Dr Mor is one of four recipients of theBritish Academy Early Career Researcher Network Seed Fund Awards 2025-26 in the East of England cluster for his project, 'Curating Grey Literature: An Iconoclastic Reappraisal of the British Art Archives via Hidden Actors'.
This project interweaves curatorial practice and academic research to challenge the entrenched narrative centred on canonical “masters” in British art history. Using the networks surrounding Henry Moore (1898–1986) as an analytical framework—rather than simply a biographical subject—it reconstructs this narrative by foregrounding overlooked materials produced by the often-invisible collaborators who shaped both Moore’s practice and the wider trajectory of modern British art. In doing so, it reframes art-historical inquiry through the agency of hidden actors and establishes a transferable model at the intersection of curating and scholarship.
Treating research itself as a curatorial act, the project assembles non-artistic archival fragments—technical diagrams, architectural drawings, foundry records, and board minutes—generated by peripheral figures. By mobilising these neglected forms of “grey literature,” it transforms disregarded archival remnants into dialogical, iconoclastic documents that reveal the collective, material, and institutional foundations of British modernism. Ultimately, it unites academic and curatorial methods within a coherent framework.