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Research Groups

From 2015–2024, BAN supported Research Groups through a dedicated bursary stream. The Research Groups focused on specific areas of British art, and their programmes of activity were developed and led by Network Members and helped form committed, passionate specialist communities.

You can find details on all these Research Groups by clicking on the images below.

A number of Research Groups continue to be active, and you can find contact information for the lead members, should you wish to enquire about joining.

BAN continues to support research and networking through its bursaries. For details of current opportunities, see here.

A group of people looking at archive material around tables in the Tate Britain Reading Rooms

Black British Art Research Group Panchayat workshop, Friday 23 September 2022, Tate Library

an interior, an artist's studio, bare white painted walls, a window to the left, with a branch suspended before it, various furniture crowded together on the floor, a wall of photographic images in colour of landscape scenes pinned up to the right - a large rolled canvas to the rear, leaning against a shelf

A Place-based History of Art

a visibly digitally generated image resembling a dense forest in emphatic colours, the dense tree trunks a deep brown-purple, bright green waves like grass on the ground. In the midst of this, in a middle distance, a female figure in a blue dress wearing a silvered visor, which obscures their face.

British Digital Art

Image of Kate Walker's: Notoriously Anonymous Artistes of 1977, 1977. Five newspaper style cuttings of women artists, with brief provocative biographies are listed below the image of each artist.

Group Work: Contemporary Art and Feminism

An artwork showing a protest scene with people holding placards

Art and the Women’s Movement in the UK 1970–1990

The Ignorant Art Schools

Image of George Chakravarthi's: Olympia, 2003, a man in repose being attended to by another man with a bouquet of flowers

British South-Asian Visual Art Post Cool Britannia

a view through glass into a gallery interior, with four or more figures indistinctly seen crouching or standing - their figures combine with the reflected view of a street with cars, bikes and buildings

Artist-Run Initiatives in Britain

a boldly designed image of two figures embracing, one pale yellow apparently seated and female, the other standing and pale green, in an burnt orange setting

Disability in British Art

screenshot of a Zoom meeting, screens of seven people, six of whom are covering their eyes with their hands, the seventh has their eyes shut - another screen with a small artwork image of a geological cross-section including a skeleton

Art Practices and British Central Eastern European Diaspora

collaged poster image, including a painted artwork with South Asian figures and architecture, a cup of chai in a person's hand, and a hand being painted with henna - lettering to bottom right 'Chai-Shai: Asian British Art'

Chai Shai: Asian British Art

Image of Mary McIntyre's: Aura of Crisis 1998. The photograph shows a ring of empty leather backed chairs arranged in an empty hall.

Northern Irish Art

Image of ​John Michael Wishart's painting: Moths on a Blue Path.

Post-War Painting in Regional Collections

Painting of William Nicol's Quiet showing woman and child

British Genre and Narrative Painting, 1750-1870

Image of sketches made by Sir John Gilbert RA, Sketches and notes made at a Royal Academy Council meeting, 15 May 1877

British Drawings

Painting of Benjamin West's: Katherine Clayton, Lady Howard de Walden 1772

British Art in Historic Houses

A body seen from behind painted in blue and grey with large patches of colour. To its side is the head and shoulders of a person looking through a window and a headless torso wearing a cardigan.

New Dialogues: Art created historically in mental health settings

An Image of Alberta Whittle's: RESET 2020

The Re-Action of Black Performance

Image of Siobhan McLaughlin's mixed material depiction of Landscape in Lockdown

British Landscapes

Image of Donald Rodney's sketch: First of England 1983 . A sketch of a man and woman on a rough crossing is presented next to the original victorian painted depiction.

Race, Empire and the Pre-Raphaelites

Image of Gwen John's self portrait 1902. A woman is wearing a red dress, with a broach at the collar, and is staring straight ahead. Purchased 1942 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/work/N05366

British Women Artists, 1750-1950

Still image from Seo Hye Lee’s artist film titled [sound of subtitles]. The image is split into three identical film frames. Different subtitles are overlaid on each frame. The subtitle on the left reads ‘shaping’, the subtitle on the middle frame reads 'sound of emptiness in the room’, the subtitle on the right reads 'mysterious string music'. In each individual frame, there is a close up of a pair of hands moulding a rotating brown clay clod on the potter’s wheel. All subtitles are white and inside square brackets.

The Art of Captioning

Image of James Thornhill's: A Ceiling and Wall Decoration circa 1715-25, purchased as part of the Oppé Collection with assistance from the National Lottery through the Heritage Lottery Fund 1996 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/work/T08143

British Mural Painting, 1600-1750

Black British Art

close up of a tapestry in deep greens and browns, featuring Christian religious imagery including flowers and a crucified Christ

British Catholic Material Culture 1538-1829

Image of Mark Leckey's: Parade, 2003. A man is silhouetted against a larger photograph of a woman's face.

Working Class British Art

A half length embroidered portrait of a person wearing a leather jacket and a t-shirt with the word 'Dyke' in capital letters on the front. The embroidery is in black and lilac on a cream and red patterned quilt.

Queer British Art

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