University of Edinburgh

The Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Trust offers two bursaries each year to students on the five-year Fine Art programme in Edinburgh, a programme that is half studio based and half devoted to academic history and theory, taught jointly by the University Of Edinburgh and Edinburgh College of Art.

The degree has been running for 60 years. It has produced many distinguished artists, art historians and arts administrators (John Leighton, Director-General of the National Galleries of Scotland; Ian Howard and Andrew Patrizio, respectively Principal and Research Director, Edinburgh College of Art; Matthew Gale, Senior Curator, Tate Modern, to name but a few).  The bursaries will support travel to view specific exhibitions, collections, archives, or buildings, undertaken in the summer vacation between 4th and 5th years, which will greatly enhance the 10,000 word dissertations that students write in their final year, alongside working on their final Degree Shows. 

The two 2010/11 Bursaries have been awarded to Hugo de Verteuil and Kamila Kocialkowska.