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.
Files on the work of Barry Flanagan compiled retrospectively in the late 1980s and and then added to and annotated until 1998. Records of works include photographs, many of which date back from the 1960s and 1970s and were originally accumulated by Rowan Gallery, London, UK until 1976, and then by Waddington Galleries, London, UK, sheets of typescript information from Waddington Galleries computer system giving title, date, editions, status, provenance, dimensions, medium, installation shots, where it was exhibited and where it is referenced in publications, Waddington Galleries numbers, gallery computer systems numbers and related papers. Each file contains notes regarding the entry of information onto the TMS database compiled by employees of Flanagan in 2009 [August 2009]. Date range in title covers the dates of works featured, date range of file covers any additions and annotations made thereafter.
Files on the drawings, etchings, lino and wood cuts of Barry Flanagan compiled retrospectively in the late 1980s and then added to until 1992. Records for works include sheets of typescript information from the Tate Gallery, London, UK and Waddington Galleries, London catalogues giving title, date, editions, status, provenance, dimensions, medium, a photograph, photocopies of photographs, installation shots, where it was exhibited and where it is referenced in publications, gallery numbers, gallery computer systems numbers and related papers.
Records of work held at, or sold by, the Galerie Durand-Dessert, Paris, France printed from the gallery computer system and acquired by Gabriela Salgado, assistant to Barry Flanagan, in 1998 as part of her efforts to accumulate and collate information on Flanagan's work.
Includes photographs by David Ward and Chris Davies, installation shot of new metal piece, 1978 at the Ulster Museum, Belfast, UK and stock book style records.