John Fleming Travel Award

The John Fleming Travel Award is open to all undergraduate and postgraduate students studying art, art history or architecture. The aim of the award is to encourage a better understanding and exploration of the arts from around the world. The Award is to enable students to travel as a means of assisting or furthering their research.

John Fleming Travel Award 2008

The John Fleming Travel Award is sponsored by Laurence King Publishing who offer this award of £2000 annually in memory of the art historian John Fleming, co-author with Hugh Honour, of the book, A World History of Art.

Students wishing to apply for this award must be currently enrolled in UK universities, and must still be enrolled at the time of travel.

Winner of the 2008 John Fleming Travel Award
The AAH is please to announce that the winner of the 2008 award is Francois Tainturier, SOAS for her application in support of her research on The Burmese Art of Making Cities: Founding and Building Mandaly (1857-1885). Francois intends to travel to Burma to undertake a second fieldtrip in October-November 2008 to focus on the survey and mapping component of research.

For further information about the award, please contact admin@aah.org.uk.  

Reports and Feedback
A panel will meet to assess and discuss the applications within four weeks of the deadline. If  you have not heard from us before 30 March 2008 please assume that your application was unsucessful. We hope to be able to provide online examples of reports and feedback from students who have benefited from the John Fleming Travel Award in the near future.

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