| 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:
-participation on panels and advisory boards (e.g. National Drawing Centre, Working Group; Year of the Artist, Steering Group)
-participation in seminars/symposiums (e.g. Seminar on Public Art to Inform Labour Party Policy; ICA/London Film Festival conference on violence and the arts)
-exhibitions (e.g. 'Sculptor's Choice' at the Royal Academy of Arts; 'Making Presence', ArtSway; 'The Quick and the Dead', touring exhibition)
-broadcasts (e.g. Sue Aron's untitled drawing show; BBC radio show, 'The Outline Around the Shadow'; proposal for tv series produced by Martin Rosenbaum, 'Walking the Line with Deanna Petherbridge')
-Royal College of Art (e.g. proposed developments to teaching of drawing)
-personal correspondence (e.g. selling house on Sikinos; arrangements to socialise; discussing friendships, work, relationships, health; travel plans; letters of congratulations, and thank you notes)
-publications (e.g writing catalogue essay for : Sylvia Melland: A Retrospective Exhibition (1906-1993), London: Boundary Gallery, 1995)
-invitations to events (e.g. exhibition openings)
-invitations to teach/lecture (e.g. University of North London; City University, London)
-reference written for Katy Deepwell
-work as an advisor for The Leverhulme Trust on a grant application submitted by The Royal Academy of Arts
Of particular note:
-letter from artist Polly Hope, dated 9 Apr 1997, concerning unauthorised changes made to her mural at the Barbican, with letters written in her support to John Tulsa, Director of the Barbican, by Petherbridge and Bryan Robertson attached
-exhibition proposal for 'The Quick and the Dead: Artists & Anatomy' |