Grant funded projects

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.

Recently, the Henry Moore Foundation awarded more than £60,000 of funding to directly assist 40 artists in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Each week will be focusing on four of those artists and celebrating the work that they do.

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.

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.