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Personal papers of Stuart Brisley

[c.1953–2007]

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Items chosen from this collection for digitisation include project files and a notebook kept by the artist which document important performances, installations, exhibitions and sound works, and a series of photographic boards created during Stuart Brisley's time as Community Artist with the Artist Project Peterlee. There is also an important piece of source material relating to the work, 'A study for 'Seminal Sequences'', 1995-1996, by Stuart Brisley. This work is currently in the British Museum.

Details of the remainder of the collection can be found on the Archive catalogue.

Collection Owner
Stuart Brisley born 1933
Collection
Tate Archive
Acquisition
All papers (except the Peterlee project) presented to Tate Archive by Stuart Brisley, November 2011. [The boards relating to the Peterlee project was relocated from the APG archives (TGA 20045), date of entry 2004 to Stuart Brisley's archives (TGA 201114), date of entry 2013.]
Reference
TGA 201114

137 objects in this collection

  • Personal papers of Stuart Brisley

    137 Objects

    • Project files and writings

      91 Objects

    • Artist Project Peterlee

      46 Objects

Title
Personal papers of Stuart Brisley
Date
[c.1953–2007]
Description
Items chosen from this collection for digitisation include project files and a notebook kept by the artist which document important performances, installations, exhibitions and sound works, and a series of photographic boards created during Stuart Brisley's time as Community Artist with the Artist Project Peterlee. There is also an important piece of source material relating to the work, 'A study for 'Seminal Sequences'', 1995-1996, by Stuart Brisley. This work is currently in the British Museum.

Details of the remainder of the collection can be found on the Archive catalogue.
Reference
TGA 201114

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Handwritten notes outlining the performance, ‘White Meal’, by Stuart Brisley

Stuart Brisley
1967
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Proposal for the ‘Leverkusen Project’, by Stuart Brisley

Stuart Brisley
23 October 1968
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Definition statement by Stuart Brisley for the ‘100 Toys’ exhibition

Stuart Brisley
1969
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Letter from Jasia Reichardt to Stuart Brisley

Stuart Brisley
1969
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Letter from Valmai Ward, ‘100 Toys’ Secretary, Welsh Arts Council Museum, Cardiff, to Stuart Brisley

Stuart Brisley
13 November 1968
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Annotated typed document about artists’ unions

Stuart Brisley
date not known
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Typed document entitled, ‘Play Orbit: Information Re: Copyright/Registered Design/Patents’

Stuart Brisley
[c.1969]
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Typed document entitled, ‘A Celebration for Institutional Consumption’

Stuart Brisley
[c.1970]
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Typed document entitled, ‘A Celebration for Institutional Consumption’

Stuart Brisley
[c.1970]
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Typed document entitled, ‘A Celebration for Institutional Consumption: Menu (for 12 people)’

Stuart Brisley
[c.1970]
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Typed document entitled, ‘To Michael Kustow, Celebration for Institutional Consumption, proposal for I.C.A., Stuart Brisley’

Stuart Brisley
[c.1970]
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Typed document outlining the performance, ‘Celebration for Institutional Consumption’

Stuart Brisley
[c.1970]
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Typed document outlining the performance, ‘Celebration for Institutional Consumption’

Stuart Brisley
[c.1970]
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Handwritten menu and recipes for the performance, ‘A Celebration for Institutional Consumption’

Stuart Brisley
[c.1970]
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Typed document entitled, ‘Subject: ZL 65 63 95 C’

Stuart Brisley
1972
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Typed document outlining the performance, ‘You Know it Makes Sense’

Stuart Brisley
[c.1972]
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Handwritten proposal for the performance, ‘10 Days’, entitled, ‘Project Gallery Paramedia collaboration block’

Stuart Brisley
[c.1973]
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Picture board for the performance, ‘Beneath Dignity’, by Stuart Brisley

Stuart Brisley
1977
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Diagram showing installation requirements for, ‘From the Fourth World to the Third World’, by Stuart Brisley

Stuart Brisley
1985
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Typed document entitled, ‘Ydoolb Yadnus Three’

Stuart Brisley
05 November 1999
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