THE PAUL MELLON CENTRE FOR STUDIES IN BRITISH ART

Who they support

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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02075800311

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

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 Value	By 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