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Basic Design and the Hatton Gallery: researching, displaying and sharing archival resources

This British Art Network seminar takes the revolutionary teaching known as Basic Design and the related display on view at the Hatton Gallery as a starting point for a day of presentations and discussion on the way in which researchers, curators and art institutions use, present and share archival material with their audiences.

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In this talk writer and researcher Beth Williamson negotiates the joys and frustrations of archival research. Taking the artist and educator William Johnstone (1897-1981) as a case study the talk assembles fragments of documents, correspondence, photographs and manuscripts, seeking out the roots of Basic Design as it was conceived of in Britain, as well as the exchange of ideas that helped to shape that聽conception.

 
 

Artist and lecturer Suzi Tibbetts reflects on her experience conducting archival research, at the National Arts Education Archive in relation to Hudson鈥檚 teaching and, more broadly, approaches to teaching relating to Basic聽Design.聽

 
 

Donald Smith, Director of Chelsea SPACE, discusses the use of archives and Special Collections to create experimental curatorial projects whilst tacitly examining an art school鈥檚 history and聽pedagogy.

 
 

Curator, oral historian and researcher Liz Bruchet considers some of the complex custodial responsibilities generated by the digitisation and crowdsourcing activities of the Slade Archive project, a joint initiative of the Slade School of Fine Art and UCL Centre for Digital聽Humanities.

 
 

Dr Jo Melvin, Reader in Research in Archives and Special Collections, Chelsea College of Arts, UAL, is interested in the modifications of established canons, failures and blemishes unearthed in archival investigations. In this talk she refers to Barry Flanagan鈥檚 archive to demonstrate how the archive鈥檚 materiality lends itself to visual display that in turn casts new ways of thinking about events surrounding聽exhibitions.

 
 

This presentation explores the approach and activities used to maximise accessibility and engagement with archive materials both in Tate and beyond, made possible through the Transforming Tate Britain: Archives & Access, Heritage Lottery Funded聽project.

 
 

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