Material written, drawn and printed by Barry Flanagan including notes on his thoughts and for his correspondence, sketches for works, samples and proofs for prints, sculpture plans and templates and laser and rubber stamp drawings.
Photographs, negatives, slides, transparencies, scans and print-out images. Barry Flanagan's original files and, where evident, series have been left in tact and categorised, as far as possible, according to function, subject or type.
Includes correspondence and subject files, administrative and business papers. The 'extent' for this series includes sub-series hidden from public view comprising 43 folders.
Volumes containing sketches, notes, artist's statements and draft letters and faxes in pencil and pen relating to personal and professional matters, some of which include related inserts such as business cards. Many have pages torn out and contain inserted loose sheets.
Files containing loose sheets of writings including faxes, draft letters, thoughts and artists statements on professional and personal matters, with related sketches, notes, correspondence, press-cuttings and images.
Barry Flanagan started to print 'funds' in 1969. He used his own printed notes and postal orders numbered and authenticated with a thumb print. They were given in lieu of cash to collaborators and assistants including Charles Harrison, Lucy Lippard, Cheryl Potter, Andrew Dipper and Anthony Stokes. Such notes also featured in works including Thumb Prints, Mirror Prints, Money, 1972. These papers include copies of these notes, with related papers and correspondence.
Sketches, notes and musings in pencil and blue pen.
Pressed dried flower, preserved within celluloid acetate film. Sketch for untitled 1977. Concept sketches for Bollard 1979 and Rowford Process Furniture.