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.
Correspondence and related administrative papers filed by type and subject, possibly retrospectively in 2009 when the archive was brought together and bequeathed to the Estate of Barry Flanagan, arranged alphabetically.
Loose personal and professional correspondence, some of which was originally found enclosed in books and catalogues in the artist's library, organised chronologically.
Files of the correspondence, notes and related administrative papers of various assistants of Barry Flanagan, some of which were maintained by the assistants and some by Flanagan himself.
Correspondence regarding the Picture Loan Scheme, the 'Jesus College Sculpture Exhibition', Jesus College, Cambridge (1996) and the Jesus College Quincentenary Print Scheme, with related papers.