Fellowships and Grants

July 2021–June 2022

Autumn 2021

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

Collaborative Project Grants

National Galleries of Scotland and University of Edinburgh were awarded £32,000 towards collaborative research for the John Michael Wright and the Art of Invention project

Portsmouth City Council and Silver Society, Royal Navy, were awarded £15,450 towards collaborative research for the Portsmouth’s Civic Silver Collection project

University of Salford and Royal Institute of British Architects, Liverpool, were awarded £32,000 towards collaborative research for The Modern Backdrop: The Impact of Architectural Modernity on Memory, Identity and Lives in Salford, 1960–1973 project

Curatorial Research Grants

Birmingham Museums Trust was awarded £30,000 to help support a research curator to work on the project Victorian Art, Design and Empire

Fitzwilliam Museum was awarded £20,000 to help support a research curator to work on the project Enslavement and Empire, c.1670–1870

Royal Museums Greenwich was awarded £30,000 to help support a research curator to work on the project Van de Velde 350: The Dawn of British Marine Painting

The Hepworth Wakefield was awarded £20,000 to help support a research curator to work on the project

A Collection for Wakefield: Cataloguing, Research and Presentation of Two Major Bequests to the Wakefield Permanent Art Collections

The Stephen Lawrence Gallery was awarded £10,000 to help support a research curator to work on the project Frank Bowling and Sculpture

Turner’s House Trust was awarded £27,000 to help support a research curator to work on the project

J. M. W. Turner’s Sandycombe Years Exhibition Series

Digital Project Grants

The Courtauld Institute of Art was awarded £39,500 towards creating a publicly accessible, free-to-use online database of digitised material from the Institute’s archive of British wall paintings through The National Wall Paintings Survey: Phase 1 project

University of East Anglia was awarded £40,000 towards creating an interactive, open-access resource built around a collection of ‘fictile ivories’ through The UEA Fictile Ivories: Casts, Networks, Replicas project

Event Support Grant

Fieldnotes was awarded £1,000 towards the ARCHI-POETICS: Urban Architecture writing workshops

Northumbria University was awarded £2,600 towards the Art Publishing, Periodicals and Printed Things conference

The William Morris Society was awarded £1,000 towards The Kelmscott Press and its Legacies symposium

University of Dundee was awarded £500 towards the Art History and Violence against Women conference

Publication Grant

Caitlin Beach was awarded £1,500 towards publishing Sculpture at the Ends of Slavery

Eva Bentcheva was awarded £3,000 towards publishing The Dancing Hands: The Life and Works of Prafulla Mohanti

Jacqueline Bishop and Intellect Books were awarded £8,000 towards publishing Patchwork: Essays & Interviews on Contemporary Caribbean Visual Culture

Gary Boyd and Lund Humphries were awarded £7,000 towards publishing Architecture and the Face of Coal: Mining and Modern Britain

Charlotte de Mille and Edinburgh University Press were awarded £4,910 towards publishing Bergson in Britain: Modern Art and Philosophy

Helen Draper and Lund Humphries were awarded £8,000 towards publishing Mary Beale

Alicia Foster and Pallant House Gallery were awarded £8,000 towards publishing Gwen John: Art and Life in Two Cities

Charlotte Gauthier and Paul Holberton Publishing were awarded £10,000 towards publishing 900 Years of St Bartholomew the Great Conor Lucey was awarded £1,040 towards publishing House and Home in Georgian Ireland: Spaces and Cultures of Domestic Life

Michael McMillan was awarded £3,000 towards publishing The Front Room: Migrant Aesthetics in the Home (revised edition)

Iris Moon was awarded £10,000 towards publishing Melancholy Wedgwood

Zachary Stewart and Harvey Miller were awarded £3,000 towards publishing Tribute to T. A. Heslop: From Miniature to Monumental: Studies in the Material Culture of Medieval Britain

Callan Waldron-Hall and Bluecoat were awarded £9,710 towards publishing Bluecoat Off-Centre: Out of the Archive

Research Support Grants

Sara Ayres was awarded £700 for research on Investigating and Publishing a Manuscript Account of Prince Otto von Hessen-Kassel’s Princely Tour in England and Scotland in 1611

Sarah Churchill was awarded £1,750 for research on Photography, ‘The New Brutalism’, and the Invention of Postwar Social Housing

Thomas Cooper was awarded £930 for research on May Morris in Oxfordshire

Emily Cox was awarded £1,750 for research on The ‘Tendril’ and the ‘Root’: Rethinking the Fin-de-Siècle’s Artistic Landscape

Lauren Craig was awarded £1,750 for research on Itinerant Abstractions: The Work of Prafulla Mohanti Rendering Experience: A Curatorial Exploration of ‘Passion: Discourses on Blackwomen’s Creativity’ (1990)

Taous Rose Dahmani was awarded £1,750 for research on ‘Direct Action Photography’: A Typography of the Photographic Representation of Struggles and the Struggle for Photographic Representations (London, 1968–1989)

Catherine Doucette was awarded £1,750 for research on The Decorative Arts of Colonial Jamaica

Ruth Ezra was awarded £1,750 for research on Leaves of Glass: Mica between Art and Science in Early Modern England

Katherine Fein was awarded £1,750 for research on Tusk and Skin: The Intimate Ecologies of Ivory Miniatures

Luke Fiederer was awarded £1,750 for research on To Waterloo on the Windrush: How Lambeth’s Caribbean Community Redefined Architectural Britishness

Eliza Goodpasture was awarded £1,800 for research on Kindred Spirits: Friendship and Ambition Among Women Artists, 1870–1920

Rachel Hutcheson was awarded £1,750 for research on Color Photography, 1890–1920: Technology, Gender, Colonialism

Arjuna Keshvani-Ham was awarded £400 for research on Harry Fainlight: The Beatniks and the British Art Scene, 1957–1967

Alexandra Macdonald was awarded £1,750 for research on The Social Life of Time i n the Anglo-Atlantic World, 1660–1830

Fionn Montell-Boyd was awarded £290 for research on Speculative Projections: The Political Economy of Silver and the Emergence of Photography in Britain, 1780–1841

Kimberly Morse Jones was awarded £1,750 for research on An Anthology of British Press Art Criticism from the Long Nineteenth Century

Stephen Parnell was awarded £1,750 for research on The Makings of Critical Regionalism: Ken Frampton at ‘Architectural Design’

Triveni Srikaran was awarded £1,750 for research on Women Art Workers of the Arts and Crafts Movement in Britain, c.1880–1925

Francesca Strobino was awarded £1,750 for research on Mapping the Private and Scientific Network of W. H. F. Talbot’s Photomechanical Experiments

Elliott Sturtevant was awarded £1,750 for research on ‘London’s Most Modern Office Building’: Bush House, International Trade, and the Supremacy of English-Speaking Peoples in the Aftermath of WWI

Andrew Wyld Research Support Grants

Michael Feinberg was awarded £2,000 for research on Caribbean Landscapes and Agencies beyond the Human in British Print Culture surrounding the Haitian Revolution

Hannah Lyons was awarded £2,000 for research on Caroline Watson (1760/1–1814), Frances, Marchioness of Bute (1773–1832) and the Bute Collection of Prints

Spring 2022

At the March 2022 meeting of the Advisory Council, the following grants and fellowships were awarded:

Senior Fellowships

Alexander Marr (University of Cambridge) was awarded £60,000 for the project Holbein’s Wit: Pictorial Ingenuity in Renaissance Art

Heather Pulliam (University of Edinburgh) was awarded £60,000 for the project Living Frame: Art, Body and Environment in Britain and Ireland, c.700–1000

Matthew Reeve (Queen’s University) was awarded £60,000 for the project The Casa Manetti in Florence: Homoerotic Networks, the Grand Tour, and the Origins of Queer Aesthetics in Britain c.1735–1785

Mid-Career Fellowships

Justin Carville (Institute of Art, Design & Technology, Dun Laoghaire) was awarded £15,000 for the project The Ungovernable Eye: Photographies of Race and Ethnography in Ireland

Alice Correia was awarded £15,000 for the project British South Asian Women Artists since the 1980s

John Curley (Wake Forest University) was awarded £15,000 for the project Critical Distance: Black American Artists in Europe, 1958–1968

Stephen Parnell (Newcastle University) was awarded £15,000 for the project Catalogs, Clubs and Cosmorama

Otto Saumarez Smith (University of Warwick) was awarded £15,000 for the project Landscapes of Hope and Crisis: A History of Modern Urban Britain

Tania Sengupta (The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London) was awarded £15,000 for the project Colonial Margins: Spatial Cultures of Provincial Governance in NineteenthCentury Eastern India

Laura Slater (University of Cambridge) was awarded £15,000 for the project Philippa of Hainault: Queenship, Music and Manuscripts

Catherine Spencer (University of St Andrews) was awarded £15,000 for the project Abstract Subjects: Art in Britain Between the Border and the Trace

Postdoctoral Fellowships

Anne Caldwell was awarded £10,000 for the project Alien Tourists/National Painters: Jewishness, Zionism, and Palestine in the Art of the Whitechapel Boys and Bezalel Artists

Matthew Holman was awarded £10,000 for the project Communing with Communities: The Whitechapel Gallery’s Radical Education Programmes, 1979–1989

Alicia Hughes was awarded £10,000 for the project The Paper Museum in the Long Eighteenth Century

Anna Jamieson was awarded £10,000 for the project The Gaze of the Sane: Asylum Tourism in England, 1770–1845

Juliet Learmouth was awarded £10,000 for the project Elite Women and the London Town House, 1700 to 1760

Sophie Lynford was awarded £10,000 for the project Landscapes of Liberation: Michel Jean Cazabon and Post-Emancipation Trinidad (*This award was declined)

Rebecca Senior was awarded £10,000 for the project Allegories of Violence: Monuments, Empire and Visual Culture in Britain, 1760–1840

Marte Stinis was awarded £10,000 for the project Music and Painting in Victorian Aestheticism

Lindsay Wells was awarded £10,000 for the project Evergreen Empire: The Horticultural Politics of British Painting, 1848–1910

Courtney Wilder was awarded £10,000 for the project Printed Dress Textiles and the Visual Economy in Europe, 1815–1851

Junior Fellowships

Christopher Barrett-Lennard (Princeton University) was awarded £7,500 to conduct research in the United Kingdom for the project The Artist as Somatic Technician: Len Lye’s Cinema, 1926–44

Dominic Bate (Brown University) was awarded £7,500 to conduct research in the United Kingdom for the project Pythagorean Visions: Picturing Harmony in British Art, 1719–1753

Deepthi Bathala (University of Michigan) was awarded £7,500 to conduct research in the United Kingdom for the project Famine crops, Botanical Provinces, and Tropical Plantations: Architecture of the Botanic Gardens in Early Colonial India

Avantika Kumar (Harvard University) was awarded £7,500 to conduct research in the United Kingdom for the project Between Book and Body: Representations of the Word Incarnate in Late AngloSaxon Manuscripts

Renata Nagy (Yale University) was awarded £7,500 to conduct research in the United Kingdom for the project Bookish Art: Natural Historical Learning Across Media in Seventeenth-Century Northwestern Europe

Megan Shaw (University of Auckland) was awarded £7,500 to conduct research in the United Kingdom for the project A Female Favourite: Katherine Villiers, Duchess of Buckingham, 1603–1649

Archives & Library Fellowship

Chloe Julius was awarded £10,000 f or research on the project Brian Sewell and British Art History in the 1990s

Rome Fellowship

Christopher Baker (National Galleries of Scotland) was awarded £17,000 (£7,000 to individual, £10,000 to British School at Rome) to spend time at the British School at Rome to research Henry Fuseli in Rome: Defining a New, Heroic Style for British Art

Event Support Grants

Afterall was awarded £1,500 to support the Transnational Solidarities through ‘Artists for Democracy’, London 1974–77 symposium

De Montfort University was awarded £500 to support The State of Cultural Diversity in British Photography: Artistic Literacy, Educational Access and Institutional Policies conference

Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum was awarded £2,000 to support the Modern Pre-Raphaelite Visionaries conference

Nottingham Contemporary was awarded £2,000 to support The Adventure Playground: The Architecture of Contemporary Play event series

Pallant House Gallery was awarded £2,500 to support the Representing Blackness in British Modernism, 1900–1950 symposium

School of Advanced Study, University of London was awarded £2,000 to support The Medieval Diagram as Subject workshop

The Hepworth Wakefield was awarded £2,000 to support the Hepworth’s Progeny: Generations of Women in Sculpture in Britain – Lives, Works, Careers and Social Change, 1960–2021 symposium

The Higgins Bedford Art Gallery & Museum was awarded £500 to support the Body and Soul Study Day

Thelma Hulbert Gallery was awarded £2,000 to support the Ingrid Pollard –Research Commission in Devon (working title) lecture series

Research Support Grants

Claire Banks was awarded £2,000 for research on Company Drawings of Natural History

Jessica Boyall was awarded £1,237 for research on Black, British and Feminist: The History and Legacy of Ceddo, Sankofa and the Black Audio Film Collective

Helen Bremm was awarded £720 for research on Leonora Carrington’s Feminist Occult Egg Tempera Revival

Albert Brenchat-Aguilar was awarded £2,000 for research on As Hardly Found in the Art of Tropical Architecture

Tania Cleaves was awarded £1,175 for research on Sun, Sex and the Senses: Nudist Photography in Britain, c.1930–1960

Charlotte Davis was awarded £1,611 for research on Carving Out New Professional Specialisms: SeventeenthCentury Sculptors in England

Adam Eaker was awarded £2,000 for research on Autonomy and Inscription: William Wood’s ‘Joanna de Silva’

Stephen Feeke was awarded £1,500 for research on Barbara Hepworth and the Public Realm: ‘Single Form’ and ‘Meridian’

Molly-Claire Gillett was awarded £1,515 for research on Mabel Morrison: Patron and Collector of Lace

Peter Humfrey was awarded £840 for research on The Hoares of Stourhead as Collectors of Paintings (c.1740–1838)

Joshua Jenkins was awarded £1,550 for research on Joseph Gillott and the Rise of the Collector-Dealer

Hannah Kaspar was awarded £1,800 for research on Robert Adam, John Paterson, and the Edinburgh Architectural Practice

Murdo Macdonald was awarded £1,223 for research on C. T. R. Wilson’s Cloud Chamber Photographs

Sophia Merkin was awarded £2,000 for research on Historic Objects and Contemporary Display: The Past, Present, and Future Lives of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Polynesian Barkcloths

Lucie Prohin was awarded £2,000 for research on British Workers’ Dwellings Exhibited: Retracing the Circulation of Architectural Forms in Europe (1851–1913)

James Stewart was awarded £750 for research on Queering the Country House: The 9th Earl of Devon at Powderham Castle

Clare Taylor was awarded £1,991 for research on Phase 2 of Gilt Leather Rooms: Decorating with Leather Hangings in Britain

Rowan Thompson was awarded £1,342 for research on Naval Pageantry, Heritage, and Commemoration in Interwar Britain

Timothy Wilcox was awarded £1,920 for research on John Robert Cozens and William Beckford

Patrick Zamarian was awarded £1,930 for research on Architectural Education in British India: The RIBA and the Sir J. J. School of Architecture

Claire Zimmerman was awarded £2,000 for research on Alison’s Mind: A Postcolonial Architect Collages Old England

New Narratives 2022

At the May 2022 extraordinary meeting of the Advisory Council, the following grants and fellowships were awarded:

MA/MPhil Studentship

Peter Miller was awarded £32,000 for one year to undertake an MPhil in the History of Art and Architecture with a research focus on Aubrey Williams, Ronald Moody and Transnational Caribbean Ecology at the University of Cambridge

Doctoral Scholarship

Nicholas Brown was awarded £32,000 per year for three years to undertake a doctoral project titled The Significance of Magazine Publishing for Black British Art at the University of the Arts, London

Early Career Fellowship

Jareh Das was awarded £35,000 per year for two years for the project Tracing Post-Colonial Perspectives in Nigerian and British Pottery