Arts and Humanities Research Council award Tate major research grant
I am delighted to announce that the AHRC has awarded Tate a research grant of over £450,000 for the project, ‘The Sublime Object: Nature, Art and Language’, under the strategic programme, ‘Landscape and Environment’. From an initial entry round of 127 applications Tate application was one of only 12 institutions to receive a research grant. Tate applied directly for the grant as an Independent Research Organisation, and was the only institution in the museum sector to receive a grant from the programme.
The research project, which will be led by Tate Britain, involves partnerships with academics from the Cambridge University, the University of East Anglia and the London Consortium (of which Tate is a member). Tate will also partner the Cape Farewell project, organised by artist David Buckland, which will include artist-based research in the Arctic.
The project will be led by Tate curators Richard Humphreys and Alison Smith and will draw together art historians, artists, academics, curators, educators, students, and the public, to debate and research the concept and practice of the sublime in the visual arts and broader culture from the eighteenth century to the present day. Using Tate’s unrivalled collection of landscape art, the project will aim to produce a range of published research, events and education programmes which collectively extend our understanding of the sublime in historical and contemporary art and culture. This will be made available in Tate displays, articles, a dedicated Tate website - ‘Tate Sublime’ – and education workshops.
I'd like to congratulate Martin Postle, who conceived and led the application, together with Richard Humphreys and Alison Smith, who will be the principal Tate investigators on the project. I would also like to thank Caroline Collier, Jemima Rellie, Vicky Walsh and Lesley Williams for their invaluable contributions in ensuring the success of this application, as well as our academic and artistic partners, Dr Denise Riley, Dr Peter de Bolla, Professor Steven Connor, David Buckland and Greg Hilty.
Stephen Deuchar, Director
Directors Office Tate Britain
15 November 2006
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