| 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; arrangements to socialise)
-invitation to events (e.g. to act as chair for a symposium at Plymouth University called 'The Purpose of Drawing'; to give paper at Nomadic 09 Conference on Art & Science, University of Porto, Portugal, September 2009; New Hall Art Collection Biennale; music events; lunches; study days; parties; private views)
-participation on panels/boards (e.g. application to be appointed to the National Gallery's Board of Trustees; East Midlands Open Exhibition selector)
-travel (e.g. Zanzibar; Los Angles; Australia, Artist in Residence, National Art School, Sydney, with lecture tour Feb-Mar 2011)
-drawing research (e.g. discussions with various academics, students and artists on the subject of drawing)
-approaches to galleries (e.g. The Mayor Gallery, Cork Street, London)
-publications (e.g. contribution to special edition of Print Quarterly, in honour of Antony Griffiths, Volume 28, No.4, 2011)
-invitations to lecture/teach (e.g. British Museum Annual Lecture to the Friends of Prints and Drawings, with lecture notes attached; National Gallery; keynote lecture at Drawing Research Network Conference, University of Brighton, 14th September 2010)
-location of works of art (e.g 'Maybe Icon of the Deposition'; 'Untitled I, from The Impossibility of Landscape Series'; 'Threshold'; 'Blood and Booze')
-grant and fellowship applications (e.g. Getty Residential Grant)
-The Primacy of Drawing publication (e.g. UK and US launch, publicity, promtional events, letters of support)
-approaches from charities and organisations asking for drawings to auction (e.g. New Hall Art Collection; The Drawing Room)
-reference written for Howard Riley
Of particular note:
-printed email exchange between Petherbridge and Cathy Courtney, Artists Lives project director, dated 14-15 Feb 2010, concerning the inclusion of parts of Petherbridge's oral history recording in the CD 'Connecting lines : artists talk about drawing'
-draft letter from Petherbridge, dated 26 Feb 2010, nominating artist Felicity Powell, for the Bryan Robertson Award
-grant proposal for Getty Residential Grant, titled 'Action Archives & Serial Sketchbooks', dated 31 Oct 2010
-letter from Michael Richardson, Art Space Gallery, dated 7 Oct 2010, approaching Petherbridge about an exhibition of her work
-printed email from Petherbridge to Alfonso Ramos, Curatorial Assistant of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, concerning the drawing 'Threshold' |