grants previously awarded

Grants awarded in 2024

The Trust had an unprecedented number of very good applications in 2024. We were pleased to be able to make twelve awards in all. Six main awards following an interview, and for the first time six small grants were made without interview.

The main Awards were:

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Pamela Abad

£2,000 for studio time and to develop a series of tapestries.

Kendall Clarke

£2,000 for tuition with a tapestry weaver and for studio rent and time to develop a new body of work.

Sophia Fenlon and Stephanie Rolph (joint application)

£4,000 towards residencies in the Netherlands, including bespoke industrial weaving training at Textiel Lab and a footwear construction training course at Schoenkwartier.

Alice Fox

£3,000 for the development of a new body of flax-centred work, including flax processing, equipment and studio time.

Sven Steinmetz

£4,000 for a research project into the study and replication of a 19th-century seamless woven corset.

Patrick Stratton

£1,000 to purchase a new loom plus studio time.

Small grants without interview were made to:

Sara Brennan £1,000

Studio rent and photography of her work for a catalogue
Production of two pieces of work for a two-person exhibition in North Wales

Shelly Goldsmith £1,000

Filming and editing of a project to document a body of tapestry work revealing the back story to thinking and process

Chantal Allen £600

The purchase of a fan (ondulé) reed and experimental yarns to create a new body of work

Jill Walker £550

The purchase of a large floor scaffolding loom and specialist yarn in order to create larger tapestries and work on multiple warps across the frame

Margaret Jones £750

Studio time

Grants awarded in 2022

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Sasha Belavokaya

£1,000 to attend a weaving course to further develop skills and to purchase yarns.

Jacob Monk

£1,500 for a ‘Kasuri Weaving Workshop’ in Sweden and equipment to finish setting up a second-hand loom.

Alan Oliver

£2,000 to research and experiment using flax and other bast fibres, with a view to creating a collection of table linens.

Pamela Print

£2,000 to attend a natural dyeing workshop and a contribution towards studio time and rent.

Hannah Robson

£2,000 towards paper making and casting workshops and a contribution towards studio rent.

Jan Shelley

£1,000 for yarns and the production of promotional materials for a new range of interior and exhibition pieces.

Sarah Ward

£2,500 for the purchase of a cone to hank winder and a contribution to time in the studio.

Dr Hannah White

£1,000 towards conversion of ideas to CAD, fabric finishing and experimentation.

ALISON MORTON MEMORIAL AWARDS 2022

Daisy Buckle - Residency

Llio James - Residency

Anna Pritchard - Loom

ADDITIONAL Grants awarded in 2022

Rachael Matthews - An Award towards supporting the introduction to weaving she is making to the activities of the East London Textile Arts.

Angela Parker - An Award towards the further research and writing of a comprehensive book about weaving Krokbragd, including its history, and new samples of the technique. To be published.

Jessica Cutler - An Award towards purchase of a loom.

Elizabeth Ballon - An Award towards purchase of a loom.

Grants awarded in 2020

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Susan Basham

£1,500 to buy time to develop a new body of larger work and to purchase yarns.

Hana Brough

£2,500 towards rent for a new studio with space to accommodate students and potential buyers.

Jessica Cutler

£2,200 for studio rent and materials to produce a large body of work.

Daniel Harris

£2,500 towards yarn costs to help develop new work.

Holly Hopper

£2,500 to buy time to develop professional skills to support the community-based textile studio, Life and Loom.

Sue Lawty

£2,000 towards studio time to develop a new body of fine woven tapestries.

Deborah White

£1,300 for cordage and repair and cleaning of Jacquard machines towards the restoration of two early nineteenth century Jacquard linen looms.

Irene Evison

£500 towards the creation of woven tapestries through her role as artist on the expedition In the Footsteps of Matthiesson’s Snow Leopard to Nepal.

Grants awarded in 2018

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Alastair Duncan

£2,500 to continue the development of a body of work combining metal and barb wire and interactive audio elements within the tapestry.

Llio James

£2,700 to convert her current AVL Dobby Loom to a Compu Dobby.
www.lliojames.com

Rachel Johnston

£1,000 to fund materials to develop a new body of work for exhibition.

Alison Mitchel

£3,000 to fund an interpreter to complete her research for a book on the tsumugi silk ikat industry on the small island of Kumejima off the coast of Japan.

Rita Parniczky

£1,700 to visit and receive mentoring from Sheila Hicks who is currently exhibiting at the Centre Pomdidou is Paris and help towrads studio rent.

Christine Sawyer

£500 to develop a new body of tapestry weaving based around her strong environmental interests in global warming.

Tim Parry-Williams

£1,000 towards studio rental to develop hand woven linen hand towels and to research and establish links with the linen industry in Northern Ireland.

Grants awarded in 2016

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Cos Ahmet

£1,275 for materials, yarn and promotional material for a new body of work.

Louise R Anderson

£3,000 contribution towards the purchase of a new loom.

Bonnie Kirkwood

£5,000 contribution towards the purchase of a new loom.

Christine Porath

£1,875 towards attending a master class in weave design.

Katherine Swales

£764 for materials and studio rent.

Louise Tucker

£500 for purchase of yarn for a research and development project exploring light and pattern.

Rezia Wahid

£1,800 for research and development, materials and yarn to delevop a new body of work.

Sally Weatherill

£2,190 for purchase of a Louet Megado mechanical dobby loom.

Grants awarded in 2014

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Laura Adburgham

£2,000 contribution towards the purchase of a computerised dobby loom.

Louise Martin

£1,500 for a research and study trip to Iceland.

Philip Sanderson

£1,300 for studio time to develop new work.

Stacie Sheeran

£1,000 to purchase experimental yarns.

Christine Sawyer

£550 for promotional material and to attend a Touring Exhibition Group marketplace.

Julieann Worrall Hood

£1,650 for studio rent for eleven months.

Grants awarded in 2012

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Louise Renae Anderson

£3,000 to contribute towards her research project in weaving and fashion.

Sara Brennan

£2,600 to provide time to develop a new body of work, materials and studio rent.

Jennie Parry

£580 to fund the purchase of a 3 level takadai.
www.jennieparry.co.uk

Katie Russell

£650 to attend a weaving course and buy yarns.

Daisy Williamson

£650 to attend some weaving workshops.

Grants awarded in 2010

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Jane Brunning

£1,315 to fund a sketch and stitch workshop at West Dean and provide time to weave.

Linda Green

£2,000 to 'buy time' to explore a new project on plant forms and weave a new body of work.

Shelly Goldsmith

£2,000 to fund a trip to the Guislain Museum in Ghent and provide time to weave a new body of tapestry work.

Bonnie Kirkwood

£3,000 to contribute towards the rental of a studio.
www.bonniekirkwood.com

Christine Sawyer

£2,000 to 'buy time' to create a new body of work.

Grants awarded in 2008

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Jo Barker

£1,500 as a contribution towards costs of producing a catalogue to accompany solo exhibition.

Lucy Brown

£1,000 for materials for developing a new body of work for a solo exhibition.

Jilly Edwards

£2,000 for a sabbatical to reassess creative nature of her work.

Tim Parry-Williams

£3,400 towards a 24 shaft NC Harris loom plus fittings and reeds.

Jacy Wall

£2,000 to research and develop theme of 'mending' to start new body of tapestry work.
www.jacywall.co.uk

Diedre Wood

£2,500 for purchase of materials and period of experimental development into weaving large woven circles from strips.

grants awarded in 2006

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Jo Barker

£2,880 to visit Wissa Wassef Tapestry School and Coptic Museum in Egypt, buy computer and materials and attend two screen printing courses.

Helen Foroughi

£2,500 for time to experiment and develop work and to buy materials.

Hillu Liebelt

£3,500 for a research trip to Japan.
www.hilluliebelt.com

grants awarded in 2004

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Jan Bowman

£1,800 for materials and lighting component costs for spatial divides.
www.jbowmandesigns.co.uk

Fiona Hutchinson

£3,000 for studio rental, materials, photography/documentation and living expenses whilst weaving piece for exhibition.

Susan Mowatt

£2,400 for studio rental and childcare for 12 weeks to weave piece for exhibition in Budapest.

Laura Thomas

£4,000 towards a computer operated loom to develop work.

grants awarded in 2002

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Carol Dunbar

£4,500 for time to research and develop new work.

Heidi Lichterman

£3,750 for a three month sabbatical for research and experimentation.

Michelle McGarvey

£1,145 for research and development and documentation.

Anne Satow

£2,000 for time to reassess and develop new work.

grants awarded from 1991 to 2000

A Legacy in Weaving gives an account of the weavers who received grants from 1991 to 2000. It is available for purchase. Details can be found on the resources page.