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Personal papers of Stuart Brisley

[c.1953–2007]

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

Showing 101–120 of 137 objects

Pages one and two of text mounted on board relating to the ‘Artist Project Peterlee’, entitled, ‘PETERLEE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION’

Stuart Brisley
date not known
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Page three of text mounted on board relating to the ‘Artist Project Peterlee’, entitled, ‘PETERLEE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION’

Stuart Brisley
date not known
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Pages four and five of text mounted on board relating to the ‘Artist Project Peterlee’, entitled, ‘PETERLEE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION’

Stuart Brisley
date not known
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Page six of text mounted on board relating to the ‘Artist Project Peterlee’, entitled, ‘PETERLEE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION’

Stuart Brisley
date not known
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Pages seven and eight of text mounted on board relating to the ‘Artist Project Peterlee’, entitled, ‘PETERLEE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION’

Stuart Brisley
date not known
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Page nine of text mounted on board relating to the ‘Artist Project Peterlee’, entitled, ‘PETERLEE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION’

Stuart Brisley
date not known
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Pages ten and eleven of text mounted on board relating to the ‘Artist Project Peterlee’, entitled, ‘PETERLEE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION’

Stuart Brisley
date not known
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Board with text about the ‘Artist Project Peterlee’, and three images of Peterlee and surrounding area taken during the 1940s

Stuart Brisley
[c.1976–7]
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Document mounted on board, entitled, ‘Institution for Man: The Dismissal of Peterlee Development Corporation’, by Robert Morgen and Derek Robinson

Stuart Brisley
1976
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Map of the North East coast of England with an arrow pointing to Peterlee, and a copy of the document, ‘Farewell Squalor: Design for a new town and proposals for the re-development of the Easington Rural District’, prepared by C.W. Clarke, Engineer and Su

Stuart Brisley
[c.1976–7]
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‘5. Manor Way Peterlee 1976’

Stuart Brisley
1976
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‘134. Three officials outside Horden coke oven’

Stuart Brisley
date not known
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‘139. Brandlings Way Peterlee 1976’

Stuart Brisley
1976
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‘157. Brandlings Way Peterlee 1976’

Stuart Brisley
1976
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‘168. View from Yoden Way Peterlee 1976’

Stuart Brisley
1976
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‘176. Garages Peterlee 1976’

Stuart Brisley
1976
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‘199. Horden/Blackhall Beach 1976’

Stuart Brisley
1976
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‘259. Cold storage bunker Shotton coke ovens’

Stuart Brisley
date not known
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‘267. Ref Horden Collieries Ltd 1929. Ponies Hutton seam’

Stuart Brisley
[1929]
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‘271. Shotton colliery about 1936’

Stuart Brisley
[c.1936]
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