| 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:
-invitations to teach/lecture (e.g. Cambridge College of Arts and Technology)
-approaches from charities asking for drawings to auction (e.g. Art auction in aid of Ethiopia, the Sudan, and Chad; British Defence and Aid Fund for Southern Africa; Sharon Allen Leukaemia Trust)
-invitations to events (e.g. The Contemporary Arts Society exhibition; What price arts sponsorship?, Tate Gallery)
-attending conferences, exhibitions, lectures (e.g. ICA Conference: A Question of Post-Modernity)
-approaches from galleries (e.g. The Park Gallery Cheltenham)
-journalism and writing (e.g. work for Grosvenor Press International Ltd.'s Interior Designers Handbook, with article written by Petherbridge about the Contemporary Art Society and Caryl Hubbard; photography for publications)
-buyer and seller information of works of art (e.g. 'Hierof')
-personal correspondence (e.g. with Michael Sandle; travel arrangements; letters of congratulations; disscussing arrangements to meet up; thank you letters)
-involvement with the editing of a report, titled 'The Economic Situation of the Visual Artist'', commissioned by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
-role on the panel for the 'Portland Clifftop Sculpture Park 2'
Of particular note:
-letter from Petherbridge to Milada Slizinska, dated 16 Apr 1985, discussing Riverside Studios
-correspondence between Petherbridge and Elisabeth Kozmian-Ledward, dated 15 Apr-20 Jun 1985, discussing the inclusion of Petherbridge's work in a film about women artists working in Britain |