| 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. discussing friendships, work, relationships; travel plans; arrangements to socialise; purchase of house in Italy)
-participation in seminars/symposiums (e.g. Anatomy Lessons at the Wellcome Trust)
-invitations to events (e.g. private views; lectures; lunches; exhibition openings; birthday parties; funerals; memorial event for Jeremy Rees)
-journalism (e.g. work for Art Quarterly)
-invitations to teach/lecture (e.g. Forest Girls' School, Snarebrook; Power Drawing Workshop Conference, The Campaign for Drawing & National Society for Education of Art & Design (NSEAD); Prince's Drawing School Sculpture on Paper Symposium, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds)
-approaches from galleries (e.g. Piers Feetham Gallery; The Drawing Gallery; Indar Pasricha Fine Arts)
-approaches to galleries (e.g. Angela Flowers)
-publications (e.g. The Primacy of Drawing, and Petherbridge's relationship with the publishers Thames & Hudson)
Of particular note:
-email exchange between Petherbridge and Coulson Consulting, dated 7-9 Jun 2004, concerning the role of Chair of Drawing at the University of the Arts, London
-letter from Petherbridge to Deborah Swallow, dated 29 Jun 2004, congratulating her on her appointment as Director of the Courtauld
-letter from Petherbridge to writer and friend, Hilary Spurling, dated 1 Oct 2004, discussing how much she enjoyed reading her book 'The Girl from the Fiction Department, A Portrait of Sonia Orwell''
-letter from Abha Kapoor, Indar Pasricha Fine Arts, London, dated 1 Oct 2004, concerning the drawing 'Temple Tank', 1990 |
| Image Caption | Letter from Petherbridge to Hilary Spurling, dated 1 Oct 2004, discussing how much she enjoyed reading her book 'The Girl from the Fiction Department, A Portrait of Sonia Orwell' |