Fellowships and Grants

July 2020–June 2021

Autumn 2020

At the October 2020 meeting of the Advisory Council, the following grants and fellowships were awarded:

Conservation Fellowship

Gainsborough’s House was awarded £25,000 towards the conservation and research of the Cedric Morris collection and three Gainsborough portraits

Curatorial Research Grants

Art UK was awarded £30,000 to help support a research curator to work on the project ‘Art UK Sculpture: Completing the Recording of Public Sculpture’

Glynn Vivian Art Gallery was awarded £20,000 to help support a research curator to work on the project ‘Imperial Subjects (Post) Colonial Conversations between Britain and South Asia’

Kingston Museum was awarded £40,000 to help support a research curator to work on the project ‘Making Muybridge Visible: An Online Catalogue’

National Museums Liverpool was awarded £40,000 to help support a research curator to work on the project ‘666: Black Girl Magic’

Touchstones Rochdale was awarded £32,000 to help support a research curator to work on the project ‘Rochdale Art Gallery in the 1980s: The Legacy of Jill Morgan’

Digital Project Grants

Afterall was awarded £40,000 towards the digital mapping of the legacies of the slave trade in contemporary art through its ‘Black Atlantic Museum’ project New Architecture Movement was awarded £10,000 towards preserving, collating and providing digital access to its archives through its ‘Digital Archive’ project

Pallant House Gallery was awarded £30,000 towards creating a searchable database and online exhibition of its collection of British Pop art through its ‘Unlocking British Pop Art’ project

Event Support Grants

Leamington Spa Art Gallery was awarded £1,500 towards the online lecture series ‘In Sickness and in Health: Art and Medicine in Britain’

Ruskin School of Art was awarded £1,500 towards the online conference ‘Biotic Resistance: Eco-Caribbean Visions in Art and Exhibition Practice’

Publication Grants

Afterall was awarded £7,000 towards publishing Helen Chadwick: The Oval Court

Nicola Baird, Sarah MacDougall and Ben Uri Gallery and Museum were awarded £7,700 towards publishing Becoming Gustav Metzger: The Early Years, 1945–1959

BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art was awarded £7,000 towards publishing Sutapa Biswas

Dordrechts Museum was awarded £5,000 towards publishing In the Light of Cuyp: Aelbert Cuyp & Gainsborough – Constable – Turner

Duke University Press was awarded £8,500 towards publishing Detour to the Imaginary: Stuart Hall’s Writings on the Visual Arts and Culture

Sara Honarmand Ebrahimi was awarded £300 towards publishing Emotion, Mission, Architecture: Building Hospitals in Persia and NorthWestern British India, 1865–1914

Jasmine Hunter Evans was awarded £550 towards publishing David Jones and Rome: Reimagining the Decline of Western Civilisation

William Fowler and Strange Attractor Press were awarded £8,500 towards publishing Towers Open Fire: The Queer Film Worlds of Antony Balch

Charlotte Gould and Sophie Mesplède were awarded £1,750 towards publishing British Art and the Environment: Changes, Challenges and Responses Since the Industrial Revolution

LUX was awarded £6,000 towards publishing Annabel Nicolson: Fire Works

Ian Massey and Ridinghouse were awarded £8,500 towards publishing Queer St Ives and Other Stories

Ella S. Mills was awarded £2,200 towards publishing Black Women Artists: Voices of Resistance, Strategies of Creation

MK Gallery was awarded £8,500 towards publishing Ingrid Pollard – Carbon Slow Turning (working title)

Joseph Monteyne was awarded £1,700 towards publishing Media Critique in the Age of Gillray: Scratches, Scraps, and Spectres

Norfolk Museums Service was awarded £3,650 towards publishing A Passion for Landscape: Rediscovering John Crome

Sophie Read and MIT Press were awarded £8,500 towards publishing Soane the Lecturer

Emma Roodhouse and Colchester & Ipswich Museums Service were awarded £8,500 towards publishing John Constable: Made in Suffolk (working title)

Amy Thomas and MIT Press were awarded £8,500 towards publishing Rebuilding the City of London: Architecture, Planning, and Finance, 1945–93

Simona Valeriani was awarded £3,000 towards publishing The Royal Albert Hall: Building the Arts and Sciences

Zhengfeng Wang was awarded £150 towards publishing Central Market in Hong Kong: Urban Amenities in a Speculative Field

Verity Wilson and Reaktion Books were awarded £8,500 towards publishing Dressing Up: The Culture of Fancy Dress in Britain, 1837–1953

Ada de Wit was awarded £3,000 towards publishing Grinling Gibbons and the Golden Age of Woodcarving: The Netherlands and Britain, 1650–1700

Research Support Grants

Rhian Addison was awarded £2,000 for research on ‘Transient and Established: The London Studios of Landscape Artists George Morland and John Constable’

Laia Anguix Vilches was awarded £2,000 for research on ‘Rediscovering John Martin: An Apocalyptic Taste in PostWar Britain’

Lucy Bailey was awarded £350 for research on ‘Walter Fawkes’ (1769–1825) Collection of Modern Watercolours by British Artists’

Susie Beckham was awarded £2,000 for research on ‘Names, Origins and Receptions: An analysis of the unpublished memoir of “The P.R.B. & Walter Howell Deverell” and further select Pre-Raphaelite source material in the Huntington Library’

Eva Bentcheva was awarded £1,000 for research on ‘Itinerant Abstractions: The Work of Prafulla Mohanti’

Louise Box was awarded £2,000 for research on ‘Documenting Judy Egerton (1928– 2012): an Australian-born British Art Historian and Her World’

Emily Burns was awarded £2,000 for research on ‘Painters and Picturemakers: The Painter-Stainers’ Company during the Civil Wars and Interregnum, c. 1640–1660’

Ludovico Centis was awarded £1,500 for research on ‘Reyner Banham’s Tracks in the Age of Brexit’

Peter Christensen was awarded £2,000 for research on ‘The Architectural Patent: Inventing Modernity’

Anais Da Fonseca was awarded £1,000 for research on ‘Itinerant Abstractions: The Work of Prafulla Mohanti’

Elizabeth Deans was awarded £2,000 for research on ‘Nicholas Hawksmoor, His Sketchbook, and His Architectural Formation’

Brian Dillon was awarded £1,500 for research on ‘Sometimes a Mere Foundation’

Nora Epstein was awarded £1,400 for research on ‘Visual Commonplacing: The Transmission and Reception of Printed Religious Images in Reformed England and Scotland’

Lucia Farinati was awarded £2,000 for research on ‘Audio Arts – A Polyvocal History of the British Sound Magazine’

Alicia Foster was awarded £600 for research on Nina Hamnett (for Eiderdown Books)

Clarisse Godard Desmarest was awarded £2,000 for research on ‘William Burn’s Pioneer Scots Baronial houses’

Andrew Hodgson was awarded £2,000 for research on ‘Xeroxing Surrealism: TRANSFORMAcTION and Collage as Aesthetic Continuity’

Eleanor Jones was awarded £450 for research on ‘Intimate Portraits, Surreal Experiments: Lee Miller and Barbara Ker-Seymer’

Eve Kalyva was awarded £2,000 for supplementary archival research for the manuscript ‘A Guide to Early Conceptual Art Exhibitions in Britain, 1969–1979’

Silvano Levy was awarded £1,650 for research on ‘Mary Wykeham: Surrealist out of the Shadows’

Samuel Love was awarded £600 for research on ‘Glamour, English Art, and the Re-Enchantment of High Society, 1918–39’

Eva Charlotta Mebius was awarded £2,000 for research on ‘The Reception of British Art at the Stockholm Exhibition, 1897’

Siddharth Pandey was awarded £2,000 for research on ‘A “Little England” in the Indian Himalayas: Perceiving Shimla, the Summer Capital of Imperial India’

Rianna Jade Parker was awarded £2,000 for research on ‘Master Painters of the British Caribbean: The Early Intuitives in Jamaica’

Robert Wilkes was awarded £2,000 for research on ‘British Artists in Nineteenth-Century Brazil: Representations of the Brazilian Landscape’

Christopher Williams-Wynn was awarded £2,000 for research on ‘Problems of Social Function: Art, Interaction and the Cybernetic Techniques of Stephen Willats in the 1970s’

Andrew Wyld Research Support Grants

Caroline Douglas was awarded £2,000 for research on ‘Retouching the Archive: Encountering the Paper Calotype’

Claire Spadafora was awarded £2,000 for research on ‘The Early Work of a “Raphael secundus”: William Kent in Italy and England, 1709–1724’

Spring 2021

At the March 2021 meeting of the Advisory Council, the following grants and fellowships were awarded:

Senior Fellowships

Steve Edwards (Birkbeck) was awarded £40,000 for the project ‘Daguerreotypes: Patents, Persons & Portraits’

Tanya Harrod was awarded £40,000 for the project ‘Extreme Culture: The Artistic and Political Lives of Margaret and Rolf Gardiner’

Kate Retford (Birkbeck) was awarded £40,000 for the project ‘Cutting and Pasting: Making Print Rooms in Britain and Ireland, 1750–1840’ (Note: this award was declined)

Kathryn Ann Smith (New York University) was awarded £40,000 for the project ‘Scripture Transformed in Late Medieval England: The Religious, Artistic and Social Worlds of the Welles-Ros Bible’

Mid-Career Fellowships

John Munns (University of Cambridge) was awarded £15,000 for the project ‘The Art of Norman England’

Robert Proctor (University of Bath) was awarded £15,000 for the project ‘Percy Thomas: Modern Architecture as National Service’

Lucy Reynolds (University of Westminster) was awarded £15,000 for the project ‘When Film Threads through a Sewing Machine: Film, Video and Feminism in London from Reel Time (1973) to Johnny Panic (1999)’

Hope Wolf (University of Sussex) was awarded £15,000 for the project ‘Sussex Modernism’

Postdoctoral Fellowships

Meg Bernstein (Yale Institute of Sacred Music) was awarded £10,000 for the project ‘A Living Church: Building the English Medieval Parish, 1150–1300’

Tom Bromwell (University of York) was awarded £10,000 for the project ‘Visions of an Ending: Eschatology, Apocalypse, and Millennium in Interwar British Art and Visual Culture’

Alistair Cartwright (Birkbeck) was awarded £10,000 for the project ‘The Architecture of the Rented World: Unmaking and Remaking the Terraced House in Postwar London, 1945–65’

Edwin Coomasaru was awarded £10,000 for the project ‘Masculinity and Apocalypticism in British Art, 1967–2020’

Lotte Crawford was awarded £10,000 for the project ‘The Modern Craftsman’s Fingers, From the Handloom to Innovations in Indigo: Two Studies on Anglo-Indian Textile Relations of the 1910s’

Emily Doucet (University of Toronto) was awarded £10,000 for the project ‘Compressing Correspondence: The Airgraph and Photography’s Colonial Networks’ (Note: this award was declined)

Nicolas Helm-Grovas (King’s College London) was awarded £10,000 for the project ‘Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen: Metalanguage and Counter-cinema’

Richard Hudson-Miles was awarded £10,000 for the project ‘1968: British Art and Culture in a Year of Revolutions’

Laurel Peterson was awarded £10,000 for the project ‘Making Spaces: Art in the Whig Country House, 1688–1745’

Ben Pollitt was awarded £10,000 for the project ‘In Sympathy’s Wake: Dissonance and Attachment in John Webber’s Atlas’

Alexandra Quantrill (Columbia University) was awarded £10,000 for the project ‘Electric Women: The TechnoFeminist Modernism of the Electrical Association for Women’

Jennifer Shurville was awarded £10,000 for the project ‘Drawing the Invisible: Diagrams and the Generation of Knowledge in Medieval England, c.1200–1400’

Junior Fellowships

Tobah Aukland-Peck (The Graduate Center, CUNY) was awarded £7,500 to conduct research in the United Kingdom for the project ‘Mineral Landscapes: The Mine and British Modernism’

Meghaa Ballakrishnen (Johns Hopkins University) was awarded £7,500 to conduct research in the United Kingdom for the project ‘Abstraction by Analogy: Nasreen Mohamedi, Geeta Kapur, and the Subject after Feminism, 1950–1990’

Zoë Dostal (Columbia University) was awarded £7,500 to conduct research in the United Kingdom for the project ‘Rope, Linen, Thread: Gender, Labor, and the Textile Industry in EighteenthCentury British Art’

Hannah Kaemmer (Harvard University) was awarded £7,500 to conduct research in the United Kingdom for the project ‘Expertise and Empire: Fortification Building and the Board of Ordnance during the English Restoration’

Mirna Mederal (University of Zagreb) was awarded £7,500 to conduct research in the United Kingdom for the project ‘The Collector: Research into Provenance of Artworks from the A. T. Mimara Collection’

Sarah Weston (Yale University) was awarded £7,500 to conduct research in the United Kingdom for the project ‘Wild Form: Shape, Number, and the Romantic Reinvention of Space’

PMC Research Collections Fellowship

Hans Hönes was awarded £10,000 for research on the project ‘Fundaments of Knowledge: Art History in Britain, c.1940–70’

Rome Fellowship

Tommaso Zerbi was awarded £20,000 to spend time at the British School at Rome to research the project ‘Gothic Revival Atop the Heirlooms of Antiquity: Villa Mills and the Palatine Hill, c.1818–1926’

Event Support Grants

Association for Art History was awarded £1,500 to support the online event ‘Global Britain: Decolonising Art’s Histories’

Ben Uri Gallery and Museum was awarded £1,500 to support the online event

‘Becoming Gustav Metzger’

Furniture History Society was awarded £1,500 to support the society’s online lecture programme

International Curators Forum was awarded £1,500 to support the online event ‘Liberation Begins in the Imagination’

National Museums Liverpool was awarded £1,500 to support the online event ‘Curating Queerly: Documenting British LGBT+ Art Exhibitions’

Royal College of Art was awarded £1,500 to support the online event ‘PhD Programme, School of Architecture, Royal College of Art’

Royal College of Art was awarded £2,000 to support the symposium ‘Watchwords: John Furnival and Text (as) Art’

University of York and Tate Britain were awarded £1,500 to support the online event ‘The Spatial 18th Century: Rethinking Urban Networks and Maps’

Research Support Grants

Siobhan Angus was awarded £2,000 for research on ‘Camera Geologica: Materiality, Resource Extraction, and Photography’

Abigail Breeze Barrington was awarded £2,000 for research on ‘Patrons and Muses: Women in the Arts, 1580–1630’

Deepthi Bathala was awarded £2,000 for research on ‘Transporting Landscapes: Objects and Spaces of Global Food Transfers’

Eloise Bennett was awarded £1,300 for research on ‘Material Threads, Ink Lines – Women’s Concrete Poetry in Britain, 1960–80’

Sonali Dhanpal was awarded £1,850 for research on ‘Mapping the Architecture of Bangalore City’

Inga Fraser was awarded £1,920 for research for the exhibition ‘Bloomsbury and Cinema’

Marta Herrero was awarded £1,770 for research on ‘Women Artists and Female Philanthropy: Artists’ Benevolent Fund, 1810–1900’

Jenny Lund was awarded £1,970 for research on ‘Helen Chadwick’s Early Super-8 Film Domestic Sanitation (1976)’

Julie Park was awarded £2,000 for research on ‘18th-Century ExtraIllustrated Books and the Art of Writing’

Andrey Shabanov was awarded £2,000 for research on ‘The Impact of Britain’s Pioneering Museum of Art and Design on Europe and Russia’

Gemma Shearwood was awarded £2,000 for research on ‘Commemorating Imperialism in Westminster Abbey, 1661–1832’

Zachary Stewart was awarded £1,500 for research on ‘Collaborative Gothic: Perpendicular Architecture, Identity, and Community in the English Parish Church, 1350–1550’

Frederika Tevebring was awarded £2,000 for research on ‘Matriarchal Past and Modernist Futures at the 1951 Festival of Britain’

Dustin Valen was awarded £2,000 for research on ‘Climate, Bathing, and Architecture in NineteenthCentury Britain’

Ellice Wu was awarded £2,000 for research on ‘The Performative Muse: Angelica Kauffman’s London SelfPortraits, 1766–1781’

Allison Young was awarded £2,000 for research on ‘Solidarity: Gavin Jantjes, Anti-Apartheid, and the Postwar Avant-Garde’

Summer 2021

At the June 2021 extraordinary meeting of the Advisory Council, the following grants and fellowships were awarded:

Research Continuity Grants

International Curators Forum was awarded £10,000 to support the project ‘An Anthology of British-Caribbean Art, Part Two’

Royal Pavilion and Museums Trust was awarded £10,000 to support the project ‘Chinese Export Wallpaper at the Royal Pavilion and Museums Trust’

Towner Art Gallery was awarded £10,000 to support the project ‘A Life in Art: Lucy Wertheim, Patron, Collector and Gallerist and Reuniting the Twenties Group: From Barbara Hepworth to Victor Pasmore’

Research Continuity Fellowships

Sara Ayres was awarded £5,000 to support research on ‘Prince George of Denmark’s Grand Tour: Art, Collections and Cross-Cultural Encounters in Restoration England’

Alison Bennett was awarded £5,000 to support research on ‘Material, Visual, and Architectural Cultures of Christianity in Colonial Uganda’

Richard Birkett was awarded £5,000 to support research on ‘Donald Rodney’s “Autoicon”: Human as Hybrid-Auto-Instituting-LanguagingStorytelling Species’

Madeline Boden was awarded £5,000 to support research on ‘The First Covenant: Victorian Art and the Old Testament, c.1850–1897’

Tiffany Charlotte Boyle was awarded £5,000 to support research on ‘BlackScottish-Artist-Filmmaker: Revisiting Maud Sulter’s “Gallus Pictures”’

Robyne Calvert was awarded £5,000 to support research on ‘The Mack: Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Glasgow School of Art’

Laura Castagini was awarded £5,000 to support research on ‘Stolen Glances: Lesbians Take Photographs – An Exhibition History’

Nicole Cochrane was awarded £5,000 to support research on ‘Buying Bonaparte: Material Cultures of Napoleon in the British Imagination in the Long Nineteenth Century’

Jackson Davidow was awarded £5,000 to support research on ‘Surviving the Blitz: Photography and Health Activism in 1980s London’

Cathryn Enis was awarded £5,000 to support research on ‘Tibor Reich and the S400 Textile Collection’

Daniel Fountain was awarded £5,000 to support research on ‘Crafted with Pride: Queer Craft and Contemporary Activism in Britain’

Ashley Gallant was awarded £5,000 to support research on ‘Radical Art Practice: Copyright and the Future of Public Collections’

Elisabeth Gernerd was awarded £5,000 to support research on ‘Lady in Silver: Navigating a Political Life in Silk and Paint’

Melissa Gustin was awarded £5,000 to support research on ‘Unquiet Grandeur: Nineteenth-Century Sculpture and the Imitation of Antiquity’

Francesca Kaes was awarded £5,000 to support research on ‘The Art of the Blot: Alexander Cozens’s “New Method” as Intermedial Practice’

Nilina Lal was awarded £5,000 to support research on ‘Constructing Calcutta: Empire and the Making of the Capital of British India, 1880–1911’

Hannah Lee was awarded £5,000 to support research on ‘“Your Most Obedient and Faithful Servant”: Peregrine Tyam and the Representation of Black Sitters in Early Modern British Portraiture’

Hanna Mazheika was awarded £5,000 to support research on ‘Stuart Portraiture and Art Collecting in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania’

Caroline McGee was awarded £5,000 to support research on ‘Crafting Catholic Opulence: Oppenheimer of Manchester and Decorative Church Mosaics, 1874–1965’

Emma Merkling was awarded £5,000 to support research on ‘Imponderable: Physics, Mathematics, Psychical Research, and Evelyn De Morgan’s Spiritualist Art, 1885–1914’

Lisa Newby was awarded £5,000 to support research on ‘Vital Disorder: Collage and Cultural Identity in London’s Postwar Artworld’

Gabriella Nugent was awarded £5,000 to support research on ‘African Modernists at the Slade School of Fine Art, c.1945–1965’

Anna Reid was awarded £5,000 to support research on ‘The Day is Bright and Open: Lucy Skaer’s Green Man’

Alice Sage was awarded £5,000 to support research on ‘Visual Vocabularies of Dreaming in First World War Postcards’

Christine Slobogin was awarded £5,000 to support research on ‘Dickie Orpen and the Visual Culture of Second World War Plastic Surgery in Britain’

Sylvia Theuri was awarded £5,000 to support research on ‘Moments and Connections: Re-viewing the 1983 PanAfrikan Exhibition at the Herbert Art Gallery & Museum’

Rebecca Tropp was awarded £5,000 to support research on ‘Accommodating the Picturesque: Colonial Influences on Issues of Permeability’

Beth Williamson was awarded £5,000 to support research on ‘Art and Education: The Modernist Networks of William Johnstone’

Rixt Woudstra was awarded £5,000 to support research on ‘Designing a “New Britain”: Colonial Architecture, Protest, and the End of Empire’

Wen Yao was awarded £5,000 to support research on ‘Stella Snead as a Surrealist World Traveller: Mobility and Representation in her Paintings, Photographs, Collages and Writings’

Shijia Yu was awarded £5,000 to support research on ‘Paper Peepshows and the Intermediality of Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture’