Personal Papers of Ian Breakwell
1960s–2005
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
- Title
- Project files
- Date
- [c.1967–2004]
- Description
- This series consists of thirty-two sub-series of correspondence, notes, writings, photographs, printed material, press cuttings, and audio-visual material relating to various projects undertaken by Ian Breakwell.
- Reference
- TGA 20054/4
Showing 1–20 of 247 objects
Bristol Arts Centre (Bristol, UK) Typed document describing the event, ‘Poetspeak’, at Bristol Arts Centre
02 February 1967
Bristol Arts Centre (Bristol, UK) Bill advertising ‘Shock’ (Shock or an evening at the theatre) at Bristol Arts Centre
03 June 1967
Bristol Arts Centre (Bristol, UK) Programme for, ‘Shock or an evening at the theatre’, at Bristol Arts Centre
03 June 1967
Bristol Arts Centre (Bristol, UK) Typed document describing an evening of readings by Kevin Coyne at Bristol Arts Centre
11 July 1967
Bristol Arts Centre (Bristol, UK) Programme of events for Bristol Arts Centre: September - December 1967
September–December 1967
Unknown person(s) Photocopied sheet of paper listing stage props for a performance featuring Ian Breakwell and Ivor Davies at Bristol Arts Centre
December 1967
Bristol Arts Centre (Bristol, UK) Bill for ‘Mixture’ an experimental evening of film and theatre at Bristol Arts Centre
16 December 1967
Bristol Arts Centre (Bristol, UK) Programme for ‘Mixture’ an experimental evening of film and theatre at Bristol Arts Centre
16 December 1967
Unknown person(s) Photograph of an episode from ‘Buffet Car News’, a performance by Ian Breakwell
1967–8
Bristol Arts Centre (Bristol, UK) Photograph of an episode from ‘Buffet Car News’, a performance piece by Ian Breakwell
1967–8
Bristol Arts Centre (Bristol, UK) Photograph of a six feet by four feet contact strip of 64 scenes from ‘Buffet Car News’, a performance piece by Ian Breakwell
1967–8
Ian Breakwell Script entitled, ‘Buffet Car News: a happening by Ian Breakwell’
1967–8
Bristol Arts Centre (Bristol, UK) Programme of events for Bristol Arts Centre: January - March 1968
January–March 1968
Unknown person(s) Handwritten list of artists who had held exhibitions, readings, films, theatre-events, lectures and music at Bristol Arts Centre
date not known
Bristol Arts Centre (Bristol, UK) Application form for film membership at the Bristol Arts Centre
date not known
Ian Breakwell Outline for ‘Fading Menu: an event by Ian Breakwell’
03 December 1968