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THE PAUL MELLON CENTRE FOR STUDIES IN BRITISH ART

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The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art was established for charitable purposes to advance the education in, & appreciation & understanding of British art history & architecture, in the UK & elsewhere by engaging in & promoting research, publishing books & journals, holding academic events & education programmes, providing library & archive resources, & awarding grants & fellowships.

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THE PAUL MELLON CENTRE
16 BEDFORD SQUARE
LONDON
WC1B 3JA

Charity registered in England & Wales, No: 313838
Charity Commission for England and Wales
Analysis of Grants Made
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  • In this period 73 donations have been made totalling £754,979 to 65 organisations
  • This grant maker is prepared to support unregistered organisations

Where are the Beneficiaries?
How big are the Recipients? ?
  • Average annual spending of registered grantees: £51,047,500
Which activities are being funded?
How old were the charities when supported?
Growth in Spending
(per annum over last 3 years)
Main Overlaps with other Grant Makers ?
By ValueBy Number
National Lottery Heritage Fund 37% 23%
Wolfson Foundation 26% 20%
Garfield Weston Foundation 22% 20%
DCMS 20% 8%
ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND 20% 6%
City Bridge Trust 18% 8%
The Foyle Foundation 17% 11%
John Ellerman Foundation 16% 6%
The Grocers' Charity 15% 6%
Esmee Fairbairn 14% 14%
Sole supporter: 57% by number, 43% by value.
Individual Grants Made
When Amount/
Spending		 Recipient To be used for
22/03/2024 £3,000
 LIVERPOOL CATHEDRAL Support towards the event Sir Giles Gilbert Scott: National Icons and Modern Challenges
22/03/2024 £3,000
 MOUNT STUART TRUST Support towards the event Mount Stuart Trust Symposium 2024: The Art of Uncomfortable Truths
22/03/2024 £2,000
 THE VICTORIA & ALBERT MUSEUM Support towards the event Rethinking Francis Williams
22/03/2024 £2,000
 THE WOMEN'S ART LIBRARY (GOLDSMITHS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON) Support towards the event Re-appraising the Legacy of 20th Century British Landscape Painter, Yasmin David, at Luscombe Farm
22/03/2024 £2,000
 KUNSTHALLE MANNHEIM Support towards the event On Bodies, Class and Feminism: A Lecture Series on Sarah Lucas
22/03/2024 £600
 UNIVERSITY OF YORK Support towards the event Texture in the Medieval World
22/03/2024 £2,650
£397,297 		PECKHAM PLATFORM Support towards the event Memories for the Future: Social Architecture
22/03/2024 £3,000
£1,436,551 		STUDIO VOLTAIRE Support towards the event Beryl Cook: Public talks programme
22/03/2024 £2,000
 UNIVERSIDAD DE SAN BUENAVENTURA CALI Support towards the event Academic Encounters: Exhibition The Middle Hall English House in Bogotá
22/03/2024 £3,000
£246,205 		THE STAINED GLASS MUSEUM Support towards the event Recording British Stained Glass - the Future of Databases
23/11/2023 £20,000
 QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY BELFAST Support towards the collaborative research project Miners’ Modernism: Mapping the social impact and legacy of Pithead Baths
23/11/2023 £19,593
 QUEEN MARY, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON Support towards the collaborative research project Women Making Art History in post-war Britain, ca. 1945-1974
23/11/2023 £18,757
£124,640 		HAMILTON KERR INSTITUTE, FITZWILLIAM MUSEUM Support towards the conservation of Leonora Carrington’s Tempera Paintings, 1945–47
23/11/2023 £40,000
£28,931,918 		COMPTON VERNEY Support towards the curatorial research project Reimagining Compton Verney’s Folk Art Collection
23/11/2023 £25,000
 DELAWARE ART MUSEUM Support towards the curatorial research project Simeon Solomon: Queer and Jewish in Victorian London
23/11/2023 £36,000
£2,283,817 		MUSEUMS NORTHUMBERLAND Support towards the curatorial research project PP XC - 90 Years of The Pitmen Painters
23/11/2023 £40,000
£5,269,435 		WHITECHAPEL GALLERY Support towards the curatorial research project Expanding the Contemporary British Art Canon: New research, exhibitions and publications on the work of Hamad Butt, Joy Gregory and Gavin Jantjes
23/11/2023 £20,000
£2,317,473 		CAMDEN ART CENTRE Support towards the curatorial research project Caught in the Middle (*Working title)
23/11/2023 £22,960
 ASSOCIATION OF HISTORIANS OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY ART (ON BEHALF OF THE SCHOLARLY JOURNAL NINETEENTH-CENTURY ART WORLDWIDE) Support towards the digital project Annotating The New Union Club: Anti-racist Ethics and Curation for Digital Art Histories
23/11/2023 £20,945
£4,437,243 		THE PHOTOGRAPHERS’ GALLERY Support towards the digital project Thinking, Mindless, Unthinking Photography: A Contemporary Perspective
23/11/2023 £30,000
 KINGSTON UNIVERSITY Support towards the digital project The Shadow of Ruination: the expression of post-war, diasporic anxiety through modernist Catholic Churches in Britain
23/11/2023 £5,847
 UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH Support towards the digital project Windows on the Past: Digital Analysis of Window Design in Later Medieval England
23/11/2023 £1,000
 UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER Support towards the event Women In Revolt: radical acts, contemporary resonances
23/11/2023 £2,000
 PALLANT HOUSE GALLERY Support towards the event The Shape of Things: Still Life in British Art 1650-2024
23/11/2023 £2,000
£4,437,243 		THE PHOTOGRAPHER'S GALLERY Support towards the event Bert Hardy: Picturing Britain
23/11/2023 £3,000
 LEEDS MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES Support towards the event Public Houses? What makes civic custodianship of historic house museums in Britain different and where next?
23/11/2023 £1,328
 ROYAL HOLLOWAY, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON Support towards the event The Performing Object: Ceramics as Performance – an Interdisciplinary Symposium
23/11/2023 £3,000
 LETCHWORTH HERITAGE FOUNDATION Support towards the event Amal Ghosh Bridge - exhibition and engagement project symposium
23/11/2023 £5,000
 THE HUNTERIAN Support towards the publication Digging in Another Time: Derek Jarman’s Modern Nature
23/11/2023 £5,000
 NATIONAL MUSEUMS LIVERPOOL Support towards the publication Black (working title)
23/11/2023 £7,000
£5,460,794 		BALTIC CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART Support towards the publication Franki Raffles: Photography, Activism, Campaign Works
23/11/2023 £5,000
£5,269,435 		WHITECHAPEL GALLERY Support towards the publication Whitechapel Gallery: A Legacy in Public Education 1979–1990 (WIP title only)
23/11/2023 £2,000
 MCGILL-QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY PRESS Support towards the publication Thomas Tegg, Late Georgian Graphic Satire, and the Aesthetics of Modernity
23/11/2023 £5,000
 YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS Support towards the publication The Mack: Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Glasgow School of Art
23/11/2023 £7,000
£2,302,428 		NOTTINGHAM CONTEMPORARY Support towards the publication Donald Rodney
23/11/2023 £2,500
 ARCHAEOPRESS Support towards the publication LIMOGES Enamels: French art in medieval England, with a Gazetteer of Limoges enamels found in England
23/11/2023 £5,000
 NATIONAL GALLERIES OF SCOTLAND Support towards the publication Everlyn Nicodemus [working title]
23/11/2023 £6,750
£4,073,057 		HEPWORTH WAKEFIELD Support towards the publication Ronald Moody: His Universe
23/11/2023 £2,000
 LUND HUMPHRIES Support towards the publication The Modern British City
23/11/2023 £3,900
 MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS Support towards the publication Caribbean Eco-Aesthetics
16/03/2023 £2,000
 DARTINGTON HOUSE TRUST Support towards the event CREATIVE SANCTUARY: DARTINGTON IN THE 1930s AND BEYOND
16/03/2023 £2,000
 MURRAY EDWARDS COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE Support towards the event The Women’s Art Collection: Artworks and Artists in Context
16/03/2023 £1,500
£69,724,167 		BRITISH ACADEMY Support towards the event Histories, Art Histories and Heritage Narratives in Eastern Africa
16/03/2023 £1,000
 EIKONES, UNIVERSITäT BASEL Support towards the event Materializing Transparency
16/03/2023 £1,400
£2,008,617 		THE LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON Support towards the event Extinct: Empire, Art, Natural Histories in a Vanishing Planet
16/03/2023 £1,500
£2,216,574 		MK GALLERY Support towards the event Conference on ‘Entangled Histories: South Asian Miniatures and Britain’
16/03/2023 £1,500
£361,167 		WESTMINSTER ABBEY Support towards the event Workshop: Westminster Abbey C16th Terracotta analysis
10/11/2022 £20,000
 ARTS COUNCIL COLLECTION Support towards the collaborative research project Mapping the Collection: Arts Council Collection collaborative research project
10/11/2022 £20,000
 UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA Support towards the collaborative research project Exhibiting Oceans in the UK Today
10/11/2022 £24,973
£124,640 		FITZWILLIAM MUSEUM Support towards the John Constable conservation project
10/11/2022 £35,000
£3,300,484 		TURNER CONTEMPORARY Support towards the curatorial research project ’Resistance’ considers the relationship between photography, activism and politics in Britain for 125 years
10/11/2022 £37,366
£3,762,520 		MUSEUM OF THE HOME Support towards the curatorial research project Homes Through Time
10/11/2022 £22,287
£36,669,000 		THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS Support towards the curatorial research project Entangled Pasts The Royal Academy, Enslavement and Empire
10/11/2022 £30,000
 VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM (V&A) Support towards the curatorial research project Hubs, Nodes and Networks: a new history of British digital art
10/11/2022 £30,401
 DRAWING ROOM/TANNERY ARTS Support towards the curatorial research project The Time of Our Lives
10/11/2022 £30,000
£5,675,648 		TATE Support towards the digital project Alison’s Mind: A Collage Scrapbook of Postcolonial Imagery on Old England
10/11/2022 £30,000
£613,451 		FOUR CORNERS Support towards the digital project On the Move: the Half Moon Photography Workshop touring exhibitions Digital Archive project
10/11/2022 £20,000
 UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN Support towards the digital project Morphing Virtual Spaces: Medieval Architecture and Illusion
10/11/2022 £1,000
 KETTLE'S YARD Support towards the event Radical Art in Cambridge
10/11/2022 £2,000
£13,757,506 		TOUCHSTONES ROCHDALE Support towards the event A Tall Order! – Rochdale Art Gallery in the 1980s: Public talks programme
10/11/2022 £2,000
 WOLVERHAMPTON SCHOOL OF ART, UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON Support towards the event Form, Function, Future
10/11/2022 £1,500
 VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM (V&A) Support towards the event Unpacking the V&A Wedgwood Collection: a two-day symposium exploring new research avenues for Wedgwood studies
10/11/2022 £1,500
£517,303 		UK ANTARTIC HERITAGE TRUST Support towards the event Architecture on Ice: the hidden story of British post-war buildings in Antarctica
10/11/2022 £5,000
 BOOK WORKS Support towards the publication Women of Colour Index Reading Group
10/11/2022 £5,000
£5,675,648 		TATE Support towards the publication Church of the Poison Mind: Queer Art and Club Culture in 1980s Britain
10/11/2022 £2,000
 YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS Support towards the publication Women Artists Together: Feminism, Art and Collaboration in the Age of Women’s Liberation
10/11/2022 £2,000
£765,717 		LUX Support towards the publication Artists’ Moving Image in Scotland (working title)
10/11/2022 £5,000
£602,736 		THE ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND Support towards the publication Building Imperial Calcutta: Making the Capital of British India, 1880-1911
10/11/2022 £2,322
 BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING Support towards the publication Queer Crafts: Materiality, Identity and Contemporary Practices
10/11/2022 £4,900
 NORTH HERTFORDSHIRE COUNCIL Support towards the publication Camden Town to Garden City: the Letchworth paintings of Gilman, Gore & Ratcliffe
10/11/2022 £7,000
£4,073,057 		HEPWORTH WAKEFIELD Support towards the publication Kim Lim
10/11/2022 £7,000
 THE LUTTERWORTH PRESS Support towards the publication Through a Glass Brightly: Norfolk’s Medieval Stained Glass
10/11/2022 £5,000
 NO PLACE PRESS Support towards the publication The Effect of Tropical Light on White Men
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Cumulative Grants
Amount Recipient
£45,000 WHITECHAPEL GALLERY
£43,730 HAMILTON KERR INSTITUTE, FITZWILLIAM MUSEUM
£40,000 COMPTON VERNEY
£37,366 MUSEUM OF THE HOME
£36,000 MUSEUMS NORTHUMBERLAND
£35,000 TURNER CONTEMPORARY
£35,000 TATE
£33,500 THE VICTORIA & ALBERT MUSEUM
£30,401 DRAWING ROOM/TANNERY ARTS
£30,000 KINGSTON UNIVERSITY
£30,000 FOUR CORNERS
£25,000 DELAWARE ART MUSEUM
£22,960 ASSOCIATION OF HISTORIANS OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY ART (ON BEHALF OF THE SCHOLARLY JOURNAL NINETEENTH-CENTURY ART WORLDWIDE)
£22,945 THE PHOTOGRAPHERS’ GALLERY
£22,287 THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS
£20,000 UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN
£20,000 UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA
£20,000 QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY BELFAST
£20,000 CAMDEN ART CENTRE
£20,000 ARTS COUNCIL COLLECTION
£19,593 QUEEN MARY, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
£13,750 HEPWORTH WAKEFIELD
£7,000 YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
£7,000 THE LUTTERWORTH PRESS
£7,000 NOTTINGHAM CONTEMPORARY
£7,000 BALTIC CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART
£5,847 UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH
£5,000 THE ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND
£5,000 THE HUNTERIAN
£5,000 NO PLACE PRESS
£5,000 NATIONAL MUSEUMS LIVERPOOL
£5,000 NATIONAL GALLERIES OF SCOTLAND
£5,000 BOOK WORKS
£4,900 NORTH HERTFORDSHIRE COUNCIL
£3,900 MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS
£3,000 THE STAINED GLASS MUSEUM
£3,000 STUDIO VOLTAIRE
£3,000 MOUNT STUART TRUST
£3,000 LIVERPOOL CATHEDRAL
£3,000 LETCHWORTH HERITAGE FOUNDATION
£3,000 LEEDS MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES
£2,650 PECKHAM PLATFORM
£2,500 ARCHAEOPRESS
£2,322 BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING
£2,000 WOLVERHAMPTON SCHOOL OF ART, UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON
£2,000 UNIVERSIDAD DE SAN BUENAVENTURA CALI
£2,000 TOUCHSTONES ROCHDALE
£2,000 THE WOMEN'S ART LIBRARY (GOLDSMITHS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON)
£2,000 PALLANT HOUSE GALLERY
£2,000 MURRAY EDWARDS COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE
£2,000 MCGILL-QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY PRESS
£2,000 LUND HUMPHRIES
£2,000 LUX
£2,000 KUNSTHALLE MANNHEIM
£2,000 DARTINGTON HOUSE TRUST
£1,500 WESTMINSTER ABBEY
£1,500 UK ANTARTIC HERITAGE TRUST
£1,500 MK GALLERY
£1,500 BRITISH ACADEMY
£1,400 THE LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON
£1,328 ROYAL HOLLOWAY, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
£1,000 EIKONES, UNIVERSITäT BASEL
£1,000 UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER
£1,000 KETTLE'S YARD
£600 UNIVERSITY OF YORK
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