THE PAUL MELLON CENTRE FOR STUDIES IN BRITISH ART — grant history
Latest income
£8.3m
Grants listed (FY2025)
37
Listed grants total
£901k
Accounts grants total
£899k
listed grants reconcile with the accounts totalextracted from its FY2025 accounts
What this funder supports
Causes funded
Where grantees operate
- Throughout England And Wales
- Throughout England
- Throughout London
- Liverpool City
- Italy
- Kent
- Durham
- Hounslow
- Lambeth
- Knowsley
What changed: FY2024 → FY2025
| Change | Grantee | FY2024 | FY2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| new | Nazima Jamal | — | £96k |
| new | Author Grants (Large) | — | £62k |
| new | Swati Chattopadhyay (University of California) | — | £60k |
| new | Exhibition Publication Grants | — | £36k |
| new | Orjana Rudeloff | — | £32k |
| new | THE BISHOPSGATE FOUNDATION | — | £30k |
| new | THE BOWES MUSEUM | — | £30k |
| new | Forensic Architecture (Goldsmiths, University of London) and Museum of West African Art | — | £30k |
| not listed | WHITECHAPEL GALLERY | £40k | — |
| not listed | COMPTON VERNEY HOUSE CHARITY | £40k | — |
| not listed | Museums Norththumberland | £36k | — |
| not listed | Kingston University | £30k | — |
| not listed | Delaware Art Museum | £25k | — |
| not listed | Sir John Sloane's Museum | £25k | — |
| not listed | Association of Historians of Nineteenth Century Art | £23k | — |
| not listed | THE PHOTOGRAPHERS' GALLERY LTD | £21k | — |
Grants made, per its accounts filings
| Recipient | Year | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nazima Jamal | FY2025 | £96k | Doctoral Scholarship: Charting the Journey: Mapping the Ways in Which Sheba Feminist Publishers Shaped Black Feminisms and Queer Feminisms in Britain |
| Author Grants (Large) | FY2025 | £62k | Grants to individuals |
| Swati Chattopadhyay (University of California) | FY2025 | £60k | Senior Fellowship: The Art of Sovereignty: Making and Unmaking the British Empire |
| Exhibition Publication Grants | FY2025 | £36k | Grants to institutions |
| Orjana Rudeloff | FY2025 | £32k | MA/MPhil Studentship: Seeds of Invisibility: Interrogating the Intersections of Ecology and Colonialism in Ingrid Pollard’s *Three Drops of Blood* |
| Bishopsgate Institute | FY2025 | £30k | Curatorial Research Grant: The Art of Rachael Field: Lesbian Art, Archives and Tradition (1988–2024) |
| The Bowes Museum | FY2025 | £30k | Curatorial Research Grant: Acquisitions in an Altered Landscape: Exploring a Legacy of Extraction and a Future of Ecological Justice at the Bowes Museum |
| Forensic Architecture (Goldsmiths, University of London) and Museum of West African Art | FY2025 | £30k | Collaborative Project Grant: The Broken Heart of the Forest Kingdom: Digital Restitution of the Benin Bronzes to their Eco-Cultural Context |
| Household Belfast C.I.C. | FY2025 | £30k | Curatorial Research Grant: Critical Domesticities: An Archive of the Home as a Site for Artistic Production in Belfast |
| Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum | FY2025 | £30k | Curatorial Research Grant: Tempera Revival and Legacy: A Story to Be Discovered |
| Matrix Archive Group (MAG) | FY2025 | £28k | Digital Project Grant: Matrix Open: Curating a Feminist Digital Architecture Archive |
| Event Support Grants | FY2025 | £26k | Grants to institutions |
| University of Delaware | FY2025 | £25k | Conservation Research Project Grant: Conservation, Assessment and Scientific Analysis of Artworks by Simeon Solomon |
| Computer Arts Archives | FY2025 | £25k | Conservation Research Project Grant: British Cybernetic Art 1965–1975 |
| Junior Fellowships | FY2025 | £24k | Grants to individuals |
| Research Support Grants | FY2025 | £24k | Grants to individuals |
| Research Support Grants | FY2025 | £23k | Grants to individuals |
| Digitisation Grants | FY2025 | £20k | Grants to institutions |
| Caroline Bressey (University College London) | FY2025 | £18k | Mid-Career Fellowship: Ordinary Lives: Photographic Encounters with Black Victorians |
| Edwin Coomasaru (independent scholar) | FY2025 | £18k | Mid-Career Fellowship: Queer Ecologies and Abundant Aesthetics in Sri Lankan Art, 1926–2024 |
| Maryam Ohadi-Hamadani (University of Edinburgh) | FY2025 | £18k | Mid-Career Fellowship: The Commonwealth of Art and Visual Culture in Postwar Britain, 1948–1978 |
| Stephanie O’Rourke (University of St Andrews) | FY2025 | £18k | Mid-Career Fellowship: Landscapes from Below, 1770–1830 |
| Nina Vollenbroker (The Bartlett School of Architecture) | FY2025 | £18k | Mid-Career Fellowship: Hide and Speak: An Architectural History of Deaf Education in Britain (1840–1900) |
| Alison Bennett (University of Cambridge) | FY2025 | £18k | Mid-Career Fellowship: African Saints and the Visual and Material Culture of British Churches: A Case Study of the Uganda Martyrs |
| Event Support Grants | FY2025 | £18k | Grants to institutions |
| Liverpool John Moores University | FY2025 | £16k | Digital Project Grant: “Our Most Beautiful Mechanical Contrivances”: Exhibiting Empire in Nineteenth-Century Liverpool |
| Theo Gordon | FY2025 | £15k | Postdoctoral Fellowship: Viral Landscapes: Art and HIV/AIDS in the UK |
| Danielle Hewitt | FY2025 | £15k | Postdoctoral Fellowship: On The Architectural History Of Destruction: A Material History of London’s Bombsite Debris |
| Sean Ketteringham | FY2025 | £15k | Postdoctoral Fellowship: Postwar Folk: Modernism, Britain, and the Anthropological Imagination |
| Alina Khakoo | FY2025 | £15k | Postdoctoral Fellowship: We Shift You: Art, Infrastructure, Anti-Racism and Feminism in Britain, 1980–97 |
| Carly Boxer | FY2025 | £15k | Postdoctoral Fellowship: Pictures of Health: Medicine, The Body, and Its Image in Late Medieval England |
| Tobah Aukland | FY2025 | £15k | Postdoctoral Fellowship: British Art and Extraction, 1937–1975 |
| Melissa Carlson | FY2025 | £15k | Postdoctoral Fellowship: Painting Protest: Censorship, Subversion, and the Avant-garde in Socialist Burma (1962-1988) |
| British School at Rome | FY2025 | £12k | Rome Fellowship: Residency for Tom Young |
| Tom Young (The Courtauld) | FY2025 | £7k | Rome Fellowship: Honorarium for research on “Old Indians” in Italy |
| Andrew Wyld Research Support Grants | FY2025 | £4k | Grants to individuals |
| Author Grants (Small) | FY2025 | £3k | Grants to individuals |
| Whitechapel Gallery | FY2024 | £40k | Curatorial Research Grants |
| Compton Verney House Charity | FY2024 | £40k | Curatorial Research Grants |
| Museums Norththumberland | FY2024 | £36k | Curatorial Research Grants |
| Kingston University | FY2024 | £30k | Digital Project Grants |
| Delaware Art Museum | FY2024 | £25k | Curatorial Research Grants |
| Sir John Sloane's Museum | FY2024 | £25k | Conservation Grant |
| Association of Historians of Nineteenth Century Art | FY2024 | £23k | Digital Project Grants |
| The Photographers' Gallery | FY2024 | £21k | Digital Project Grants |
| Queen's University, Belfast | FY2024 | £20k | Collaborative Project Grants |
| Camden Art Centre | FY2024 | £20k | Curatorial Research Grants |
| Queen Mary, University of London & University of Aberdeen | FY2024 | £20k | Collaborative Project Grants |
| Hamilton Kerr Institute, Fitzwilliam Museum | FY2024 | £19k | Conservation Grant |
| British School at Rome | FY2024 | £12k | Rome Fellowship |
| The Hepworth Wakefield | FY2024 | £10k | Publication Grants |
| Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art | FY2024 | £7k | Publication Grants |
| Nottingham contemporary | FY2024 | £7k | Publication Grants |
| Manchester University Press | FY2024 | £7k | Publication Grants |
| University of Edinburgh | FY2024 | £6k | Digital Project Grants |
| Oxbow Books | FY2024 | £6k | Publication Grants |
| Whitechapel Gallery | FY2024 | £5k | Publication Grants |
| Yale University Press London | FY2024 | £5k | Publication Grants |
| Drawing Room | FY2024 | £5k | Publication Grants |
| McGil-Queens' University Press | FY2024 | £5k | Publication Grants |
| National Galleries of Scotland | FY2024 | £5k | Publication Grants |
| National Museums Liverpool | FY2024 | £5k | Publication Grants |
| The Hunterian | FY2024 | £5k | Publication Grants |
| The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press | FY2024 | £5k | Publication Grants |
| Warwick University | FY2024 | £5k | Publication Grants |
| Leeds Museums and Galleries | FY2024 | £3k | Event Support Grants |
| Letchworth Heritage Foundation | FY2024 | £3k | Event Support Grants |
| Liverpool Cathedral | FY2024 | £3k | Event Support Grants |
| Mount Stuart Trust | FY2024 | £3k | Event Support Grants |
| Studio Voltaire | FY2024 | £3k | Event Support Grants |
| The Stained Glass Museum | FY2024 | £3k | Event Support Grants |
| Peckham Platform | FY2024 | £3k | Event Support Grants |
| Universidad de San Buenaventura Cali | FY2024 | £2k | Event Support Grants |
| Kunsthalle Mannheim | FY2024 | £2k | Event Support Grants |
| Pallant House | FY2024 | £2k | Event Support Grants |
| The Photographers' Gallery | FY2024 | £2k | Event Support Grants |
| The Womens's Art Library (Goldsmith's, University of London University | FY2024 | £2k | Event Support Grants |
| V&A | FY2024 | £2k | Event Support Grants |
| Royal Holloway, University of London | FY2024 | £1k | Event Support Grants |
| University of Westminster | FY2024 | £1k | Event Support Grants |
| University of York | FY2024 | £600 | Event Support Grants |
| Museum of the Home | FY2023 | £37k | Curatorial Research Grants |
| Turner Contemporary | FY2023 | £35k | Curatorial Research Grants |
| Drawing Room Tannery Arts | FY2023 | £30k | Curatorial Research Grants |
| Four Corners | FY2023 | £30k | Digital Project Grants |
| Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) | FY2023 | £30k | Curatorial Research Grants |
| Tate | FY2023 | £30k | Digital Project Grants |
| The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge | FY2023 | £25k | Conservation Grant |
| The Royal Academy of Arts | FY2023 | £22k | Curatorial Research Grants |
| Arts Council Collection | FY2023 | £20k | Collaborative Project Grants |
| University of East Anglia | FY2023 | £20k | Collaborative Project Grants |
| University of Lincoln | FY2023 | £20k | Digital Project Grants |
| British School at Rome | FY2023 | £12k | Rome Fellowship |
| The Hepworth Wakefield, in collaboration with A Practice for Everyday Life | FY2023 | £10k | Publication Grants |
| No Place Press | FY2023 | £8k | Publication Grants |
| Book Works | FY2023 | £8k | Publication Grants |
| The Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland | FY2023 | £8k | Publication Grants |
| The Lutterworth Press | FY2023 | £7k | Publication Grants |
| Yale University Press London | FY2023 | £5k | Publication Grants |
| MACK | FY2023 | £5k | Publication Grants |
| Tate Publishing | FY2023 | £5k | Publication Grants |
| North Herts Council | FY2023 | £5k | Publication Grants |
| Lund Humphries and Royal West of England Academy (RWA) | FY2023 | £3k | Publication Grants |
| University of Cambridge | FY2023 | £2k | Event Support Grants |
| Dartington, Devon | FY2023 | £2k | Event Support Grants |
| Westminster Abbey | FY2023 | £2k | Event Support Grants |
| University of Wolverhampton | FY2023 | £2k | Event Support Grants |
| Murray Edwards College, Cambridge | FY2023 | £2k | Event Support Grants |
| V&A Wedgwood Collection (Barlaston) and V&A South Kensington (London) | FY2023 | £2k | Event Support Grants |
| Sky Room, MK Gallery, Milton Keynes | FY2023 | £2k | Event Support Grants |
| Touchstones, Rochdale | FY2023 | £2k | Event Support Grants |
| London Linnean Society | FY2023 | £1k | Event Support Grants |
| Liverpool University Press | FY2023 | £1k | Publication Grants |
| Universität Basel | FY2023 | £1k | Event Support Grants |
| The UK Antarctic Heritage Trust (UKAHT) | FY2023 | £1k | Event Support Grants |
| Victorian Society and/or Liverpool University Press | FY2023 | £381 | Publication Grants |
| The Courtauld Institute of Art | FY2022 | £40k | Digital Project Grants |
| University of East Anglia | FY2022 | £40k | Digital Project Grants |
| University of Salford and Royal Institute of British Architects, Liverpool | FY2022 | £32k | Collaborative Project Grants |
| National Galleries of Scotland and University of Edinburgh | FY2022 | £32k | Collaborative Project Grants |
| Birmingham Museums Trust | FY2022 | £30k | Curatorial Research Grants |
| Royal Museums Greenwich | FY2022 | £30k | Curatorial Research Grants |
| The Hepworth Wakefield | FY2022 | £27k | Curatorial Research Grants |
| Gainsborough's House | FY2022 | £25k | Conservation Grant |
| Turner's House Trust | FY2022 | £20k | Curatorial Research Grants |
| Fitzwilliam Museum | FY2022 | £20k | Curatorial Research Grants |
| British School at Rome | FY2022 | £20k | Rome Fellowship |
| Portsmouth City Council and Silver Society, Royal Navy | FY2022 | £15k | Collaborative Project Grants |
| Paul Holberton Publishing | FY2022 | £10k | Publication Grants |
| The Stephen Lawrence Gallery | FY2022 | £10k | Curatorial Research Grants |
| Bluecoat | FY2022 | £10k | Publication Grants |
| Lund Humphries | FY2022 | £8k | Publication Grants |
| Reaktion Books | FY2022 | £7k | Publication Grants |
| Northumbria University | FY2022 | £3k | Event Support Grants |
| Pallant House Gallery | FY2022 | £3k | Event Support Grants |
| The Hepworth Wakefield | FY2022 | £2k | Event Support Grants |
| Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum | FY2022 | £2k | Event Support Grants |
| Nottingham Contemporary | FY2022 | £2k | Event Support Grants |
| School of Advanced Study, University of London | FY2022 | £2k | Event Support Grants |
| Thelma Hulbert Gallery | FY2022 | £2k | Event Support Grants |
| Afterall | FY2022 | £2k | Event Support Grants |
| The William Morris Society | FY2022 | £1k | Event Support Grants |
| Fieldnotes | FY2022 | £1k | Event Support Grants |
| University of Dundee | FY2022 | £500 | Event Support Grants |
| The Higgins Bedford Art Gallery & Museum | FY2022 | £500 | Event Support Grants |
| De Montfort University | FY2022 | £500 | Event Support Grants |