Arts and Humanities Research Council Fellowship in the Creative and Performing Arts
Established in April 2005, the Arts and Humanities Research Council is a Non-Departmental Public body. The Council evolved from the Arts and Humanities Research Board, which was founded in 1998, and its Fellowships in the Creative and Performing Arts were set up at the outset to increase capacity in the area of practice-led research.
Jeremy Millar
Artist, writer and curator Jeremy Millar was awarded an Arts and Humanities Research Council Fellowship in the Creative and Performing Arts in September 2007. The three-year interdisciplinary project, which involved a close collaboration with the Pitt Rivers Museum and the Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Oxford, allowed Millar to explore the work of the American anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson, who travelled to Bali in the 1930s in order to undertake fieldwork on the Balinese ‘character’.
Millar has exhibited widely with solo shows at Bloomberg Space, London, Metropole Galleries, Folkestone, Tramway, Glasgow, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, CCA, Vilnius and Rooseum, Malmo. Following his landmark exhibition The Institute of Cultural Anxiety - Works from the Collection at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London in 1994, Millar became Programme Organiser at The Photographers’ Gallery, London. In 2000 he was co-curator (with Barbara London) of escape at media_city Seoul and he was the inaugural Director of the Brighton Photo Biennial 2003. He has been on the panel of many awards including the Spectrum Photography Prize, Hannover (1995), Paul Hamlyn Foundation Awards to Artists (2001) and the Citigroup Photography Prize (2004). He is the recipient of fellowships from NESTA and the Arts Foundation and has published over eighty texts in a number of international publications and books.
Lucy Kimbell
Artist, writer and technology consultant Lucy Kimbell was awarded an Arts and Humanities Research Board Fellowship in the Creative and Performing Arts in September 2003. The two-year interdisciplinary project I measure therefore I am allowed Kimbell to continue and develop her innovative research into personal measurement and evaluation.
With a first degree in engineering design from the University of Warwick, Kimbell later took an MA in digital arts at Middlesex University. In addition to her art practice, she has worked in a number of roles, including leading design teams on software projects, assisting a management consultancy create opportunities for people to engage critically with ideas about innovation, and as a BBC radio journalist.
Organised by the Ruskin School of Drawing & Fine Art and supported by funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council.