Grant funded projects

This spring, the Foundation is delighted to announce that it was able to confirm support for 26 projects from around the world, including the forthcoming exhibitions Senga Nengudi: Topologies at Philadelphia Museum of Art; Grinling Gibbons: Centuries in the Making at Compton Verney; and Emii Alrai: Hunting Traps and Other Ensnarements at Eastside Projects.

In this group of artists, examine Bob Spriggs' kinetic sculptures inspired by and fashioned from magnetic forces, explore race and representation in the north of England from Jade Montserrat's black diasporic perspective, marvel at James Lake's elaborate and sophisticated cardboard sculpture, and see how Nancy Allen combines everyday objects with decorative elements.

Learn more about Nicola Ellis' interests in the systems of value in industrial processes, Rachal Bradley's reflections on bodies interacting with their environments, and how Stuart Whipps interrogates archives to unearth fresh insights into historical events.

Take a closer look at Lindsey Mendick's ceramic storytelling, Louise Barrington's graceful and poetic explorations of space, Madeleine Pledge's use of the language of clothing as a way of discussing the human body, and Nick Gordon's love of materials and instinct for collecting.

This week, learn more about Katie Schwab's research-based practice into underrepresented histories of domestic and civic design, Leo Fitzmaurice's interest in the everyday, Liam Fallon's exploration of queer culture, and Lilah Fowler's interpretations of the intertwining of digital and material worlds.

This week we're highlighting Jasleen Kaur's hybrid objects and ongoing exploration of cultural malleability, Jill McKnight's storytelling through sculpture, Joanne Masding's interest in our relationship with cultural objects, and how Kathryn Ashill's work pursues the theatrical in the everyday.

In this group of artists we look at Emily Hesse's connection to the post-industrial landscape of Middlesborough, Flora Parrott's interest in subterranean experiences, Hetain Patel's use of humour in decoding identity and authenticity, and James Clarkson's fascination with materiality and everyday objects.

This round of artists takes in Becky Beasley's enigmatic works on ambiguities of human experiences, Charlotte Dawson's interest in collecting as a form of 'memory making', David Kefford's subversion of common objects into new sculptural scenarios, and Dominique White's weaving together of Black Subjectivity, Afro-pessimism and nautical myth.

This week we take a closer look at four more artists who received funding from our Artist Award Scheme: discover Anna Berry's delicate paper constructions, Anne Vibeke Mou intricate work with glass, Appau Jnr Boakye-Yiadom's multilayered, performative installations, and Ashley Holmes' exploration of of Black British identity through music.

Learn more about Aaron McPeake's interactive, multi-sensory sculptures, Alberta Whittle,'s reflections on memory, trauma, and the legacy of postcolonial power, Alexander Duncan's sculptures that blur the lines between reality and illusion, and Alex Frost's tongue in cheek look at the contemporary phenomena of 'life on-the-go'.

The Henry Moore Foundation has shown its on-going commitment to the future of sculpture with the announcement of its new Artist Award Scheme. As a response to the pressures brought about by the current Covid-19 pandemic, the Foundation has allocated more than £60,000 of funding and resources to directly assist 40 artists at a time when other sources of income might no longer be available.

This major retrospective exhibition focuses on the final chapter of Louise Bourgeois’s storied career; a period during which the artist forged a body of work that re-articulated many of her lifelong concerns in newly provocative and profoundly enlivening ways, including her exploration of identity, sexuality, family relationships, reparation, and memory.

Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens presents Shahpour Pouyan’s ambitious installation Skyhigh is my place. Designed specifically for the museum, the piece is the culmination of over two years of intense research and development. The exhibition is the first solo presentation by the artist in a Belgian public institution.

Quai d’Auteuil, considered to be one of the most important 'white reliefs' by the pioneering British artist Ben Nicholson (1894-1982) and of immense importance to the development of British Modernism, has been acquired by The Hepworth Wakefield with assistance from the Henry Moore Foundation.

Holt/Smithson Foundation's Scholarly Text Program was conceived to commission and publish new writing on sculpture. Lisa Le Feuvre, Executive Director of the Foundation, explains how this grant helped to commission nine new essays on works by Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson.

The Burrell Collection is the first public UK collection to acquire a work by sculptor Camille Claudel (1864-1943). L’Implorante, a touching, powerful and rare example of Claudel at her most vulnerable, is the museum’s first acquisition in ten years and the first sculpture by a woman in The Collection.

Taking the work of Nancy Holt as a centre point, this exhibition brings together six artists whose work explores ideas of light and language. This is the first time Holt’s work has been seen in conjunction with twenty-first-century artists who have drawn from her legacies.

In the UK’s largest exhibition to date by celebrated South Korean artist Haegue Yang, Tate St Ives bring together new and existing works spanning installation, sculpture, drawing, collage and painting.

This spring, the Foundation is delighted to announce that it was able to confirm support for 26 projects from around the world, including the forthcoming exhibitions Senga Nengudi: Topologies at Philadelphia Museum of Art; Grinling Gibbons: Centuries in the Making at Compton Verney; and Emii Alrai: Hunting Traps and Other Ensnarements at Eastside Projects.