The Abbey Harris Mural Fund makes grants to artists to create semi-permanent or permanent public murals or site specific works on walls, in any medium, in the United Kingdom.
Funding of up to £7000 is available for an artist or organisation producing a public mural in the UK.
The Abbey Harris Mural Fund was established in 1926 to make grants to artists producing murals and work on walls in the UK, with a tradition of supporting serious and ambitious work. Since then, the Trustees of the Fund, who are all artists themselves, have been committed to funding high quality, artistically rigorous public art.
Next round of applications opens 2027.
(Image: River Lea, by mural artist Dominika Karc, London E9, 2024)
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Artists and organisations based in the UK are eligible to apply.
A mural is understood to include work on walls, floors, ceilings
In a UK site accessible to the general public
Semi-permanent/permanent duration (min 3 months)
Any medium will be considered
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Your proposal should include:
Description of the project
Site permission letter
Lead Artist’s CV
Budget
10 images
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The Abbey Harris Mural Fund archive is held at the Royal Academy of Arts. Contact megan.watkins@abbey.org.uk for archive enquiries.
Chair: Eddie Peake
Trustees: Sacha Craddock, Vanessa Jackson, Danny Rolph, Bernice Donszelmann
Administrator: Megan Watkins
Dominika Karc, Hackney Wick 2024
Adam Shield, The Showroom, 2021-2022
David Tremlett, Ikon Gallery, 2013
Rose Finn-Kelcey, St Paul's Church Bow Common, 2004
Heavenly Bodies, Edward Bawden, Physics Building, Hull University, 1964
Katharina Grosse, Birmingham Central Library, 2003
Spencer Finch, Evening Star, Pallant House, 2010
Milton Keynes Gallery, City Club, temporary facade, 2018
Lothar Goetz, The Russell Chantry, 2016
Dave Binnington and Desmond Rochfort, “Office Workers” 1976-77, Royal Oak, Westway
The EA Abbey Memorial Trust Fund for Mural Painting in Great Britain & The E Vincent Harris Fund for Mural Decoration