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Personal Papers of Ian Breakwell

1960–2005

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Available online are items which reflect key periods and themes in Ian Breakwell's work. These include project files relating to works such as 'The Institution', 'Circus', and 'Auditorium', as well as placements and artist-in-residences at Durham Cathedral. There are also notebooks kept by Ian Breakwell which feature diary entries and ideas for works, photographs, correspondence, and audio-visual material.

Details of the remainder of the collection can be found on the Archive catalogue.

Collection Owner
Ian Breakwell 1943–2005
Collection
Tate Archive
Acquisition
Presented to Tate Archive by Ian Breakwell, April 2005.
Reference
TGA 20054

266 objects in this collection

  • Personal Papers of Ian Breakwell

    266 Objects

    • Correspondence

      12 Objects

    • Notebooks

      7 Objects

    • Project files

      247 Objects

      • Bristol Arts Centre

        19 Objects

        • File labelled, ‘Bristol Arts Centre’

          19 Objects

      • Performance documentation

        16 Objects

      • ‘The Institution’

        38 Objects

      • ‘Cܲ’

        140 Objects

      • ‘Aܻ徱ٴǰܳ’

        10 Objects

      • Artist-in-residence at Durham Cathedral

        23 Objects

      • ‘Ghost Dance (aka Dancing Strangers)’

        1 Object

Title
Bristol Arts Centre
Date
ڳ.1967–8
Description
Consists of one file of documentation relating to exhibitions and performances at The Bristol Arts Centre by Ian Breakwell and other artists between 1967-1968.
Reference
TGA 20054/4/1

Showing 19 objects

Typed document describing the event, ‘Poetspeak’, at Bristol Arts Centre

Bristol Arts Centre (Bristol, UK)
02 February 1967
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Bill advertising ‘Shock’ (Shock or an evening at the theatre) at Bristol Arts Centre

Bristol Arts Centre (Bristol, UK)
03 June 1967
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Programme for, ‘Shock or an evening at the theatre’, at Bristol Arts Centre

Bristol Arts Centre (Bristol, UK)
03 June 1967
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Private view card for, ’“Light” an exhibition of drawings and paintings by patients at Whittingham Hospital, together with twelve drawings and paintings by Kevin Coyne’, at Bristol Arts Centre

Bristol Arts Centre (Bristol, UK)
07 July 1967
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Typed document describing an evening of readings by Kevin Coyne at Bristol Arts Centre

Bristol Arts Centre (Bristol, UK)
11 July 1967
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Programme of events for Bristol Arts Centre: September - December 1967

Bristol Arts Centre (Bristol, UK)
September–December 1967
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Photocopies of two stills of Ian Breakwell performing as ‘The Surgeon’ in a performance with Ivor Davies at Bristol Arts Centre

Anonymous
December 1967
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Stage directions for a performance featuring Ian Breakwell and Ivor Davies at Bristol Arts Centre

Ivor Davies
December 1967
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Photocopied sheet of paper listing stage props for a performance featuring Ian Breakwell and Ivor Davies at Bristol Arts Centre

Unknown person(s)
December 1967
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Bill for ‘Mixture’ an experimental evening of film and theatre at Bristol Arts Centre

Bristol Arts Centre (Bristol, UK)
16 December 1967
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Programme for ‘Mixture’ an experimental evening of film and theatre at Bristol Arts Centre

Bristol Arts Centre (Bristol, UK)
16 December 1967
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Photograph of an episode from ‘Buffet Car News’, a performance by Ian Breakwell

Unknown person(s)
1967–8
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Photograph of an episode from ‘Buffet Car News’, a performance piece by Ian Breakwell

Bristol Arts Centre (Bristol, UK)
1967–8
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Photograph of a six feet by four feet contact strip of 64 scenes from ‘Buffet Car News’, a performance piece by Ian Breakwell

Bristol Arts Centre (Bristol, UK)
1967–8
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Annotated script entitled, ‘Buffet Car News... Ian Breakwell: Script Copy No. 3’

Ian Breakwell
1967
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Script entitled, ‘Buffet Car News: a happening by Ian Breakwell’

Ian Breakwell
1967–8
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Programme of events for Bristol Arts Centre: January - March 1968

Bristol Arts Centre (Bristol, UK)
January–March 1968
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Handwritten list of artists who had held exhibitions, readings, films, theatre-events, lectures and music at Bristol Arts Centre

Unknown person(s)
date not known
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Application form for film membership at the Bristol Arts Centre

Bristol Arts Centre (Bristol, UK)
date not known
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