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Personal papers of Stuart Brisley

[c.1953–2007]

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Items chosen from this collection for digitisation include project files and a notebook kept by the artist which document important performances, installations, exhibitions and sound works, and a series of photographic boards created during Stuart Brisley's time as Community Artist with the Artist Project Peterlee. There is also an important piece of source material relating to the work, 'A study for 'Seminal Sequences'', 1995-1996, by Stuart Brisley. This work is currently in the British Museum.

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

Collection Owner
Stuart Brisley born 1933
Collection
Tate Archive
Acquisition
All papers (except the Peterlee project) presented to Tate Archive by Stuart Brisley, November 2011. [The boards relating to the Peterlee project was relocated from the APG archives (TGA 20045), date of entry 2004 to Stuart Brisley's archives (TGA 201114), date of entry 2013.]
Reference
TGA 201114

137 objects in this collection

  • Personal papers of Stuart Brisley

    137 Objects

    • Project files and writings

      91 Objects

    • Artist Project Peterlee

      46 Objects

Title
Personal papers of Stuart Brisley
Date
[c.1953–2007]
Description
Items chosen from this collection for digitisation include project files and a notebook kept by the artist which document important performances, installations, exhibitions and sound works, and a series of photographic boards created during Stuart Brisley's time as Community Artist with the Artist Project Peterlee. There is also an important piece of source material relating to the work, 'A study for 'Seminal Sequences'', 1995-1996, by Stuart Brisley. This work is currently in the British Museum.

Details of the remainder of the collection can be found on the Archive catalogue.
Reference
TGA 201114

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Black and white photograph of ‘The Cenotaph Project’ by Stuart Brisley and Maya Balcioglu

Stuart Brisley
[c.02 December 1987]
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Black and white photograph of ‘The Cenotaph Project’ by Stuart Brisley and Maya Balcioglu

Stuart Brisley
date not known
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Black and white photograph of ‘The Cenotaph Project’ by Stuart Brisley and Maya Balcioglu

Stuart Brisley
date not known
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Black and white photograph of ‘The Cenotaph Project’ by Stuart Brisley and Maya Balcioglu

Stuart Brisley
date not known
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Black and white photograph of ‘The Cenotaph Project’ by Stuart Brisley and Maya Balcioglu

Stuart Brisley
date not known
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Annotated draft copy of a typed document entitled, ‘Against Cultural Bacchanal’, by Maya Balcioglu and Stuart Brisley

Stuart Brisley
12 February 1989
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Annotated typed document entitled, ‘All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned’

Stuart Brisley
1989
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Annotated draft copy of a typed document entitled, ‘Caption: Stuart Brisley & Maya Balcioglu, “Foreign News” from “Bourgeois Manners No. 3: In-sight unseen”’

Stuart Brisley
1989
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Annotated draft copy of a typed document entitled, ‘Caption: Stuart Brisley & Maya Balcioglu, “Foreign News” from “Bourgeois Manners No. 3: In-sight unseen”’

Stuart Brisley
1989
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Typed document entitled, ‘An account of Stuart Brisley’s work “Bourgeois Manners - Brute Force and Bloody Ignorance”’

Stuart Brisley
[c.1988–9]
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Photocopied, handwritten document entitled, ‘Proposal from Stuart and Maya Balcioglu’

Stuart Brisley
09 January 1989
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Pages one and two of text mounted on board relating to the ‘Artist Project Peterlee’, entitled, ‘CONTEXTS 1: ORIGINS’

Stuart Brisley
date not known
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Page three of text mounted on board relating to the ‘Artist Project Peterlee’, entitled, ‘CONTEXTS 1: ORIGINS’

Stuart Brisley
date not known
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Pages one and two of text mounted on board relating to the ‘Artist Project Peterlee’, entitled, ‘CONTEXTS 2: THE FRAMEWORK’

Stuart Brisley
date not known
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Page three of text mounted on board relating to the ‘Artist Project Peterlee’, entitled, ‘CONTEXTS 2: THE FRAMEWORK’

Stuart Brisley
date not known
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Pages one and two of text mounted on board relating to the ‘Artist Project Peterlee’, entitled, ‘CONTEXTS 3: DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONS’

Stuart Brisley
date not known
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Page three of text mounted on board relating to the ‘Artist Project Peterlee’, entitled, ‘CONTEXTS 3: DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONS’

Stuart Brisley
date not known
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Pages one and two of text mounted on board relating to the ‘Artist Project Peterlee’, entitled, ‘CONTEXTS 4: THE PETERLEE PROPOSAL’

Stuart Brisley
date not known
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Page three of text mounted on board relating to the ‘Artist Project Peterlee’, entitled, ‘CONTEXTS 4: THE PETERLEE PROPOSAL’

Stuart Brisley
date not known
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Page four of text mounted on board relating to the ‘Artist Project Peterlee’, entitled, ‘CONTEXTS 4: THE PETERLEE PROPOSAL’

Stuart Brisley
date not known
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