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  • Box file labelled, ‘Northern Ireland: Sketches in catalogue, 14 pieces from show, 2 photos etc. (3)’

Material relating to works by Conrad Atkinson

[c.1955–84]

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Items chosen from this collection for digitisation include photographs of wall murals, posters, and graffiti Northern Ireland, taken by Conrad Atkinson during the 'Troubles' in the early 1970s, as well as source material and original sketches by the artist for the exhibition catalogue for 'A Shade of Green, An Orange Edge', at the Art Council Gallery, Belfast, 1975. Also chosen are writings and organisational documentation relating to the formation and activities of the Artists' Union.

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

Collection Owner
Conrad Atkinson 1940–2022
Collection
Tate Archive
Acquisition
Purchased by Tate Archive from Margaret Harrison, November 2010.
Reference
TGA 201020

160 objects in this collection

  • Material relating to works by Conrad Atkinson

    160 Objects

    • Box file labelled, ‘Northern Ireland 74-75 (2)’

      3 Objects

    • Box file labelled, ‘Northern Ireland: Sketches in catalogue, 14 pieces from show, 2 photos etc. (3)’

      70 Objects

    • Photographs taken by Conrad Atkinson during his work in Northern Ireland for the exhibition, ‘A shade of green, an orange edge’

      66 Objects

    • Box file labelled, ‘Artists Union (1) 1971-74. Women’s workshop, Newsletters, Conference, Education’

      9 Objects

    • Box file labelled, ‘Artists Union (30) Current 1974 - ’

      12 Objects

Title
Box file labelled, ‘Northern Ireland: Sketches in catalogue, 14 pieces from show, 2 photos etc. (3)’
Date
[c.1968–80]
Description
This file consists of documentation relating to the exhibitions, 'A shade of green, an orange edge', by Conrad Atkinson at the Arts Council Gallery, Belfast, May 1975, and 'Northern Ireland '68 - May Day '75', at the Midland Group Gallery, Nottingham, and Artnet, London, 1975.

It includes sketches, diagrams, quotes, and photographs, some of which are mounted on board and were displayed in the exhibition, and used in the exhibition catalogue for, 'A shade of green, an orange edge'. It also includes other photographs, correspondence, writings, printed and published material, and press cuttings relating to the 'Troubles' in Northern Ireland during the 1970s.
Reference
TGA 201020/3

Showing 1–20 of 70 objects

Colour photograph mounted on board of a rosette in the colours of the Irish flag depicting the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, surrounded by the slogan, ‘Remember Our Glorious Dead’

Conrad Atkinson
[c.1975]
View by appointment

Colour photograph, mounted on board, of two women standing in front of a wall with a Union Jack and the word, ‘Ulster’, painted on it.

Conrad Atkinson
[c.1975]
View by appointment

Colour photograph, mounted on board, of the words ‘Ulster’, ‘Up UVF’, and a Union Jack painted on a wall

Conrad Atkinson
[c.1975]
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Quote, mounted on board, about the troubles in Northern Ireland by an anonymous ‘Girl’ from a Belfast Secondary School

Conrad Atkinson
[c.1975]
View by appointment

Quote, mounted on board, from ‘The Dilemma’ (1969), by John Hewitt

Conrad Atkinson
[c.1975]

Quote, mounted on board, about Ireland, by the cartoonist, Rowel Friers

Conrad Atkinson
[c.1975]

Quote, mounted on board, about the troubles in Northern Ireland, by James Simmons

Conrad Atkinson
[c.1975]

Quote, mounted on board, about Northern Ireland, by John Hewitt, an Irishman in Coventry

Conrad Atkinson
[c.1975]

A sectarian joke, originally printed in the ‘Ulster Loyalist’

Conrad Atkinson
17 January 1974

Quote, mounted on board, about discord between the religious communities in Northern Ireland by Richard Rose, taken from ‘Governing without Consensus’, Faber, 1971

Conrad Atkinson
1971
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Quote, mounted on board, about the problem of expressing national identity in Northern Ireland, by Terence O’Neill

Conrad Atkinson
1968
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Quote about the ‘Troubles’ in Northern Ireland by ‘Capt. L of the Glosters’, which was originally reported in the Observer Review, 8 December 1974

Conrad Atkinson
[c.08 December 1974]
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Quote about the ‘Troubles’ in Northern Ireland by an anonymous author

Conrad Atkinson
[c.1975]

Poem about Northern Ireland by Seamus Heaney

Conrad Atkinson
[c.1975]

Quote about the ‘Troubles’ in Northern Ireland by Andrew Waterman

Conrad Atkinson
[1968–71]

Poem about Northern Ireland by Seamus Heaney

Conrad Atkinson
[c.1975]

Quote by Michael Friel

Conrad Atkinson
[c.1975]

Colour photograph of a wall in Northern Ireland painted with Irish Republican slogans and flags

Conrad Atkinson
[c.1978]

Colour photograph of a wall in Northern Ireland painted with a pig, dressed in a police or army uniform, next to the word, ‘British’

Conrad Atkinson
[c.1975]
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Colour photograph of a wall in Northern Ireland painted with a pig, dressed in a police or army uniform, next to the words, ‘Go Home’

Conrad Atkinson
[c.1975]
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