WILLATS, Stephen (b 1943)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0000 Willats
Held at	: University of the Arts London: Chelsea College of Art and Design   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.arts.ac.uk/study-at-ual/library-services/collections-and-archives/chelsea/ ›
Full title	: WILLATS, Stephen (b 1943)
Date(s)	: 1960s-1998
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 8 boxes
Name of creator(s)	: Willats | Stephen | b 1943 | conceptual artist

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born, London, 1943; worked at Ealing School of Art, 1962-1963; taught at Chelsea School of Art, 1960s; editor and publisher of Control Magazine, 1965-2002; Director, The Centre for Behavioural Art, London, 1972-1973; D.A.A.D. Fellowship, West Berlin, 1979-1980; Convenor of the Symposium, 'Art Creating Society', Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, 1990; solo and group exhibitions, 1964-2000, in the UK and Europe. Publications include: Art and social function. three projects (Latimer New Dimensions, London, 1976).

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of Stephen Willats, 1960s-1998, comprising documentation relating mainly to his West London Social Resource Project in the Greenford, Hanwell and Osterley area, [1972], including questionnaires, re-modeling books and manuals for Greenford, Hanwell and Osterley, black and white photographs of the areas, audio tape of statement and interviews with project operators, examples of returns from re-modeling books and manuals, participants' sheets, public decision sheets, map of project area, exhibition display mounts; papers relating to his Edinburgh Social Model Construction Project, 1973, including project operators' manuals, problem sheets for project areas, participant project file; advertising posters, photographs; exhibition catalogues, 1968-1998, for exhibitions of Willats' work in the UK, Europe and Toronto.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

The material is filed chronologically. The photographs and exhibition display material are unsorted.

Conditions governing access:

By written application to the Site Librarian, Manresa Road, London, SW3 6LS. Researchers from the London Institute may visit by appointment.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Photocopying is permitted, although copying of fragile material is at the discretion of the librarian.

Finding aids:

A list is available at Chelsea College of Art & Design Manresa Road Library. Some material is uncatalogued.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Donated by Stephen Willats.

Allied Materials

Related material:

Control magazine and publications by Stephen Willats are held in Chelsea College of Art and Design's main collection.

Notebooks, drawings, files and other material relating to his work 'Metafilter', 1973-1975 (reference: TGA 999), held by the Tate Gallery Archive.

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Sources: Victoria Miro Gallery website: http://www.victoria-miro.com. Compiled by Julie Tancell as part of the RSLP AIM25 project.

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
July 2002