Awardees | 2019

Christy Anderson 

Christy Anderson, professor in the department of art at the University of Toronto, examined the variety of maritime spaces in England and abroad, looking first at the ship as one of the most important types of built structures that extended English political and economic ambitions abroad. Her research sought to provide a new maritime history of England’s early modern architecture, encompassing the built structures as well as the urban and rural spaces that made England’s naval strength possible. 

Zoe Beenstock

Zoe Beenstock, lecturer in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Haifa, explored the relationship between visual and verbal representation in the creation of modern Palestine as part of her research project, “A New Jerusalem: British Romanticism Creates Palestine, 1760–1830.”

Sutapa Biswas

Sutapa Biswas, artist and reader in Fine Art at the Manchester School of Art, examined publications, prints, drawings, and other archival objects and documents that relate to the visual cultures of British India. Her research supported the development of new artworks for exhibition as part of solo exhibitions in the UK at Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge and BALTIC, Newcastle Upon Tyne.

Giorgia Bottinelli

Giorgia Bottinelli, Curator of Historical Art at Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery, undertook research for an exhibition and illustrated catalogue marking the bicentenary of the death of John Crome (Norwich, UK, 1768-1821), the first to focus solely upon John Crome since 1968.

Tabea Braun

Tabea Braun, research assistant of the postgraduate program ‘Documentary Practices. Excess and Privation’ at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Germany), explored the significance of drawings as ‘documentary’ records in the time just before the advent of photography, concentrating on topographic views in the context of eighteenth-century travel culture. 

Sria Chatterjee 

Sria Chatterjee, PhD candidate in art history at Princeton University, undertook research for her project ‘Colonial Weather’, which investigated the relationships between painting in the 19th century and the scientific and bureaucratic processes in which the weather became an object of study.

Laura Claveria 

Laura Claveria, Assistant Curator of Fine Art at Leeds Art Gallery, investigated the context, production, distribution, consumption and reception of British satirical prints from 1760 to 1830 in order to increase the understanding of Leeds Art Gallery’s satirical works on paper collection. 

Cecilio Cooper

Cecilio Cooper, PhD candidate in African American Studies at Northwestern University, researched for their project, “Nec Plus Ultra [Nothing Further Beyond]: Nullity, Negation + Non Binary Employment,” which examined tethers between demonological discourse, the sex-gender binary, and racial slavery in early modern Atlantic World territory. 

Gavin Davies

Gavin Davies, PhD candidate in the department of the history of art at the University of Exeter, examined board gaming in metropole Britain as a cultural phenomenon explicating these networks, and in the process producing, disseminating, and construing imperial relations through play, ca. 1750-1914. By reading games in relation to contemporary processes of geographical expansion, his project explored how gaming’s representative interface and participatory nature promoted, complicated, and contested practices and ideologies of imperial domination, exploitation, and violence. 

Julien Domercq

Julien Domercq, PhD candidate in the department of the history of art at the University of Cambridge, examined the representations of the peoples of the Pacific, the reception of those images in Britain, and their transformation as they came to be appropriated into popular culture. 

Katherine Faulkner

Katherine Faulkner, associate lecturer in the department of the history of art at the Courtauld Institute of Art and Arcadia University, examined the museum’s collections of nineteenth-century primary material related to the history of dress. 

Denise Rose Hansen

Denise Rose Hansen, PhD student in the Department of English Language and Literature, University College London (UCL), examined the neglected relationship between British Sixties novelists and contemporaneous artists.

Sylvia Houghtelling

Sylvia Houghteling, Assistant Professor in the Department of History of Art at Bryn Mawr College, examined the connections between the early modern visual and material cultures of Britain, South Asia, and the Islamic world, with a particular emphasis on the textile medium. Sylvia’s research project, “The Entangled Textile Histories of Britain and South Asia, 1688-1886,” focused on the cosmopolitanism of British textiles from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries.

Elena Korotkikh

Elena Korotkikh, Assistant Curator in the Department of Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century European and American Art at the State Pushkin Museum of Fine Art (Moscow, Russia), researched materials for an exhibition catalogue chapter titled “Thomas Gainsborough and the British Art Market: Artist, Collector, Influencer,” focused on the impacts on and by Thomas Gainsborough from an art market standpoint.

Sarah Mead Leonard

Sarah Mead Leonard, PhD Candidate in the Department of Art History, University of Delaware, worked on a project integrating methodologies of art history and historic landscape studies to present a new perspective on William Morris’s interactions with, and impact on, the landscapes of the River Thames.

Melina Moe

Melina Moe, Postdoctoral Researcher and Curatorial Fellow at The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, investigated how mechanical forms of weaving in the eighteenth-century burgeoned alongside the maintenance of a handicraft tradition for a book project that grew out of the Beinecke exhibition Text and Textile. 

Isabelle Mooney

Isabelle Mooney, PhD student in history of art at the University of St Andrews, researched Nigel Henderson and John McHale’s topographical and psychological engagements with the cityscape, addressing these endeavours alongside transnational histories and geographies.

Siddharth Pandey

Siddharth Pandey, PhD Candidate in English Literature and Material Culture Studies at the University of Cambridge, studied literary-visual resources that shed light on colonial era’s navigation of Indian subcontinent’s hills and mountains. 

Richard Read

Richard Read, emeritus professor and honorary senior research fellow in the School of Design at the University of Western Australia, explored the aesthetic outcomes of visual and verbal responses to the philosophical problem of Molyneux’s question concerning the powers of recognition of a blind man newly restored to sight, as it migrated from the writings of John Locke, George Berkeley, William Hazlitt, and John Ruskin to nineteenth-century American authors and artists, including Ralph Waldo Emerson and the Newport artists around Worthington Whittredge.

Cathrine Spencer

Cathrine Spencer, lecturer in the department of art history at the University of St. Andrews, addressed the complex location-specific politics formulated by art of the 1970s and 1980s in Britain, exploring how these decades witnessed the advent of artists working from feminist, queer, and postcolonial perspectives who posed significant challenges to traditional notions of landscape and identity. Her research proposed that abstraction played a central role in these challenges as relationships with place and space became increasingly attenuated under the pressures of globalization and the mass media, but also because abstraction was nonetheless still able to operate as a site of productive uncertainty and resistance. 

Sarah Thomas

Sarah Thomas is a Lecturer in History of Art & Museum Studies at Birkbeck, University of London. She was formerly a curator at the Art Gallery of South Australia. Her recent research interests focus on the art history and museology of the British empire, the role and particularities of the itinerant artist, and the iconography of slavery. Her project examined the impact of slave-ownership on art museums in Britain, focusing on the seminal period between the establishment of the National Gallery in 1824 and the National Portrait Gallery in 1856. Her book, Witnessing Slavery: Art and Travel in the Age of Abolition, is being published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press in September 2019. 

Emily Weeks

Emily Weeks, independent scholar, focused on the study of the orientalist picture frame in Western art from the Renaissance to the present day, with an emphasis on British and American frames and frame makers from the second half of the nineteenth century. 

 

Return to the Residential awards page. Return to the Current and past awardees page.