Skip navigation

Main menu

  • What's On
  • Visit
  • Art
    • Discover Art
    • Artists
    • Artworks
    • Stories
    Stories
    Stories

    Watch, listen and read

  • Learn
    • Schools
    • Tate Kids
    • Research
    • Activities and workshops
    Tate Kids
    Tate Kids

    Games, quizzes and films for kids

  • Shop
Become a Member
  • View All
  • Exhibitions And Displays
  • On Today
  • Events
  • Tate Modern
  • Tate Britain
  • Tate St Ives
  • Tate Liverpool
  • Tate Britain
    Tate Britain Free admission
  • Tate Modern
    Tate Modern Free admission
  • Tate Liverpool + RIBA North
    Tate Liverpool + RIBA North Free admission
  • Tate St Ives
    Tate St Ives Ticket or membership card required
  • Families
  • Accessibility
  • Schools
  • Private tours
  • Discover Art
  • Artists
  • Artworks
  • Stories
  • Schools
  • Tate Kids
  • Research
  • Activities and workshops
Tate home page

Try searching for...

  • Hurvin Anderson
  • Ophelia
  • School visits to Tate
  • Tate Modern Lates
  • Tracey Emin

DON'T MISS

Exhibition

Hurvin Anderson

Tate Britain
Until 23 Aug 2026
Exhibition

Tracey Emin: A Second Life

Tate Modern
Until 31 Aug 2026
Become a Member
  • Discover Art
  • Tate Archive
  • Collections of Digitised Archive Items
  • Personal Papers of Ian Breakwell
  • Project files
  • ‘The Institution’

Personal Papers of Ian Breakwell

1960s–2005

  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Email
  • Pinterest

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

      • ‘The Institution’

        38 Objects

        • File labelled, ‘The Institution: Ian Breakwell & Kevin Coyne: Performances’

          13 Objects

        • File labelled, ‘Insitution - Ally Pally’

          8 Objects

        • Black and white photographic stills from ‘The Institution: A film by Ian Breakwell and Kevin Coyne’

          17 Objects

      • ‘Circus’

        140 Objects

      • ‘Auditorium’

        10 Objects

      • Artist-in-residence at Durham Cathedral

        23 Objects

      • ‘Ghost Dance (aka Dancing Strangers)’

        1 Object

Title
‘The Institution’
Date
[c.1971–2001]
Description
Consists of five files of documentation relating to 'The Institution' by Ian Breakwell and Kevin Coyne. These files include correspondence, writings, notes, printed material, photographs, press-cuttings, and audio-visual material.
Reference
TGA 20054/4/3

Showing 1–20 of 38 objects

Photograph of Worcester Lodge on Badminton Estate in Badminton, Gloucestershire

John Piper
[c.1930s–1980s]

Photograph of Worcester Lodge on Badminton Estate in Badminton, Gloucestershire

John Piper
[c.1930s–1980s]

Photograph of Worcester Lodge on Badminton Estate in Badminton, Gloucestershire

John Piper
[c.1930s–1980s]

Photograph of Worcester Lodge on Badminton Estate in Badminton, Gloucestershire

John Piper
[c.1930s–1980s]

Photograph of Worcester Lodge on Badminton Estate in Badminton, Gloucestershire

John Piper
[c.1930s–1980s]

Photograph of Worcester Lodge on Badminton Estate in Badminton, Gloucestershire

John Piper
[c.1930s–1980s]

Photograph of Worcester Lodge on Badminton Estate in Badminton, Gloucestershire

John Piper
[c.1930s–1980s]

Photograph of Worcester Lodge on Badminton Estate in Badminton, Gloucestershire

John Piper
[c.1930s–1980s]

Photograph of Worcester Lodge on Badminton Estate in Badminton, Gloucestershire

John Piper
[c.1930s–1980s]

Photograph of Worcester Lodge on Badminton Estate in Badminton, Gloucestershire

John Piper
[c.1930s–1980s]

Photograph of Worcester Lodge on Badminton Estate in Badminton, Gloucestershire

John Piper
[c.1930s–1980s]

Photograph of Worcester Lodge on Badminton Estate in Badminton, Gloucestershire

John Piper
[c.1930s–1980s]

Photograph of Worcester Lodge on Badminton Estate in Badminton, Gloucestershire

John Piper
[c.1930s–1980s]

Photograph of Worcester Lodge on Badminton Estate in Badminton, Gloucestershire

John Piper
[c.1930s–1980s]

Photograph of Worcester Lodge on Badminton Estate in Badminton, Gloucestershire

John Piper
[c.1930s–1980s]

Photograph of Worcester Lodge on Badminton Estate in Badminton, Gloucestershire

John Piper
[c.1930s–1980s]

Photograph of Worcester Lodge on Badminton Estate in Badminton, Gloucestershire

John Piper
[c.1930s–1980s]

Photograph of Worcester Lodge on Badminton Estate in Badminton, Gloucestershire

John Piper
[c.1930s–1980s]

Photograph of Worcester Lodge on Badminton Estate in Badminton, Gloucestershire

John Piper
[c.1930s–1980s]

Photograph of Worcester Lodge on Badminton Estate in Badminton, Gloucestershire

John Piper
[c.1930s–1980s]
Artwork
Close

Join in

  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • YouTube
  • Instagram
  • Pinterest

Sign up to emails

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Tate’s privacy policy

About

  • About us
  • Our collection
  • Terms and copyright
  • Governance
  • Picture library
  • ARTIST ROOMS
  • Tate Kids

Support

  • Tate Collective
  • Members
  • Patrons
  • Donate
  • Corporate
  • My account
  • Press
  • Jobs
  • Accessibility
  • Privacy
  • Cookies
  • Contact
© The Board of Trustees of the Tate Gallery, 2026
All rights reserved