2025 Art History Resident

The Association for Art History and the Ampersand Foundation are delighted to announce that Victoria Horne, Assistant Professor of Art History at the Northumbria School of Design, Arts and Creative Industries, Northumbria University, has been awarded our fifth Art History Residency.
The residency offers a researcher the opportunity for concentrated time to further their work at Wigwell Lodge in the beautiful Derbyshire countryside. It will run from October 2025 to January 2026.
Victoria’s research during the residency will focus on Mainie Jellett and her pivotal role in the Irish Modernist movement. This project examines how three concurrent revolutions – national, feminist, aesthetic – overlapped in the life of Jellett and her wider circle. Victoria commented: “I’m delighted to have the chance to spend some time quietly thinking about a project on Irish women artists, which charts a new direction in my research. And I’m looking forward to stomping about the Derbyshire countryside and seeing a new part of the world I’m not familiar with. I’m very grateful to the AAH and the Ampersand Foundation for the lovely opportunity.”
Gregory Perry, CEO of the Association for Art History notes that: “Victoria’s research was the unanimous choice for this year’s very competitive residency award, with the panel excited that the residency provides an opportunity for her to take a compelling critical approach to original research into the Irish Modernist movement from a feminist perspective. The Association is very grateful to the Ampersand Foundation for helping us to facilitate original art historical research and assist scholarship in this way.”
Victoria will be invited to give an AAH lecture on completion of the residency.

Image credit: Victoria Horne, and Mainie Jellett, The Artist’s Vision book cover (detail).