ARTES is delighted to announce the recipients of the 2025 ARTES/CEEH PhD Scholarships:
Lauren Mahany, PhD Candidate in the School of History of Art, University of Edinburgh.
Lauren’s research examines the work of the Catalonian Orientalist and costumbrismo painter Antonio Fabrés (1854-1938) within the context of Spain’s fin-de-siècle identity crisis and its renewed colonial ambitions in North Africa. With her ARTES/CEEH award Lauren intends to analyse and contextualise the works of Fabrés by exploring primary and secondary archival sources housed in Barcelona (Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya), Rome (Real Academia de España en Roma) and Mexico City (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and the San Carlos Museum). The art of Fabrés will be approached from both a new, theoretical perspective and within broader cultural contexts, engaging with postcolonial, and identity theories, including gender, race, sexuality, transcultural exchanges and dualities, while recognizing Spain’s paradoxical position in the Western discourse of ‘Orientalism’.
Juan A. González Delgado, PhD Student in Art History, University of Seville.
Juan’s research examines the Spanish Crown’s military engineers and the construction process of fortifications in the Viceroyalty of Peru in the Bourbon Period. With his ARTES/CEEH award Juan intends to expand the scope of his research through an analysis of how these fortifications were viewed by English professionals between 1700 and 1821, using documentation and plans present in the archives and libraries of institutions in the United Kingdom. In this project, a major objective will be to understand the implications for the British Crown of these Bourbon fortifications, seeing these works as part of a global process with impacts that stretched from the big empires of day to the inhabitants of a small villages in the interior of South America, and thereby establishing these fortifications as architecture of power and symbols of empire.
Background to the awards
Thanks to the generous support of CEEH (Centro de Estudios Europa Hispánica), ARTES awards two scholarships each year to PhD students and post-doctoral scholars working on Spanish visual culture before 1900. One scholarship is awarded to a student registered for a full- or part-time doctoral degree at a UK university and is intended to contribute towards the costs of tuition, living costs and/or research. A second is awarded to doctoral students and post-doctoral scholars who are registered for study at a university in Spain and wish to undertake research in the UK.
Further information on the ARTES /CEEH awards, including past winners, can be found at:
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