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
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