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Personal Papers of Ian Breakwell

1960s–2005

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Available online are items which reflect key periods and themes in Ian Breakwell's work. These include project files relating to works such as 'The Institution', 'Circus', and 'Auditorium', as well as placements and artist-in-residences at Durham Cathedral. There are also notebooks kept by Ian Breakwell which feature diary entries and ideas for works, photographs, correspondence, and audio-visual material.

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

Collection Owner
Ian Breakwell 1943–2005
Collection
Tate Archive
Acquisition
Presented to Tate Archive by Ian Breakwell, April 2005.
Reference
TGA 20054

266 objects in this collection

  • Personal Papers of Ian Breakwell

    266 Objects

    • Correspondence

      12 Objects

    • Notebooks

      7 Objects

    • Project files

      247 Objects

      • Bristol Arts Centre

        19 Objects

      • Performance documentation

        16 Objects

        • File labelled, ‘Performance Documentation’

          16 Objects

      • ‘The Institution’

        38 Objects

      • ‘Circus’

        140 Objects

      • ‘Auditorium’

        10 Objects

      • Artist-in-residence at Durham Cathedral

        23 Objects

        • File labelled, ‘Hidden Cities: Durham’

          4 Objects

        • Material relating to Ian Breakwell’s time spent as artist-in-residence at Durham Cathedral

          19 Objects

      • ‘Ghost Dance (aka Dancing Strangers)’

        1 Object

Title
File labelled, ‘Hidden Cities: Durham’
Date
[c.June 1995–November 2002]
Description
This file consists of documentation relating to Ian Breakwell's contribution to the 'Hidden Cities' project. Ian Breakwell gave a tour of Durham as part of a series of alternative guided tours of British cities, commissioned by The Laboratory at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. This file includes correspondence, notes and writings, printed ephemera, and press cuttings relating 'Hidden Cities: Durham'.
Reference
TGA 20054/4/26/3

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Typed document entitled, ‘Hidden Cities: Durham 22 September 1995’

Ian Breakwell
22 September 1995
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Ticket for Ian Breakwell’s ‘Hidden Cities’ tour of Durham

Unknown person(s)
22 September 1995
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Leaflet entitled, ‘The Cathedral Church of Christ and Blessed Mary the Virgin Durham - Hidden Cities’

Locus , The Laboratory at Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art (Oxford, UK)
22 September 1995
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Annotated script for ‘Hidden Cities: Durham’, by Ian Breakwell

Ian Breakwell
1995
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