Recent Grants Awarded

Arts Grants Awarded in 2007

Exceptional Projects

  1. The Poetry Archive
    £25,000 towards the cost of extending the international remit of this unique on-line resource of poetry recordings.

  2. Tate Britain
    £50,000 as the first of three annual grants to Tate Britain for the Gulbenkian Curator of Contemporary Art for the Tate Triennial 2009 exhibition.

The Arts and Science

  1. Lise Autogena and Joshua Portway
    £15,000 towards the realisation of a computer-generated website artwork that attempts to find and display ‘the most blue skies’ in the world.

  2. Camden Arts Centre
    £5,000 towards the cost of renovating a large mobile by the British artist Kenneth Martin (which was originally commissioned for London Zoo in 1967 with a grant from the Foundation), and of reinstating it in a forthcoming exhibition.

  3. Andrew Carnie and Alexa Wright
    (CARTE, University of Westminster)
    £6,000 towards interdisciplinary research into the experience of heart transplantation, with a view to assisting clinicians in envisaging patients’ self-identity, and creating new artworks.

  4. Foundation for Art and Creative Technology (FACT)
    £10,000 towards an international conference to open the first major British exhibition of biotechnological art, organised at the Foundation for Art and Creative Technology (FACT) at the start of European Capital of Culture year in 2008.

  5. Galapagos Conservation Trust
    £40,000 towards a second year of the Gulbenkian Galapagos Artist Residency Programme.

  6. Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge University
    £10,000 towards the development of a new programme of activities to bring together leading international experts from the arts and from science to explore the Aesthetics of Astrophotography.

  7. Magnum Photos
    £10,000 towards the cost of commissioning a body of work from the photographer Stuart Franklin who will explore ways of making effective visual representations of climate change in Europe.

  8. The Natural History Museum
    £65,000 towards the organisation of a competition to select and commission an artist to create a permanent artwork for the ceiling panels in the inner gallery in the museum’s reception hall, and for related education activities.

  9. The Natural History Museum
    £30,000 for the development of a new art and science exhibition, planned for 2008/9, inspired by Darwin's 1871 book The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, a collaboration between the Museum and the Centre for Literature and Cultural Studies in Berlin and the Centre for the History of Knowledge, Zurich.

  10. Random Dance Company
    £15,000 towards an intensive creative process with international cognitive scientists, neuroscientists and artificial intelligence experts towards the creation of new performance pieces.

  11. Royal Society of Arts (RSA)
    £15,000 towards the development of a public art project in the city of Bristol addressing concerns about environmental change.

The Arts in Public Spaces

  1. Artichoke
    £20,000 towards three years research and development for a series of new, large-scale public art productions.

  2. Arts in the Peak
    £8,000 towards the creation of a series of artist-made guide stones to complement the existing eighteenth-century waymarks in the moorlands of the Derbyshire Peak District.

  3. Canolfan Crannog
    £10,000 for the artist Teena Gould to undertake research with local experts into the history, geology and culture of the coastline of Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire, in order to create a new body of ceramic work using site-specific materials.

  4. Chapter Arts Centre
    £20,000 to commission four artists to create 'social spaces' as part of a programme of continuity at this Cardiff-based arts centre during its twelve-month period of redevelopment.

  5. Chrysalis Arts Development
    £8,000 towards the research and development of a Slow Art Trail to take place in the North Yorkshire market town of Skipton and in the surrounding Yorkshire Dales.

  6. The Collective Gallery
    £14,000 towards One Mile, a programme facilitating artists to make public artworks with local groups within a one-mile radius of the gallery in central Edinburgh.

  7. Fevered Sleep
    £10,000 towards the development of a site-specific installation and performance piece about the quality and nature of coastal light, to open in Brighton and to be subsequently adapted for the coasts of northern Scotland, West Wales and North Yorkshire.

  8. Folkestone Sculpture Triennale
    (Metropole Arts Centre Trust)
    £10,000 towards the development costs of an ambitious programme of site-specific works for this Channel port town.

  9. Ikon Gallery
    £20,000 towards research and development costs for a programme of new works by international artists to be sited in various communities across the city of Birmingham.

  10. Interlude Arts Community Interest Company
    £5,000 towards research into the practicalities of establishing a Dispersed Gallery in various locations in the city of Bath in order to find ways of making new contemporary art more accessible in this historic setting.

  11. IQUN
    £7,000 towards the development costs of a new site-specific performance in Manchester by the writer and director Neil Barlett.

  12. NVA
    £20,000 to develop ideas, in partnership with the National Theatre of Scotland, for a series of visual-art installations over 150 square miles of ancient landscape recently made accessible in the Argyll forests.

  13. O + I
    (Camden Arts Centre)
    £6,000 towards the development of an archive, a pilot series of artists' residencies and a touring performance by the artist Barbara Steveni, co-founder of the influential Artist Placement Group.

  14. Platform for Art
    £20,000 to explore the potential for presenting a high-profile programme of public art at Stratford Underground Station in the lead-up to the 2012 Olympic Games.

  15. Poet in the City
    £10,000 towards research into the use of poetry in the built environment.

  16. South London Gallery
    £15,000 to support the development of a public art programme at a neighbouring housing estate.

  17. Sustrans
    £14,000 towards a new development of the artwork programme for the National Cycle Network, investigating environmental issues and involving artists and scientists.

Director's Grants

  1. Awst & Walther
    (The Architecture Foundation)
    £5,000 for research, following their project Digger, for a catalogue called Dreammachine.

  2. Royal Institute of British Architects Trust
    £15,000 towards the costs of a symposium on Le Corbusier, to be held in Liverpool during 2008.

  3. World Monuments Fund in Britain
    £15,000 towards the costs of running a final lead statue conservation workshop in the UK.

Arts Grants Awarded in 2006

Exceptional Project

  1. Tate Britain
    £50,000 as the final tranche towards the Tate Triennial 2006 exhibition.

Research and Development

  1. Artangel
    £20,000 towards the early development costs of five new projects involving international artists.

  2. Kutlug Ataman and Michael Nyman
    (Whitchapel Gallery)
    £15,000 towards a collaboration between the artist and film-maker Kutlug Ataman and the composer Michael Nyman to develop a new project inspired by home movies.

  3. The Big Art Trust (Act 4)
    £15,000 towards the commissioning and development costs of a new public artwork on the Isle of Mull, as part of the Channel 4’s Big Art Project.

  4. Cape Farewell
    £20,000 towards the development of a range of artists’ projects addressing the subject of climate change.

  5. Georgia Chatzivasileiadi
    (History Faculty, University of Oxford)
    £5,000 towards the development of a new art installation which reflects on the way the mind perceives projected images.

  6. Cheltenham Festivals
    £5,000 towards discussions about the relationship between science and literary writing to take place at The Times Cheltenham Literature Festival, which will assist the Foundation in developing its own commissioning policy in this area.

  7. City of London Festival
    £8,000 towards a collaboration between composer and jazz musician Julian Joseph and novelist and historian Mike Phillips to create a new work based on the abolition of slavery.

  8. Commissions East
    £15,000 to enable this public art agency to develop the potential for new commissions in the East of England, that will address environmental matters and explore new collaborations with international arts agencies.

  9. Contemporary Art Society
    £30,000 to initiate a new Collection Development programme.

  10. The Cotswold Water Park
    £15,000 towards the costs of two projects involving high-profile artists to engage with the ecology and the community around this man-made wetland area sited on the old flood plain near the source of the River Thames.

  11. Duchy Opera
    £4,000 to enable performers at this Cornwall-based opera company to work on a revised version of Ethel Smyth’s 1903/04 opera The Wreckers.

  12. Frieze Art Fair
    (Lux)
    £15,000 to enable three international artists, Yoko Ono, Stephan Dillemuth and Guy Sherwin, to develop performance-based projects to be presented in the Artists Cinema at Frieze Art Fair.

  13. The Ikon Gallery
    £5,000 to enable the artist Olafur Eliasson to undertake research with scientific experts in human colour perception for a new commission by this Birmingham gallery.

  14. Institute of International Visual Arts (inIVA)
    £20,000 towards the development of four sculpture proposals for the new building that will house this international arts agency.

  15. Patrick Keiller
    (Royal College of Art)
    £5,000 towards the costs of a period of research and development in order to investigate the documentation of urban landscapes and their change over time for an eventual feature film.

  16. Dorothy Ker and Company
    (Sheffield University)
    £5,000 towards a series of workshops involving a composer, sculptor, choreographer, architect and mathematician, to develop a new music-theatre piece.

  17. King's College London Materials Archive
    £8,000 towards a series of events, which will also be documented, to explore the connections between art and materials science in the four recently rehung permanent collection galleries at Tate Modern.

  18. Liliane Lijn
    (The Arts Catalyst)
    £5,000 towards the development costs of Solar Hills, a large-scale solar installation in the landscape.

  19. Liverpool Biennial
    £5,000 to undertake research into various aspects of the environmental impact of this major international festival of the visual arts.

  20. London Fieldworks
    (Linnhe Leisure Limited)
    £10,500 towards the further development of Outlandia, a remote artists’ field station with tree-house observatories in the Forest of Glen Nevis.

  21. The Lowry
    £15,000 towards the commissioning of the photographer Jem Southam to work with a poet to create an eventual exhibition of photographs in response to the industrial landscape along the North-West coast of England.

  22. National Student Drama Festival
    £20,000 towards the costs of the Workshop Programme for aspiring theatre professionals.

  23. Natural History Museum
    £30,000 towards a further development of the Museum’s Arts and Science Programme.

  24. On Theatre
    £5,000 towards the development of a new performed ‘theatre essay’ on the subject of religion, to be co-devised by the company with the philosopher A.C. Grayling.

  25. Ruth Padel
    (The Poetry Society)
    £5,000 towards research into the natural habitat and life-cycle of the king cobra for a new work which will be both fiction and natural history conservation documentary.

  26. Inês Rebelo
    (Goldsmiths College)
    £2,000 towards the development of a visual arts project addressing the nature of observation and perception and involving botanical illustrators who will work with the artist.

  27. Royal Institute of British Architects Trust
    £15,000 towards the research and development costs of a new exhibition devoted to the work of Le Corbusier to be mounted in Liverpool and London.

  28. Running Beast
    £8,000 towards the development of a piece of outdoor music theatre in County Donegal to mark the 400th anniversary of a significant historical event, the Flight of the Earls.

  29. Sadler’s Wells
    £20,000 towards a new programme of artworks, films and events to be sited in the public areas in and around this highly successful dance theatre venue and to be called MORE from Sadler’s Wells.

  30. Scarabeus Theatre Company
    £9,000 towards a development period for the company to explore ways of applying their skills in physical theatre, dance and acrobatics to a new work, Shimadai - when orchids fly, created especially for woodland locations.

  31. Serpentine Gallery
    £15,000 towards the Agency for Unrealised Projects in which a range of international artists will be invited to develop as yet unachievable ideas for public display.

  32. Tabula Rasa Dance Company
    £5,000 towards the development costs of a collaborative project by a landscape architect, playwright, choreographer and digital designers to create a new work in response to the cultural history of the Scottish peatland.

  33. The University of Oxford Botanic Garden
    £15,000 towards the development of a permanent installation in the Garden’s greenhouses by the artist Rob Kesseler.

  34. The University of Oxford, Department of Biochemistry
    £15,000 towards the development of works by four artists commissioned for a major art initiative in a new building.

  35. Craig Vear
    (University of York)
    £7,000 towards the development costs of Singing Ringing Buoy, an innovative music composition exploring the sounds of Weather and Sea for a museum installation.

  36. Yorkshire Sculpture Park
    £15,000 to support a visiting artist’s residency for the poet Simon Armitage who will create poetry for a new publication and work with visual artists on ‘text into landscape’ installations in the Park.

  37. Zap Art
    £5,000 towards the development, in collaboration with Wild Works, of a format for new landscape/people-scape theatre events for UK and European locations, based on the hidden narratives of Dockyards.

Research and Development with Non-professionals

  1. Lisa Alexander
    (Artsadmin)
    £4,500 towards the development of a new project which will explore how personal stories relate to social and architectural spaces, starting with the site of an underground labyrinth of tunnels in Liverpool.

  2. Baltic
    £15,000 towards the costs of a residency at Baltic for the Puerto Rican painter Dzine who will create new work with a Gateshead youth group.

Director's Grants

  1. The Architecture Foundation
    £7,800 for artists’ fees towards the Digger project in Swansea and Ruhrgebiet, Germany.

  2. The Friends of Bradford Art Galleries and Museums
    £15,000 towards the costs of the Connect: People, Place and Imagination programme.

Endangered Species, Siobhan Davies Dance Company, 2006