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.
Files of correspondence and related papers on solo and group shows, commissions, installations, loans, publications, media appearances and related professional projects.
In 1975 Barry Flanagan established Rowford Process as a trading company in order to obtain working materials at discount prices. Three years later Flanagan, in collaboration with Anthony Stokes and the Cathedra Group, began designing and manufacturing furniture using the company name. These records document this later project.
Volumes compiled by Barry Flanagan and his assistants, partially in collaboration with Rowan Gallery, London, UK and Waddington Galleries, London, UK as a record of work. Some of the early volumes were maintained in duplicate by Barry Flanagan and Waddington Galleries. They were amalgamated into a single series and then, in the late 1980s, partially reorganised. Some earlier records were integrated into larger volumes arranged by medium.
Files compiled retrospectively by assistants to Barry Flanagan, in the period 1987 - 1998, using printed typescript information from Waddington Galleries, London, UK, the Tate Gallery, London, UK and the Galerie Durand Dessert, Paris, France gallery computer systems, and subsequently added to.
Papers accumulated retrospectively which gather together correspondence, lists of work and related notes pertaining to Barry Flanagan and his assistants' efforts to manage and trace his works.
Print-outs from Waddington Galleries, London, UK gallery computer system made in 2009, possibly gathered by Louise Kelly and Eivlin Roden, assistants to Barry Flanagan, as part of the TMS database project.
Inventories and lists of works by Barry Flanagan and works owned by Flanagan. Barry Flanagan maintained his own personal art collection, in addition to a collection under the name of Rowford Process from 2006.
