| 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; health; politics; arrangements to socialise)
-invitation to events (e.g. 'The Witches and Old Women Album in Context', Study Day, The Courtauld Institute of Art, 2 May 2015; Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) fellow event; Big Draw launch event; private views)
-paticipation in conferences/symposiums (e.g. The Pragmatics of Optimum Scale in Drawing: The Invention of a Modern Medium, Study Day, Harvard Art Museum, 7 Apr 2017; Call for Drawings Symposium, 'Drawing Conclusions' Utrecht Graduate School of Visual Art & Design, The Netherlands, 24 Jun 2015, with notes titled 'Cognitive Mapping, Codes & the Transparency Delusion attached; Drawing: Meaning, Process & Critique in The Drive of Drawing, Jan Van Eyck Academy, Maastricht, The Netherlands, 5th Nov 2015)
-participation on panels and boards (e.g. Advisory Board of Drawing: Research, Theory and Practice)
-exhibitions (e.g. 'Design & Research: Shared Territories', Design Research Institute at Xian Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China, 28 Oct - 11 Nov 2014; 'Deanna Petherbridge, Retrospective exhibition', Whitworth Art Gallery, 2 Dec 2016 4 Jun 2017)
-drawing research (e.g. discussions with various academics, students and artists on the subject of drawing)
-publications (e.g. contribution to 'Black Mirror I: Embodiment', Fulgur, 2016; contribution to 'Visions of Enchantment: Occultism, Magic and Visual Culture', select papers from the University of Cambridge Conference, Fulgur Press, 2019; contribution to 'Studio Research', Issue No.4 Nov 2016; contribution to 'The international encyclopedia of art and design education' volume 3, pedagogy'; exhibition catalogue essay in 'Wendy Smith: Touching the Surface?', Art Space Gallery, 2015, with draft essay attached)
-travel (e.g. Burma; India; Goa, Australia)
-invitations to lecture/teach (e.g. Summer School course 'Lines of Sight and Invention', The Courtauld Institute of Art, 2014 & 2015; Falmouth University; Victoria & Albert Museum, 'Chardin to Cézanne' course, 19 Nov 2015; The Courtauld plenary lecture, 31 Jul 2015; keynote lecture at 'Drawing International Brisbane' 30th Sep 2015)
-Witches & Wicked Bodies (e.g. correspondence with the British Museum; letters of support and congratulations)
Of particular note:
-transcript of interview, 7 Nov 2014, between Petherbridge and artist Rochelle Haley, discussing the medium of drawing and its relationship to movement, time and change
-printed email exchange between Petherbridge and Niall Hobhouse, drawing collector, dated 21 Jan 2015, discussing the prices of Petherbridge's work
-printed email exchange between Petherbridge and Nigel Meager, editor of the pedagogy volume of the international encyclopedia of art and design education, dated 29 Mar-1 Apr 2015, discussing Petherbridge's proposed chapter
-printed email from Petherbridge to Ella Flemming, Events Manager, Paul Mellon Centre, dated 24 Nov 2015, concerning her proposed paper discussing her British Council sponsored tours of India
-research notes on Piranesi in John Soane Museum, dated 23 Feb 2016
-printed email exchange between Petherbridge and Wendy Male, dated 25 Aug 2016, discussing the paper conservation course at Camberwell school of Art and Craft, Petherbridge's large scale drawing, 'The Iron Siege of Pavia', and a book of Petherbridge's etchings produced by Guy Petherbridge
-speech written by Petherbridge for Anne Rykwert's memorial event, 14 Sep 2016 |