The Abbey Harris Mural Fund
The EA Abbey Memorial Trust Fund for Mural Painting in Great Britain & The E Vincent Harris Fund for Mural Decoration (Abbey Harris Mural Fund) makes grants to artists to create semi-permanent or permanent public murals/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 next deadline for proposals will be 10th October 2025.
(Image: River Lea mural 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 (over 6 months)
Any medium will be considered
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For any enquiries or advice on your application please write to megan.watkins@abbey.org.uk.
When you are ready, send the following by email or We Transfer:
i) A letter explaining the project
ii) Plans and sketches/drawings for the proposed work
iii) Images of your/the proposed artist's work
iv) Images of the proposed site
v) A fully budgeted funding request
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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: Bernice Donszelmann
Trustees: Sacha Craddock, Vanessa Jackson, Danny Rolph, Paul Huxley, Eddie Peake
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