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The Archive Online
Explore the Archive further via the various microsites dedicated to making material
available online. A searchable showcase offers a fascinating opportunity to explore
the range of archival material. Three engaging journeys provide insight into Tate's
History, the Bloomsbury Group and the art critic Barbara Reise.
It should be noted that these resources contain only a fraction of the remarkable body
of material contained in the main Tate Archive.
Archive Showcase and Journeys
Works returning from storage
in Piccadilly underground station
© London's Transport Museum
Over 4,000 items can be searched in this Archive Showcase around three initial
themes of Tate's History, the Bloomsbury Group and the art critic Barbara Reise.
Choose a theme and then media and/or category to explore:
You can also take three engaging journeys in which the Tate Archive reveals these remarkable stories.
Tate's Archive Showcase is part of an ongoing digital programme to make the
collections more accessible beyond the gallery walls. Tate Insight is
supported by the New Opportunities Fund.
Archive Micro-sites:
The following micro-sites provide background information about some of
the artists' papers and institutional/group records housed in Tate Archive.
The Tate Archive holds the archive of the Institute of Contemporary Arts from 1947 to 1987. The archive is an incredibly rich resource for anyone interested in the visual arts, theatre and performance art, dance, critical thought, music and sound art, and film. The ICA's archive has now been catalogued and the catalogues are available online. To celebrate this, and the ICA's 60th Anniversary, this exhibition has been created to give a flavour of the history of the ICA and its documentary evidence.
View the ICA Archive microsite
Tate acquired John and Myfanwy Piper's archive in 2004 with the aid of the Heritage Lottery Fund, and this display marks the completion of its cataloguing. It documents all aspects of their lives and work from the 1930s to the 1990s and includes letters, sketchbooks, manuscripts and photographs, a small selection of which can be seen here.
Read more on the John Piper display
Goshka Macuga's sculptural environments include unlikely displays of other artists' work alongside disparate collections of objects – books, souvenirs, scraps, artefacts and curios – thus blurring the roles of artist, curator and collector. For Art Now she has selected objects from Tate's Archive and Collection to explore conventions of archiving, exhibition making and museum display.
View the Goshka Macuga Microsite
Watch archival footage of cultural figures and artists in the Collection
and listen to a wide range of audio material.
View Audio and Film footage highlights
Prunella Clough working with stencils in her studio
This microsite focuses on Clough's figurative paintings
of the 1940s and 50s and her late abstract work. Featuring an interactive
resource and detailed room guide, it explores how Clough transformed
seemingly commonplace subjects - lorries and factory yards, the
detritus of street and gutter, the bright colours of plastics -
into images of compelling mystery and beauty.
View the Prunella Clough Microsite
Bill Furlong interviewing Joseph Beuys at his exhibition of drawings, Victoria & Albert Museum, 1983 © Tate
This microsite explores four hours of selected recorded clips from the audio cassette-magazine Audio Arts, established by Bill Furlong in 1973. Edited and produced by Furlong, it comprises an integral element of his art practice.
View the Audio Arts Microsite
This microsite documents the history of the annual artist-commissioned Christmas Tree at Tate Britain, using photographs from Tate's Archive.
View the Christmas Tree Microsite
This microsite was produced to celebrate the acquisition of the
Musgrave Kinley Outsider Trust's records by Tate Archive in 2003
(TGA 200327) and to support an exhibition held in the Goodison Room,
Tate Britain, 5 September 2005 - 2 January 2006.
View the Outsider Art Microsite
This microsite was produced to celebrate the part purchase/part gift of
the artist's personal papers from his Estate by Tate Archive in 2003
(TGA 200321) and to support a display, Donald Rodney, held in the
Goodison Room, Tate Britain, 20 September - 31 December 2004.
View the Donald Rodney Microsite
This microsite was produced to celebrate the acquisition of the records
of the APG by Tate Archive in 2004 (TGA 20042) and to support a symposium
and a display, Art and Social Intervention: the Incidental Person, held
at Tate Britain, 23 March 2005.
View an archived copy of the symposium proceedings
An introduction to the APG
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