| Description | This file includes correspondence sent and received by Petherbridge concerning a wide range of activities undertaken in both a professional capacity as an artist, art educator, and writer, as well as in a personal capacity, including:
-invitations to teach/lecture (e.g. Kent Design Initiative Lecture; Byam Shaw School of Art; Royal College of Art; forum at the City University on 'The Economic Situation of the Visual Arts Revisited'; Goldsmiths' College; Humberside Public Art Seminar)
-invitations to events (e.g. unveiling of sculptures; exhibition openings)
-drawing research for 'The Primacy of Drawing' (e.g. research trips; requests for photographs)
-participation on panels and advisory boards (e.g. RSA's Art for Architecture Panel and directory of women speakers; William Townsend Memorial Lectureship Committee)
-journalism (e.g. work for the Financial Times, Art Quarterly; Women Artists Slide Library journal)
-participation on judging panels (e.g. Malvern Open Drawing Associates, Rexel-Derwent Drawing Competition)
-personal correspondence (e.g. discussing friendships, work, relationships; travel plans; building work to studio, arrangements to socialise)
-approaches from galleries (e.g. Contemporary Art Society Projects)
-work as an external examiner (e.g. Goldsmiths' College, MA & Diploma in Textiles)
-commissions (e.g. catalogue essay for Cecily Sash's exhibition catalogue, with draft attached; to edit a publication of essays produced out of the Public Art Forum's Critical Writing Workshop; to write catalogue essay for the Cleveland 'Riverscape' Catalogue, with draft attached)
-exhibitions (e.g. proposal for an exhibition on drawings by women artists, titled 'Einscluss und Ausschluss'/'Inclusion and Exclusion')
-broadcasts (e.g. work for BBC's Kaleidoscope)
-writing a reference for Sandy Nairne's nomination for a National Art Collections Fund
-planning for British Council sponsored trip to Singapore
-reference written for Graham Crowley, and Derek Hampson
Of particular note:
-letter from Roland Miller, Adviser to the Minister of Culture of the Slovak Republic to Doug Battensby, Chair of the Board of Directors, Artists Newsletter, dated 6 Feb 1992, concerning a conflict of interest between the National Artists Association and Artists Newsletter
-correspondence between Petherbridge, Angela Weight, Keeper of Visual Art, Imperial War Museum, and Polly Hope, artist, dated 8 Feb-23 Jun 1993, discussing Polly Hope's work of art ' Gulf Dawn'
-draft article, titled 'In Fusion', 1993
-correspondence between Pethebridge and Claire MacDonald, dated 7-13 Jul 1993, concerning MacDonald's publication on women and performance, and the location of the Studio International archives
-letter from Petherbridge to Frances Carey, British Museum, dated 13 Sep 1993, discussing the death of her friend and artist Sylvia Melland and the donation of a piece of her artwork to the British Museum
-notes for address given by Petherbridge at Sylvia Melland's funeral
-undated draft article, authored by Petherbridge, titled ' Drawing on History'
-undated draft text, titled 'Reconnoitre' with Petherbridge's annotations |