| 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:
-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; invitations to visit studios)
-approaches from galleries (e.g. Boundary Gallery, Agi Katz Fine Art; Flowers East (Angela Flowers))
-publications (e.g. exhibition catalogue essays written for 'Sculpture in Goodwood Drawings and Models 1994-98', and 'Lines of Desire, International drawing exhibition)
-participation on panels and advisory boards (e.g. Liverpool John Moores University Professorship and Readership Conferment Panel)
-invitation to events (e.g. conferences, parties, private views, RIBA Honorary Fellows presentation)
-exhibitions ('The Quick and the Dead: Artists and Anatomy' touring exhibition)
-participation at conferences/symposiums (e.g. 'The Quick and the Dead, theorising the anatomical body', The Mead Gallery & Warwick Arts Centre; 'Drawing the Future', University of Huddersfield; 'Constructing and Deconstructing the Body: Art and Anatomy XVth-XXth Century', Annecy)
-role as a judge for the Barclaycard Drawing Award
Of particular note:
-letter from Petherbridge to the Ruletta Family, dated 19 Aug 1998, discussing Sikinos; 'The Quick and the Dead: Artists and Anatomy' exhibition; and her role at the Royal College of Art
-correspondence between Petherbridge, the conservator John Burbidge, and Graham Allen, Assistant Director, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, dated 11 Mar- 17 Jun 1988, concerning the conservation of Petherbridge's mural in Symphony Hall, Birmingham
-letter from Petherbridge to Nigel Walsh, Curator at City Art Gallery, Leeds, dated 19 Aug 1998, concerning 'The Quick and the Dead: Artists and Anatomy' exhibition, and its installation in Geneva |