forgotten’ Artist: Spiritual Art, Feminism and British Culture, 1890–1930 (working title)

University of the Witwatersrand was awarded £20,000 to help support a research curator work on the project British Plans on the Mines: Drawing Resources from the Witwatersrand, 1885–1945

The British Museum was awarded £40,000 to help support a research curator to work on the project Thomas Becket: Martyrdom and Myth (working title)

Bristol Archives was awarded £23,500 to help support a research curator to work on the project One Vast Interconnected World: The British Experience of Empire as Represented in Photographs from the British Empire and Commonwealth Collection

The National Trust was awarded £40,000 to help support a research curator to work on the project Mapping Sculpture in National Trust Collections

Digital Project Grants

Institute of Contemporary Arts was awarded £40,000 towards creating a digital historical timeline for the Institute of Contemporary Arts from 1946 to the present day

Watts Gallery was awarded £40,000 to support four six-month fellowships for early career researchers to work on the Watts Gallery – Artists’ Village project

Publication Grants

Alan Powers was awarded £3,000 towards publishing Commercial Architecture

Alison FitzGerald was awarded £3,000 towards publishing Studies in Irish Georgian Silver

The Hepworth Wakefield was awarded £9,400 towards publishing Magdalene Odundo: The Journey of Things

Institute of Contemporary Arts was awarded £10,000 towards publishing Institute of Contemporary Arts, 1969–1989

Pallant House Gallery was awarded £7,000 towards publishing Glyn Philpot: Coming Out as a Modernist

Claire Jones was awarded £1,930 towards publishing Sculpture in Britain, 1837–1901: Contested Experiments

Devika Singh and Reaktion Books were awarded £10,000 towards publishing Modern Art in India and its Global Context

Diane Waggoner was awarded £3,000 towards publishing Lewis Carroll: Photography and Modern Childhood

Matthew Reeve and The Pennsylvania State University were awarded £6,920 towards publishing Gothic Architecture, Sexuality, and Aesthetics in the Circle of Horace Walpole

Gill Hedley and I. B. Tauris were awarded £8,860 towards publishing Love, Art: The Life of Arthur Jeffress

Jonty Tarbuck and Locus+ were awarded £5,000 towards publishing Morris & Steedman: The Modernist House

Corning Museum of Glass was awarded £10,000 towards publishing In Sparkling Company: Reflections on Glass in 18th Century Britain

Laing Art Gallery was awarded £7,000 towards publishing The Enchanted Interior

Yale University Press was awarded £4,000 towards publishing The Pocket: A Hidden History of Women’s Lives, 1690–1900

Archipelago Press was awarded £7,000 towards publishing SOLD! 200 Years of Antique Dealing in Britain

Meaghan Clarke was awarded £3,000 towards publishing Fashionability, Exhibition Culture and Gender Politics: Fair Women

Boydell & Brewer was awarded £1,200 towards publishing The Eglantine Table: Elizabethan Musical Instruments in Marquetry at Hardwick Hall

Peter Humfrey was awarded £3,000 towards publishing The Stafford Gallery: The Greatest Art Collection of Regency London

Geoffrey Quilley was awarded £3,000 towards publishing British Art and the East India Company

Rachel Delman was awarded £230 towards publishing the article Gendered Iconography and Female Authority in Alice Chaucer, Duchess of Suffolk’s Residence at Ewelme, Oxfordshire

Rebecca Searle was awarded £1,600 towards publishing Art, Propaganda and Aerial Warfare in Britain during the Second World War

Mercer Art Gallery was awarded £5,000 towards publishing William Powell Frith: The People’s Painter

Public Monuments and Sculpture Association was awarded £6,860 towards publishing Public Sculpture of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea

MIT Press was awarded £4,000 towards publishing The Locked Room – Four Years that Shook Art Education in Britain, 1969–1973

York Art Gallery was awarded £7,000 towards publishing Ruskin, Turner & the Storm Cloud

Timothy Brittain-Catlin was awarded £3,000 towards publishing The Edwardians and their Houses (working title)

Timothy Wilcox was awarded £3,000 towards publishing James Tower, 1919–1988: Potter, Sculpture, Painter

Zuleika Murat was awarded £550 towards publishing English Alabaster Carvings in Their Context

Educational Programme Grants

Centre for Feminist Research, University of London was awarded £2,000 to support the symposium Beyond Lesbian Constellations

The University of Manchester was awarded £1,600 to support the symposium The Artist of the Future Age: William Blake, Neo-Romanticisms, Counterculture and Now

BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art was awarded £3,000 to support the symposium Rasheed Araeen

Circle of John Linnell (after William Blake), Illustrations of the Book of Job, Plate 15 (Page 14): The Creation (detail), undated, 14.6 x 9.5 cm. Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Art and Christianity was awarded £1,500 to support the series of five symposia Visual Communion: The Art, Architecture and Craft of the Eucharist

Government Art Collection was awarded £1,000 to support the creation of the podcast series A Meeting of Cultures

National Gallery, London was awarded £2,000 to support the conference Art for the Nation: John Ruskin, Art Education and Social Change

Victoria and Albert Museum was awarded £3,000 to support the conference Celebrating Reproductions: Past, Present and Future

Paul Mellon Centre Research Support Grants

Abigail Breeze Barrington was awarded £800 for research on ‘Her diving needle taught him how to swim': The Story of Hero and Leander in Visual and Material Culture, 1580–1630

Alistair Fair was awarded £1,000 for research on Peter Moro and Partners: Modernism and the Welfare State

Amber Roberts was awarded £1,900 for research on ‘Toward a Modern Landscape’: A Transatlantic Modernist Research Network, 1958–1964

Ben Cartwright was awarded £2,000 for research on In the Footsteps of James Baillie Fraser

Beth Williamson was awarded £1,000 for research on Recasting British Modernism: William Johnstone in Context

Caroline Dakers was awarded £900 for research on The Venetian world of Henry Woods RA, 1877–1921

Edit Toth was awarded £1,000 for research on Peter Péri: Everyday Life in Altered Dimensions

Elizabeth Dean Romariz was awarded £1,000 for research on Presentation Volumes: Rethinking the Architect and their Drawings

Emily Weeks was awarded £1,000 for research on Jean-Léon Gérôme in London, 1870–71

Gili Merin was awarded £1,400 for research on The Modern Pilgrim-Tourist to Jerusalem and the British Project of a Biblical City

Julie Halls was awarded £1,100 for research on Textiles Designed for Export to Africa: Cultures and Contexts

Karin Zitzewitz was awarded £1,000 for research on Feminist Networks and Formal Change: Towards an Entangled History of British and Indian Contemporary Art, 1991–2008

Kate Strasdin was awarded £700 for research on The 19th Century Dress Diary of Anne Sykes

Laura Guy was awarded £1,000 for research on Jill Posener's Photographs of Feminist Graffiti: Drawing a Line through the Long 1970s

Mei-Ying Sung was awarded £2,000 for research on The Chanley-Dodd Woodblocks at the Huntington Library

Michael Wright was awarded £200 for research on Pel – Britain’s Modernist Furniture Manufacturer

Nushelle de Silva was awarded £2,000 for research on Protocols for the Permanently Peripatetic: The Emergence of the Globally Circulating Exhibition, 1946–1980

Rebecca Lyons was awarded £2,000 for research on Sir Thomas Lawrence as Artist and Agent

Rebecca Pollack was awarded £1,000 for research on Contextualizing British Holocaust Memorials and Museums: Form, Content and Politics

Richard Hayes was awarded £1,000 for research on E. W. Godwin's Designs for Theatres: Fragments in the Archives

Robert Proctor was awarded £1,500 for research on Percy Thomas: Modern Architecture as National Service

Ryna Ordynat was awarded £1,000 for research on Elite British Women's Albums and the Creation of Feminine Visual Culture, 1750–1830

Seayoung Kim was awarded £1,000 for research on Contemporary Interpretation and Presentation of the Muybridge Collection: Implications for Audience Engagement

Shantel Blakely was awarded £700 for research on Herbert Read and Henry Moore on Sculpture, Architecture, and the Potential of Art

Simon Spier was awarded £600 for research on Creating the Bowes Museum: Private Collecting, Public Philanthropy and the Art Market in Britain, 1860–1920

Sophie Pickford was awarded £1,000 for research on Bloomsbury Art and the Ballet (1922–1932)

Themba Mtwazi was awarded £1,000 for research on Spaces of Cultural Resistance: The Contestation Between Tradition and Colonial Housing Typologies of Empire in Southern African Townships –Zimbabwe (1894–2005)

Victoria Horne was awarded £800 for research on Against Absence: The Feminist Revolution in Art History

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

Tara Contractor was awarded £2,000 for research on William Blake and The Golden Whirlwind: Reinterpreting Blake’s Gilding Practices

Wenqi Zhu was awarded £2,000 for research on The Objective Eye: Travel, Trade, and the British Empire in William Alexander's Topographical Prints and Drawings of Late Qing Dynasty

Spring 2019

At the March 2019 meeting of the Centre’s Advisory Council, the following Grants were awarded:

Senior Fellowships

Julian Stallabrass, Courtauld Institute of Art, was awarded £40,000 for the project Art in the Age of Populism: The Predicament of British Culture

Lynda Nead, Birkbeck, was awarded £40,000 for the project British Blonde: Glamour, Desire and Femininity in Post-War Britain, 1945–70

Sigrid de Jong, Leiden University, was awarded £40,000 for the project The Emergence of Architectural Experience in London and Paris, 1750–1815

Mid-Career Fellowships

Alexandra Kokoli, Middlesex University, was awarded £15,000 for the project The Virtual Feminist Museum of Greenham Common

Anne Hultzsch, University College London, was awarded £15,000 for the project Architecture and the Female Eye Witness: Maria Graham’s Writings on India and South America, 1808–1826

Catriona Murray, University of Edinburgh, was awarded £15,000 for the project Figuring Stuart Monarchy: Monumental Sculpture and the Royal Image, 1603–1819

Charlotte de Mille, Courtauld Institute of Art, was awarded £15,000 for the project Bergson in Britain

Felicity Myrone, British Library, was awarded £15,000 for the project Art in the Library

Jacqueline Riding was awarded £15,000 for the project Hogarth & the Jacobites

Sarah James, University College London, was awarded £15,000 for the project The Militant & The Mainstream: Remaking British Photographic Culture

Postdoctoral Fellowships

Alexandra Parsons, University College London, was awarded £10,000 for the project Luminous Presence: Derek Jarman’s Life-Writing

Alison Bennett, University College London, was awarded £10,000 for the project Material Cultures of British Imperialism in Eastern Africa, c.1860–1960: A History of Ethnographic Collecting and Display

Edward Webb-Ingall was awarded £10,000 for the project Video Activism Before the Internet, 1969–1993 (working title)

Ella S. Mills was awarded £10,000 for the project Black Women Artists: Voices of Resistance, Strategies of Creation

Eva Bentcheva, Haus der Kunst, was awarded £10,000 for the project Performing Cultural Politics: Histories of British South Asian Performance Art

Harry Willis Fleming was awarded £10,000 for the project Richard Cockle Lucas: The Artist in the Tower

Katherine Reinhart, University of Cambridge, was awarded £10,000 for the project Copying Natural Knowledge: William Faithorne, Wenceslaus Hollar and the early Royal Society

Louisa Lee, Fordham University, was awarded £10,000 for the project Class Teaching: Art School Magazines in Britain

Madeleine Pelling, University of York, was awarded £10,000 for the project The Portland Museum: Bluestocking Collecting, Craft and Conversation, c.1770–1786

Nicolas Helm-Grovas, Royal Holloway, was awarded £10,000 for the project Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen: Metalanguage and Counter-cinema

Richard Brook, Manchester School of Architecture, was awarded £10,000 for the project The Renewal of Post-War Manchester: Architecture, Planning and the State

Sara Honarmand Ebrahimi, University of Edinburgh, was awarded £10,000 for the project A ‘Chain’ of Affective Architecture: The Case of the Church Missionary Society (CMS) Hospitals in a Muslim World

Sophie Kelly, University of Kent, was awarded £10,000 for the project Imagining the Unimaginable: The Trinity in Medieval English Art

Thomas Hughes, Courtauld Institute of Art, was awarded £10,000 for the project Curious Beauty: John Ruskin, Walter Pater, Aestheticism

Yichi Zhang, University of Technology Sydney, was awarded £10,000 for the project The Parlor of the Metropolis: Public Parks and Open Space in the British Concessions of China, 1842–1937

Junior Fellowships

Adrienne Rooney, Rice University, was awarded £7,500 to conduct research in the United Kingdom for the project Art History and the Underside of Landscape: Discourses of ‘the Folk’ and ‘Fine Art’ in the 20th Century Circum-Caribbean

Avigail Moss, University of Southern California, was awarded £7,500 to conduct research in the United Kingdom for the project Actuarial Imaginaries of Art and Empire, 1800–1914

Elis Gabriela Mendoza, Princeton University, was awarded £7,500 to conduct research in the United Kingdom for the project From Refuge to Shelter: Frederick Cuny's Humanitarian Architecture as Deferred Utopia

Hannah Kahng, University of California, was awarded £7,500 to conduct research in the United Kingdom for the project This Film Which Is Not One: Intersections of Expanded Cinema and Feminism, 1970–1979

Judith Stapleton, Yale University, was awarded £7,500 to conduct research in the United Kingdom for the project William Orpen: Modernist

Nushelle de Silva, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was awarded £7,500 to conduct research in the United Kingdom for the project Protocols for the Permanently Peripatetic: The Emergence of the Globally Circulating Exhibition, 1946–1980

Shirlynn Sham, Yale University, was awarded £7,500 to conduct research in the United Kingdom for the project Visual Modernity and the Industrial Subterranean, 1826–1941

Tara Contractor, Yale University, was awarded £7,500 to conduct research in the United Kingdom for the project British Gilt: Gold in Painting, 1790–1914

Terra–PMC Fellowship

Amy Tobin, University of Cambridge, was awarded £9,500 to conduct research for the project Sisterhood: Art and Feminism in Britain and the United States, 1968–1980

Educational Programme Grants

New Contemporaries was awarded £3,000 to support the New Contemporaries – 70 Years Young symposium

Impressions Gallery of Photography was awarded £2,900 to support the Feed Your Mind lecture series

Kingston University was awarded £2,100 to support the Frascari Symposium IV: The Secret Lives of Architectural Drawings and Models: From Translating to Archiving, Collecting and Display

British School at Rome was awarded £3,000 to support the Cardinal Alessandro Albani and the British: Art and Cultural Diplomacy in Rome of the Grand Tour symposium

Leo Baeck Institute London was awarded £2,900 to support the Surrealism in Britain, 1925–155 conference

The Modernist Society was awarded £3,000 to support the Modernist Society 10th Anniversary Lecture Day

Tate Britain was awarded £700 to support Inner Rhythms: Britain and the Bauhaus (working title) symposium

Association for Art History was awarded £1,000 to support the Photography & Printed Matter Summer Symposium

Paul Mellon Centre Research Support Grants

Aimee Caya was awarded £1,800 for the project Documenting Medieval Monumental Brasses in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire

Anna Arabindan-Kesson was awarded £2,000 for the project The Viral and The Virus: Infectious Intimacies of Skin and Empire

Caitlin Beach was awarded £1,600 for the project The Abolitionist Image in Nineteenth-Century Sierra Leone

Christopher Williams-Wynn was awarded £2,000 for the project Conceptual Art and Information Systems: Stephen Willats's Art and Social Practice, 1968–1980

Claudia Hucke was awarded £2,000 for the project The ‘Englishness’ of Windrush Generation Artists

Emily Smith was awarded £2,000 for the project Parkinson, Spöring, Tupaia, and the Aesthetics of Cross-Cultural Encounter on the Endeavour Voyage, 1768–1771

Emma Merkling was awarded £1,900 for the project Evelyn De Morgan in Florence, 1895–1914

Gustavo Grandal Montero was awarded £2,000 for the project Concrete Poetry, Henri Chopin and Developments in Sound and Performance Art in Britain during the 1960s

Isabelle Mooney was awarded £2,000 for the project Ruin to Reconstruction: PostWar British Art in the Transnational Field

Jennifer Dudley was awarded £300 for the project Exploring Castlemilk Womanhouse

Jennifer Sarathy was awarded £2,000 for the project Black British Art's Expanded Cartographies

Ludovic Jouvet was awarded £1,900 for the project British Medals in Books: The Portraits as Image of a Nation

Mira Waits was awarded £900 for the project Patterning the Prison: Convict Carpets in Colonial India

Myles Campbell was awarded £2,000 for the project Vicereines of Ireland: The Women behind the Throne

Nicole Blackwood was awarded £2,000 for the project Cornelis Ketel in England between 1573–1581

Paula Murphy was awarded £1,100 for the project John Henry Foley's Work for the Confederate States of America in the 1860s

Richard Hudson-Miles was awarded £1,800 for the project The Art of Hornsey ’68

Rixt Woudstra was awarded £2,000 for the project Planning 'Multi-Racial' Cities: Leonard Thornton-White's Designs for British East Africa

Shijia Yu was awarded £1,300 for the project Amusing, Interesting and Curious: A Study of English Paper Peepshows, 1825–1851

Steve Edwards was awarded £1,800 for the project British Daguerreotypes –Antoine Claudet

Suchitra Choudhury was awarded £500 for the project Faking it?: British Art's Love Affair with Indian Shawls

Sylvia Houghteling was awarded £2,000 for the project The Entangled Textile Histories of Britain and South Asia, 1688–1886

Ying Lu (Lucy) Wang was awarded £800 for the dissertation chapter From Garrisoned District to Chinese Town: An Architectural History of the Kowloon Walled City, 1898–1912 (working title)

Zalina Tetermazova was awarded £2,000 for the project Crossing the Bourders of Empires: Printmaking Practice of Gavriil Skorodumov and James Walker in the Context of British–Russian Cultural Relations

George Frederick Watts, Hope (detail), 1891, oil on panel. Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Claire and Albert J Zuckerman, Yale School of Drama MFA 1961, DFA 1962