Since 2011 the Ampersand Foundation has supported a variety of visual art projects across the United Kingdom, including exhibitions, acquisitions of works and artists’ commissions.
Comprehensive list of grants allocated:
2024
Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, ‘Soft Impressions’ exhibition by Helen Cammock, Ingrid Pollard & Camara Taylor
Graves Gallery, Sheffield, Looking Forward (five-year project)
Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge & Fruitmarket, Edinburgh, ‘Zvakazarurwa/Revelations’ exhibition by Portia Zvavahera
Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, ‘Barbara Steveni: I Find Myself’ exhibition
Mostyn, Llandudno, ‘Roda Viva’ , Vanessa da Silva
Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, Contribution towards ‘Funds for the Future’
National Gallery, London, Articulation Prize
Studio Voltaire, London, Production Residency Programme
Whitechapel Gallery, London, Candice Lin commission
2023
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, ‘To Those Sitting in Darkness’ by Pio Abad
British School at Rome, Rome, three-month artist fellowship
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, ‘Waiting for the Barbarians’ outdoor installation by Glenn Ligon
Glasgow International, Glasgow, Glasgow International Gathering programming
Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast, new archive & library
Graves Gallery, Sheffield, Looking Forward (five-year project)
Hundred Heroines, Nailsworth, ‘The Feminist Project for Rural Arts’
Ikon, Birmingham, National Treasures: Artemisia in Birmingham, Jesse Jones: ‘Mirror Martyr Mirror Moon’
National Gallery, London, Articulation Prize
National Gallery, London, Framing Acquisitions Fund
Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, Contribution towards ‘Funds for the Future’
Peer, London, ‘Outfits’ by Iris Touliatou
Photoworks / Ampersand Fellowship
South London Gallery, London, ‘Acts of Resistance: Photography, Feminisms and the Art of Protest’ (public programme)
Spike Island and Camden Art Centre, Donald Locke solo exhibition
Studio Voltaire, London, Production Residency Programme, ‘Floating Sea Palace’ by Lap-See Lam
The Association for Art History, London, Art History Festival 2023
The Line, London, ‘Discosailing’ by Rasheed Araeen
Warwick Arts Centre, Warwick, ‘Phantom Sculpture’
2022
Firstsite, Colchester, ‘BIG WOMEN’ exhibition curated by Sarah Lucas
Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea, Group exhibition: ‘Receiver’
Graves Gallery, Sheffield, Looking Forward (five-year project)
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, Bridget Riley ‘Drawings: From the Artist’s Studio’, exhibition
Holburne Museum, Bath, ‘Dipping below a waxing moon, the dance claims us for release’ Alberta Whittle exhibition
Hundred Heroines, Gloucester, Dorothy Wilding exhibition
Photoworks / Ampersand Fellowship
Royal Academy of Arts, Acquisition of a portrait by Catherine Opie
Studio Voltaire, London, new film commission ‘Ungentle’
The Association for Art History, London, Art History Festival 2022
2021
Art UK, ‘Tagger - Unlocking the Nation’s Art’
The Courtauld, London, ‘Collaborate’ (Jeremy Deller and The Courtauld’s bespoke Young People's project)
The Common Guild, Glasgow, ‘Anywhere in the Universe’ exhibition
Graves Gallery, Sheffield, Looking Forward (five-year project)
National Gallery, London, Framing Acquisitions Fund
National Museums of Wales, Cardiff, Demystifying acquisitions - Acquisition of Chris Ofili’s North Wales series prints
The Roche Court Educational Trust, Leeds and Wakefield, ARTiculation Prize (Leeds)
University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Judd/Hume Prize
2020
Artangel, London, Oscar Murillo’s ‘Frequencies’ installation
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, Cataloguing the photographic archives of Helen Muspratt
Duchamp's Socks, an online magazine
Firstsite, Michael Landy’s ‘Welcome to Essex’ exhibition
Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh & Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, Howardena Pindell: A New Language exhibition
Graves Gallery, Sheffield, Looking Forward (five-year project)
Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, B.O.S.S. commission at FACT
Manchester Art Gallery, Derek Jarman: PROTEST! exhibition
National Gallery, London, Framing Acquisitions Fund
Nottingham Contemporary, Assemble + Schools of Tomorrow: The Place We Imagine exhibition
Photoworks / Ampersand Fellowship
Smarthistory in partnership with Art History in Schools, ‘Seeing Britain’, production of artist videos
Tate, UK, Turner bursaries
University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Judd/Hume Prize
Warwick Art Centre (University of Warwick), ‘Reading Middlemarch’ exhibition
Wirksworth Arts Festival, ‘Performing the Festival’
2019
Art UK, UK, developing Curations, an online curation tool
Art Fund, UK, Derek Jarman’s Prospect Cottage
BALTIC, Gateshead, Judy Chicago exhibition
British School at Rome, Rome, artist fellowships
DIA:, United States, Mel Bochner and Barry Le Va exhibitions
Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast, building a collection of art related to the “Troubles” in Northern Ireland
National Gallery, London, Framing Acquisitions Fund
Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, ‘Still Undead: Popular Culture in Britain Beyond the Bauhaus ‘ exhibition
The Roche Court Educational Trust, Salisbury, ARTiculation Prize (Cornwall)
University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Judd/Hume Prize
2018
Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham, Homage to the Bauhaus exhibition
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, Haroon Mirza and The Aerodrome exhibitions
MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, City Club project
Photoworks, Brighton, Brighton Photo Biennial
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Monster Chetwynd exhibition
Smarthistory, production of 6 online art history video resources
University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Judd/Hume Prize
2017
National Gallery, London, Framing Acquisitions Fund
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Susan Philipsz exhibition
2016
Art Licks, Yorkshire, ‘On the heights’ exhibition
CAST, Cornwall, Groundwork programme of activity
Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Mark Wallinger exhibition
Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, Lara Favaretto’s commission for the 2016 edition of the Biennial
National Gallery, London, Framing Acquisitions Fund
National Portrait Gallery, London, Akram Zaatari exhibition
Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, Simon Starling exhibition
Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, Lara Favaretto’s new commission ‘Thinking Head’
Primary/TG, Nottingham, production of six new performances by Remko Scha, Jan Vorisek, Timothee Calame, Guillaume Pilet, William Hunt, and Sophie Jung.
Serpentine Gallery, London, Jimmie Durham exhibition
South London Gallery, London, a new permanent public garden designed by Gabriel Orozco
Studio Voltaire, London, La Escuela del Sur, new commission by Sol Calero
2015
ArtAngel, London, Jose Damasceno’s site-specific project PLOT at Holborn Public Library
The Art Fund, UK, the Moving Image Fund for Museums
Backlit, Nottingham, Simon Starling exhibition
Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, Sun Ra (1914-1993): The Cosmo Man. (Alien Encounters) exhibition
Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, Rights of Nature: Art & Ecology in the Americas exhibition
PEER, London, new Deputy Director post
Turner Contemporary, Margate, two installations in the Sunley Gallery by Carlos Amorales and Pedro Reyes
2014
Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, Danh Vo exhibition
Open School East, London, contributed towards Open School East’s second year programme.
Tate, UK, acquisition of Mathias Poledna’s Imitation of Life (2013) and works by John Gerrard, David Austen and Abraham Cruzvillegas in memory of Michael Stanley.
2013
Gasworks, London, renovation of their building and artist studio spaces
Whitechapel Gallery, London, Karl Blossfeldt exhibition
2012
Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, Documenting Cadere, 1972-1978 exhibition
The National Gallery, London, Richard Hamilton: The Late Works exhibition
PEER, London, Stephen Cripps and William Hunt exhibition
Tate, UK, refurbishment of the Upper Clore Stores including new racks and shelves for the Tate Photography Cool Store Project