New ITP Research Grant 2025 awarded!!
Written by Claire Messenger, Manager, International Training Programme
We are delighted to award an ITP Research Grant 2025 to Joyee Roy, Officer of Documentation & Curation, Victoria Memorial Hall (India, ITP 2011).
Joyee will be using her research grant to publish her research publication ‘The social and moral issues along with vibrant climate of India transformed significantly the British palette of Turner, Blake and Stubbs during the 18th – 19th centuries.’ This English language publication will enable her to share her findings on British art with readers all over the world and raise consciousness about another dimension of British art on Indian themes. Readers will be able to learn more about how the Indian social and moral issues, as well as vibrant climate of India, changed the palette of pioneer British artists of that era.
Joyee has been working at the Victoria Memorial Hall (VMH), Kolkata, India since 2003 as a Documentation & Curatorial Officer. From June 2016 she took on a new role in-charge of the Documentation and Photography Units of VMH. Previously, Joyee worked at the Rabindra Bharati University Museum, Kolkata, as a Trainee Guide cum Cataloguer for 4 years from June 1999 to May 2003. Joyee was also the Nodal Officer of the JATAN database for collection management maintained by Ministry of Culture, the Government of India from 2014 to 2019.
Since 2003, Joyee’s responsibilities have been to look after the total collection of the VMH, involving documentation, accessioning, research, cataloguing, digitization and physical verification. Additional responsibilities include gallery planning, display in the permanent galleries, curating exhibitions, preparation of public materials; and organising several events such as lectures, workshops, and gallery talks related to the collection. Furthermore, Joyee works on educational activities, including organising seminars, workshops, visitor surveys and events for all ages to connect the museum to different communities.
We are delighted to be able to support Joyee this year and look forward to hearing more about the publication of her book and to sharing her final report – and the publication – with our ITP global network.
