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Institutional Partnerships

The Mapping Sculpture project is a partnership between Glasgow University, the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Henry Moore Institute:

Principal Investigator (Mapping Sculpture and Mobilising Mapping) - Professor Alison Yarrington, Institute of Art History, Glasgow University
Co-Investigator (Mapping Sculpture) – Dr. Marjorie Trusted, Senior Curator of Sculpture, Victoria and Albert Museum
Project Partner (Mapping Sculpture) – Dr. Jonathan Wood, Henry Moore Institute
Project Originator, Director and Editor (Mapping Sculpture) and Research Consultant (Mobilising Mapping) - Ann Compton, Institute of Art History, Glasgow University

During the Mapping Sculpture project, additional partnerships were established with the Irish Art Research Centre, Trinity College Dublin and the School of Art and Design, University of Ulster:

Project Partner (Mapping Sculpture) - Dr. Joseph McBrinn, School of Art and Design, University of Ulster
Project Partner (Mapping Sculpture) - Dr. Rachel Moss, TRIARC (Irish Art Research Centre), Trinity College Dublin

The Mapping Team

Primary research team:
Owen Brown (Wales, Bristol, London trade directories, completion of research in Scotland)
Dr. Nancy Ireson (London)
Emma McVeigh (Belfast)
Elmarie Nagle (Dublin)
Dr. Jenny Powell (Birmingham, Stoke, Nottingham, London and Liverpool)
Rhona Warwick (Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen)
Dr. Matthew Withey (Leeds, Manchester and Newcastle)

Additional researchers:
Sylvia Allen (background research on sculptors, volunteer)
Robyne Calvert-Miles (Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, also Administrative Assistant to Mapping Sculpture)
Anna Renz (international exhibitions, work placement)

Data editor:
Dr. Joanna Meacock (Objects, Events, Sources)

Glasgow University provided the overall management of the research programme and the main base for the project team. Staff investigating London were based at the Victoria and Albert Museum and research on the north of England was carried out from the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds. A number of other institutions also provided valuable institutional support for the research assistants: Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery; National Museum of Wales (Amgueddfa Cymru), Cardiff; TRIARC (Irish Art Research Centre), Trinity College Dublin; and University of Ulster.

Project Systems

The project systems for Mapping Sculpture and Mobilising Mapping were developed by:

Matthew Barr, Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute, Glasgow University http://www.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk

Steering Committee Members (past and present):

Ian Anderson (Co-Investigator Mobilising Mapping), Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute, Glasgow University
Professor Graeme Barker FBA (British Academy representative), Department of Archaeology and Director of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge
Matthew Barr, Systems Developer, Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute, Glasgow University
Professor Chris Breward, Head of Research, Victoria and Albert Museum
Ann Compton, Institute of Art History, Glasgow University
Dr. Penelope Curtis, Director, Tate Britain
Oliver Fairclough, Curator, National Museum of Wales
Dr. Andrew Jackson (Mobilising Mapping), Digital Preservation Architect, British Library
Ian Leith, Deputy Chairman and Trustee, Public Monuments and Sculpture Association
Dr. Catherine Moriarty, Design Archives, Brighton University
Dr. Rachel Moss, Irish Art Research Centre, Trinity College Dublin
Professor Nick Pearce, Head of School Culture and Creative Arts, Glasgow University
Professor Seamus Ross, formerly head of the Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute, Glasgow University
Dr. Rupert Shepherd, Horniman Museum
Dr. Evelyn Silber, Honorary Professorial Fellow, Institute of Art History, Glasgow University
Dr. Marjorie Trusted, Senior Curator of Sculpture, Victoria and Albert Museum
Dr. Jonathan Wood, Henry Moore Institute
Professor Alison Yarrington, Institute of Art History, Glasgow University

The project was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and has British Academy Research Project status. Development funding was provided by the Trustees of the Henry Moore Foundation. In 2009 the project received a grant to conduct additional research in Dublin from the Irish Heritage Council and in February 2010, the 'Mobilising 'Mapping Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, 1851-1951'' (Mobilising Mapping) project received a grant under the Arts and Humanities Research Council's Digital Equipment and Database Enhancement for Impact (DEDEFI) Scheme.

Feasibility and Pilot Studies

The Mapping Sculpture project was originated and developed by Ann Compton who also carried out the Feasibility and Pilot Studies in 2005-6.

Special Thanks To:

Brian Aitken, Research Programmer, Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute, Glasgow University – for drawing up the initial system requirements
Professor Chris Breward – for his support and involvement throughout the project and advice on grant applications
Dr. Richard Cork – for providing a reference to the Arts and Humanities Research Council in support of the Research Grant application submitted in 2006
Dr. Penelope Curtis – for her support from the beginning of the project in 2004 and her assistance with the consultation and development phases
Oliver Fairclough – for supporting the research in Wales at the National Museum of Wales
Brendan Flynn – for supporting the research in central England at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
Barry Herbert – for providing a list of sculptors active after 1851 from ‘A Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain, 1660-1851’ by Ingrid Roscoe, Emma Hardy and Greg Sullivan (2009)
Ian Leith, Deputy Chairman and Trustee, Public Monuments and Sculpture Association - for his support and involvement throughout the project and advice on grant applications
Tim Llewellyn – for supporting the project from its earliest stages and throughout its development
Professor Kerstin Mey, University for the Creative Arts, Farnham (formerly University of Ulster) – for facilitating and supporting the research on Belfast
Emmanuel Minne – for making available his research on membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors
Dr. Catherine Moriarty, Design Archives, Brighton University – for her support and involvement throughout the project and advice on grant applications
Dr. Paula Murphy, University College Dublin – for supporting the project meeting in Dublin, March 2007
Fiona Pearson – for arranging the loan of the Scottish Sculpture Archive to Glasgow University
Duncan Robinson – for providing a reference to the British Academy in support of the application for Academy Research Project status in 2007
Dr. Brendan Rooney – for supporting the research in Dublin
Dr. Rupert Shepherd, Horniman Museum – for his support and involvement throughout the project and advice on grant applications, particularly on the project systems and technical appendix
Dr. Angela Summerfield – for providing information about the Institute of British Sculptors
Dr. Gillian Whiteley – for allowing information from her manuscript ‘Directory of sculptors working and exhibiting in Britain in the 1950s’ to be quoted in the database

Project Advisors and Supporters:

Brian Allen, Director, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
Dr. Alan Borg, UK National Inventory of War Memorials
John Bradley, Kings’ College London
Peter Cherry, Trinity College Dublin
Sarah Crellin, independent art historian
Jo Darke (1939-2010), chief executive of the Public Monuments and Sculpture Association
Katherine Eustace, Editor, Sculpture Journal
Adrian Glew, Tate
Andrew Greg, National Inventory Research Project, Institute of Art History, Glasgow University
Emma Hardy, joint author of ‘A Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain, 1660-1851’ by Ingrid Roscoe, Emma Hardy and Greg Sullivan (2009)
Ian Henghes, HistoryWorld Ltd., Didition
Dr. Valerie Holman, independent art historian
Nigel Llewellyn, Tate
Philip McEvansoneya, Trinity College Dublin
Edward Morris, Chairman of the editorial board for the National Recording Project series ‘Public Sculpture of Britain’, published by Liverpool University Press
Jinty Nelson, Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England, Kings’ College London
Benedict Read, University of Leeds
Ingrid Roscoe, editor of ‘A Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain, 1660-1851’ by Ingrid Roscoe, Emma Hardy and Greg Sullivan (2009)
John Sankey, independent art historian
Jacob Simon, National Portrait Gallery
Joanna Soden, Royal Scottish Academy
Andrew Stephenson, School of Architecture and the Visual Arts, University of East London
MaryAnne Stevens, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Greg Sullivan, joint author of ‘A Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain, 1660-1851’ by Ingrid Roscoe, Emma Hardy and Greg Sullivan (2009)
Barbara Thompson, Witt Library, Courtauld Institute of Art
John Turpin, art historian
Helen Valentine, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Dennis Wardleworth, independent art historian
Philip Ward-Jackson, independent art historian
Adam Waterton, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Adam White, Leeds City Art Gallery, Chairman of the project to revise Rupert Gunnis’s ‘Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851’
Glenys Wild, formerly of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery

Additional Acknowledgements

The project is grateful to the staff of the numerous libraries and archives used during the research programme. These include the local history libraries and record offices, art galleries and art schools in: Aberdeen, Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Conwy, Dublin, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham, Stoke-on-Trent, and Swansea.