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Ian Breakwell

1943–2005

The Other Side 2002
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16 artworks by Ian Breakwell
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Biography

Ian Breakwell (26 May 1943 – 14 October 2005) was a British artist, active as a diarist, a draughtsman, a film-maker, a painter, a photographer and a print-maker.

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    Ian Breakwell
    1974
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    Ian Breakwell
    1974
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    Ian Breakwell
    1974
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    Ian Breakwell
    1974
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    Ian Breakwell
    1974
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    Ian Breakwell
    1983
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    Ian Breakwell
    1983
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    Ian Breakwell
    1983
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    Ian Breakwell
    1983
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    Ian Breakwell
    1983
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    Ian Breakwell
    1983
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Sketches, letters, etc.

  • Notebook and one loose piece of paper

    Ian Breakwell
    [c.03 January–09 December 1975]
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  • Possible design for a poster which used to promote ‘The Institution: A film by Ian Breakwell and Kevin Coyne’

    Ian Breakwell, Kevin Coyne
    [c.1978]
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  • Black and white photograph of Dougie Thomson holding a large clown placard in the Theatre Royal, Glasgow

    Anonymous
    [c.1978]
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  • ‘Dancing Strangers’, a booklet of photographs and captions put together by Ian Breakwell for his work, ‘Ghost Dance (aka Dancing Strangers)’

    Ian Breakwell
    date not known
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