George Wyllie was born in Glasgow in 1921. Initially a sailor and then a customs officer, he rapidly acquired a national and international reputation as an artist and sculptor, working in regenerative, performance and public art. The underlying principle of his work was that art can change ideas and is an essential force in society. There was always a question at the heart of his work. He called his art Scul?ture.
Wyllie exhibited widely in the United Kingdom, Europe, India and the United States. His best known works are ‘The Straw Locomotive,’ ‘The Paper Boat,’ ‘A Day Down a Goldmine’, ‘Equilibrium of Spires’ and ‘The Cosmic Voyage.’ He also worked in theatre, writing, installations and film. He lived and worked in Gourock, Scotland.
Wyllie had a long association with the University of Strathclyde, staging his first ever solo exhibition in the University’s Collins Gallery in 1976. In April 1990, the University awarded him the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters.
In 2005, he was awarded an MBE for service to the Arts. He died in 2012.
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Sketches, travel diaries, notebooks, slides, photographs, reviews, press cuttings and scrapbooks relating to all of Wyllie's art projects and exhibitions. Also includes correspondence with other artists, Wyllie's lectures and writings, biographical information and publications about Wyllie.
The papers were donated by George Wyllie to the University of Strathclyde between 2006 and 2009.
No access restrictions.
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Printed document, September 2002, with manuscript amendments, March 2003.
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Printed document.
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Typescript.
Correspondence in T-WYL 11/7 Cuttings book 7.
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Poem by Liz Lochhead for George Wyllie's 75th birthday. Presented to him at his party in Princes Square, Glasgow on 29 December 1996. Manuscript.
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Seal is fragile.
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The photographs were commissioned by the University of Strathclyde.
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Invitation card; press cuttings from ‘The Herald’, 25 October 2006 (photocopy), ‘Express’, 26 October 2006 and ‘Evening Times (Glasgow)’, 25 October 2006; speech by Professor Andrew Hamnett, Principal of the University of Strathclyde, typescript.
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Sketch with accompanying text.
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The travel diaries include original sketches, paper scraps and nature samples.
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Includes inserted envelope containing 12 postcards and 2 local maps.
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'Nature pages' contain pressed leaves, preserved butterflies and a moth.
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Contains loose enclosures.
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Contains loose enclosures.
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Includes pressed flowers.
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Photographs and albums collated by George Wyllie. Comprises photographs of his sculptures, photographs collated for research, and personal photographs.
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Photographs by George Young, Gourock; George A Oliver, Glasgow; James Hall, Greenock; and other photographers.
With contents list.
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Photographs by George Young, Gourock; Glasgow Herald; and other photographers.
With draft contents list.
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Photographs by Alan D Crumlish, Glasgow; George Oliver, Glasgow; George Young, Gourock; and other photographers.
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Photographs by Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert, Glasgow; George Oliver, Glasgow; Marius Alexander, Edinburgh; George Young, Gourock; Rhoda Galyn, New York; Alan D Crumlish, Glasgow; Kenny Munro; Allan Milligan; Jim Cunningham, Beith; Norman McBeath, Oxford; Noreen Flynn, Berlin; Douglas Robertson, Edinburgh; and other photographers.
Includes childhood photograph c. 1928.
Also includes 2 contact sheets, 1 letter, press cuttings and draft contents list.
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Personal photographs by various photographers.
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Scul?ture photographs by various photographers.
Albums numbered 1-6.
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Photographs and printed images by various photographers.
Includes press release for Society for the Advancement of Brain-Injured Children (SABIC). George Wyllie donated his work 'Forget-me-not' which was used by the Society as a symbol for a campaign.
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By various photographers.
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By various photographers.
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By various photographers.
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Album entitled 'ADDAGM (RH & Third Eye)'
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Album entitled 'ADDAGM St A & Aberdeen'.
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Albums entitled 'ADDAGM (Waterman's)' i.e. A Day Down A Gold Mine. Slight differences between albums, one version has original illustrations and typescript captions accompanying the photographs.
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Photographs of the making of the sculpture.
Includes loose photographs and printed sheet.
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Includes photographs of locomotive sculptures and flyer for exhibition 'Scul?ture in Motion' at the Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh from 22 August 1983 - 15th September 1983; and 'some miscellaneous photographs of ships, cars and other means of Transport'.
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Collection of photographs of interior design sculpture projects completed by George Wyllie, mainly commissions.
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Collection of photographs of sculpture project at Hattersley Community Centre, Hyde.
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Photographs of sculptures by George Wyllie. Includes 'The Call of the Sea' sculptures.
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Includes photographs of sculptures named 'Figures from the Glebe', 'Risers', 'Bollard', 'Full Stop' and 'Crag'.
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Photographs of George Wyllie and his sculptures including the Holyrood sign at Arthur's Seat, Edinburgh, 'Life Cycle', 'The Great European Cuckoo Clock', 'A Bumper Dragon' and 'A Day Down A Gold Mine'.
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Photographs of the construction, display and burning of the Straw Locomotive, by George Oliver, Marius Alexander and others.
Album of photographs entitled 'Straw Loco'.
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Includes invitation to the launch of the Paper Boat on 6th May 1989 at the Finnieston Crane, Glasgow and exhibition at the Pearce Institute, Glasgow for Mayfest 1989.
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Photographs of various sculpture projects including safety pin sculpture; wee hauf; paper boat and spires.
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Photographs of various sculpture projects.
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Photographs of various sculpture projects.
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Album of photocopies of Spire sculptures with manuscript captions.
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Photographs of a performance of Circus Gold in Berlin.
Includes inserted envelope containing 10 additional photographs.
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Information pack on Guinard Island, used during the Second World War for field trials on biological warfare. Includes original photographs illustrating the events leading up to the return of Gruinard Island to its original owners on 1 May 1990.
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Formerly an autograph book. Photographs of George Wyllie's sculptures mounted with manuscript captions interspersed with 'poetic interludes' dated from 1926-1929.
Includes inserted envelope with additional photographs.
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Photographs and flyer for 'Rock in the Boat' exhibition at Gilmorehill Centre at University of Glasgow from 15 June 1999 - 25 June 1999.
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Photographs taken during 'The March of the Standing Stones' at Edinburgh Festival Fringe event. Photographs by Marius Alexander and other photographers.
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Photographs for 'The Parade of the Missing Tourists' at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe event.
Includes wallet with 3 additional photographs.
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Includes digital prints, photocopies, press cuttings and information on various projects.
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Includes one photograph of construction of the Running Clock sculpture.
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Includes photographs of 'Adam's other book', 'Spikey burd', 'Chuckie Soup', spires and other sculptures or commissions.
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Includes photographs of various puffer sculptures.
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Photographs of Stag [Monarch of Auchmountain Glen?] and Pond.
Includes photographs of bird (burd?) bath sculpture.
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Includes photographs of Monarch of Auchmountain Glen, Paper Boat, Ro-Ro, Para Handy, Just Sublime, and George Wyllie at work.
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Includes University of Strathclyde Bicentenary garden party at Jordanhill Campus, 1996, with George Wyllie dressed as John Anderson (7 photographs); ‘Q M’ boat, with David Clark (11 photographs); Stones of Scotland (5 photographs); and Paper Boat assembly at Finnieston (6 photographs).
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Religious, [1967-1969], 1972, June 1976, September 1982, January/February 1993, April 1999, 101 colour transparencies; War memorial, St John’s, Oban, July 1986, 13 colour transparencies.
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The Windows of Marlborough, June 1988, 19 colour transparencies; Spires and Garden Festival, May-September 1988, 73 colour transparencies and August 1989, 3 colour transparencies; Miscellaneous at Garden Festival, 1988, 14 colour transparencies; SSA 1988 [Society of Scottish Artists exhibition], November 1988, 18 colour transparencies; SSA 1989 (Demarco’s), November 1989, 9 colour transparencies; Early work, 1960s-1970s, 29 colour transparencies; Own work, 1972-1983, 71 colour transparencies; Exhibitions (general views), 1972-1979, 16 colour transparencies; Gallery exhibits, miscellaneous, 1979-1998, 15 colour transparencies.
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Kelvingrove [Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow] Cafe, September 1993, November 1994, March 1995, April 1998, 23 colour transparencies; Interior design (miscellaneous), 1976-1991, 28 colour transparencies; Interior design, 1968-1995, 281 colour transparencies.
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TV work, September 1979, 10 colour transparencies & 2 outdoor scenes; TV (Building, Horseman’s Word), [undated], 18 colour transparencies; Sit-ins (A Place for Peasants, McLellan Galleries, Glasgow, Jollity Farm, A Place for Poets, Smokers Outfit), 1972, 1975, 1977, 38 colour transparencies; Hattersley sit-in, [undated], 42 colour transparencies; Bell Sculpture and St Lawrence, [undated], 15 colour transparencies; Mitchell-Swire, [1970], 14 colour transparencies.
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Locos, 1970s-1990s, 168 colour transparencies; Real locos, 1980s-1990s, 7 colour transparencies; Toys, including toy planes, 1983-1984, 1997, 32 colour transparencies; Short histories, 1983-1987, 13 colour transparencies; Angels, [1980s?], 20 colour transparencies; CRM [Charles Rennie Mackintosh], 1984, 1996-1997, 34 colour transparencies; Machines and mechanicals, 1979, 1984, 1987-1991, 48 colour transparencies.
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‘Action’ photos, 1975-1989, 107 colour transparencies; Observations, including commercially published slides, 1972-1992, 58 colour transparencies; Observations (local), 1972-1993, 74 colour transparencies; Observations (Scotland), 1976-1996, 44 colour transparencies; Observations (Torness), December 1988, 8 colour transparencies; Observations (Orkney), including commercially published slides, 1984, 20 colour transparencies; Observations (New York), 1984, 29 colour transparencies; Observations (USA), including commercially published slides, 1982-1984, 47 colour transparencies; America miscellaneous, 1984-1985, 14 colour transparencies; Quirky, 1982-1992, 22 colour transparencies; Garden [George’s garden at Gourock], 1976-1998, 48 colour transparencies; Garden sunsets and rainbows, 1984-1996, 19 colour transparencies; From the window, 1989-1998, 22 colour transparencies; Workshop, 1976-1995, 9 colour transparencies.
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Scul?ture, 1970s-1990s, 303 colour transparencies; Scul?ture (Codpiece), 20 colour transparencies; '???????', 9 colour transparencies; NM Birds, August 1987, August 1988, 18 colour transparencies.
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Scul?ture, 1976-1996, 66 colour transparencies; Scul?ture Lyth, August 1987, 13 colour transparencies; Scul?ture, Old Favourites at the People’s Palace [Glasgow], August 1996, 13 colour transparencies.
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GA [General Accident, Perth], February, August and November 1983, 107 colour transparencies; Flexies [some taken in Wyllie’s garden in Gourock], November 1976, February and July 1983 and July 1984, 28 colour transparencies; Cradles, 1983 and November 1988, 12 colour transparencies; Pata-Probe, Synenergezetic sculpture, April 1994 and Small Trees, 15 colour transparencies.
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Amsterdam, December 1987/January 1988, 37 colour transparencies; Yugoslavia, [undated], 37 colour transparencies; Kassel Documenta, 1987, May 1989, 56 colour transparencies; Milan Triennale, April 1992, 32 colour transparencies; Demarco journeys [ie Richard Demarco], November 1977 and August 1987, 17 colour transparencies; Demarco Marquesse (Arran) [sailing ship], [undated], 14 colour transparencies; DDR [Deutsche Demokratische Republik, ie East Germany], June 1993, 16 colour transparencies; Rothenburg and East Berlin, October 1988, 17 colour transparencies; Berlin students visit, July/August 1989, 4 colour transparencies; Demarco Hungary, July/August 1989, 3 colour transparencies; Dublin, [undated], 13 colour transparencies; Yugoslavia, [undated], 19 colour transparencies, and February 1988, 17 colour transparencies; München-Gladbach, 1987, 7 colour transparencies; Berlin, June, December 1988, April 1994, 35 colour transparencies; Dortmund workshops, September 1991, (2 colour transparencies), July 1992, (33 colour transparencies) and June 1994, (1 colour transparency); Demarco Budapest, [undated], 5 colour transparencies.
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Hand Hollow exhibits, 1982-1983, 44 colour transparencies; Americana, January, September 1987, November 1988, 81 colour transparencies; ‘Liberty’ and WAM [Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts, USA], 1983, March 1984, May 1985, 54 colour transparencies.
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HH Church [Hand Hollow Foundation, New York, USA], September 1982, August 1983, July 1984, 44 colour transparencies; HH Temple of Fertility, March and July/August 1983, February/March and July 1984, February 1990, 104 colour transparencies; HH Fertility Eagle, 1983, 9 colour transparencies.
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Goldmine, 1982-1987, 55 colour transparencies; ‘Mine Aberdeen [Excavating for a Mine], June 1984, 56 colour transparencies; ADDAGM Watermans [Brentford] and Third Eye [Glasgow], 1982, 3 colour transparencies; ‘Mine St Andrews [Excavating for a Mine], May-June 1984, 33 colour transparencies; ADDAGM Assembly Rooms [Edinburgh, 1985], 8 colour transparencies; ADDAGM ICA [Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 1985], 24 colour transparencies; Goldmine Watermans [Christmas Day down a Gold Mine, Watermans Arts Centre, Brentford, December 1984-January 1985], 18 colour transparencies.
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Breaking the Habit (Gun), November 1996, May 1997, 9 colour transparencies; Safety Pin including Princes Street, Edinburgh, May/June, August, November 1997, 42 colour transparencies; The Bike Show (Open Eye) [Gallery, Edinburgh], September, October 1998, 29 colour transparencies; Across the Moyle, Wigtown, October 1998, 9 colour transparencies; Bosun’s Pipe, July/August 1996, 33 colour transparencies; Kosovo (SSA installation), September 1996, 5 colour transparencies; Sox (Across the Sea), November/December 1995, 9 colour transparencies; Listen for Destiny (Stirling), June 1998, 1 colour transparency; Finlaystone Bikes, June-August 1997, 30 colour transparencies; The Kerrera Saga, May/June 1998, 16 colour transparencies.
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Spires, 1983, 1987-1992, 1995-1996, 1998, 408 colour transparencies; Spires ‘New Beginnings’, May 1989, 14 colour transparencies; Spire, Rannoch Moor, July 1989, 17 colour transparencies; Spire FJU, Rannoch, November 1988 & December 1990, 30 colour transparencies, & March 1984, 7 colour transparencies; Spires Lewis and Harris, March 1987, May, July 1989, May 1990, 31 colour transparencies; Gordonstoun Spire, November 1992, 8 colour transparencies; Happy Compass, April 1999, 3 colour transparencies; Stromness Spire Installation, November 1992, 7 colour transparencies; Miscellaneous Spires, March 1987, March, July 1989, July 1995, 17 colour transparencies; Loaves and Fishes Spire, [undated], 1 colour transparency; Spires (Variations), May 1997, January 1998, 12 colour transparencies.
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Spire Montpellier, December 1993, 12 colour transparencies; Unidentified, March 1993, 1 colour transparency, and July 1984, 5 colour transparencies; Spires Berlin Ufa-Fabrik, December 1988, 7 colour transparencies; Berlin, August-September 1988, 117 colour transparencies; Berlin Spires on Glasgow Green, [1988], 27 colour transparencies; Spires Yugoslavia, February 1988, 8 colour transparencies; Spires Sarajevo Installation, [1988?], 15 colour transparencies; Belgium, [undated], 18 colour transparencies; Greece (Pottery), October-November 1989, 47 colour transparencies; Royalston (Massachusetts) Spire, July 1984, 5 colour transparencies; Amsterdam Spire, January 1988, 7 colour transparencies; Dennes[?], February 1990, 3 colour transparencies; New York Spire, November 1987, 65 colour transparencies.
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The Dancon Spire, April 1989, 15 colour transparencies; 7 Spires Demarco [Gallery, Edinburgh], April 1989, 28 colour transparencies; 7 Spires An Lanntair [Gallery, Stornoway], November 1988-January 1989, 40 colour transparencies; 7 Spires Lewis, November-December 1988, 92 colour transparencies; 32 Spires [for Hibernia], July 1994, 86 colour transparencies; 32 Spires for Hibernia (Edinburgh), April 1995, 24 colour transparencies; Islay, June 1993, 1 colour transparency; Mull, September 1993, 5 colour transparencies; Rest and be thankful, [undated], 1 colour transparency.
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Captain Speaking, August/September 1996, 32 colour transparencies; Fort William Railway Disaster, April 1995, 39 colour transparencies; Temple for a Tree, July/August 1992, 54 colour transparencies; Romanian Wedding [in George Square, Glasgow], August 1992, 16 colour transparencies; ‘Flourish’, December 1989 and April 1990, 51 colour transparencies; Film House, Edinburgh, August 1989, 15 colour transparencies; Destiny, 1986, 17 colour transparencies; Flowers of the Forest, 1988, 1 colour transparency; Shortbread Wedge, June 1988, 15 colour transparencies; I once went down to the Sea again, June 1988, 12 colour transparencies; Rabbie’s Rocket, August 1987, 37 colour transparencies; Holyrood and the Parade of the Missing Tourists, [August 1987?], 43 colour transparencies; March of the Standing Stones, [September 1985], 4 colour transparencies; Prove it, [August 1988], 29 colour transparencies; Dumfries ‘Mice’, April 1990, 1 colour transparency.
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Straw loco, May, July 1987, May 1991, October 1995.
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Berlin Burd, August, October, December 1988, 59 colour transparencies; Berlin Burd at the Zoo, December 1988, 24 colour transparencies; Circus Gold (Berlin), September 1988, 44 colour transparencies; Berlin Burd (later), September 1988, 5 colour transparencies; Berlin Burd, June 1993, 3 colour transparencies.
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Tegel Bikes, June 1993, 48 colour transparencies; Oasis, May-June 1988, 27 colour transparencies; Architects Workshop, May-June 1993, 9 colour transparencies; Wally Dugs, January 1994, April 1995, 41 colour transparencies; The ‘Factory’ and Port Glasgow, March 1989, 15 colour transparencies; AMARC Tugboat, April 1990, 2 colour transparencies; Perth Elephant, April 1996, 10 colour transparencies.
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Paper Boat, Glasgow, May 1989, 144 colour transparencies; Paper Boat, Glasgow (night), May & August 1989, 61 colour transparencies; Paper Boat, Glasgow and Greenock, March-May 1989, 29 colour transparencies; Paper Boat, Glasgow, Caird Institute and Tramway exhibitions, July/August 1989, 30 colour transparencies.
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Paper Boat, London, September and December 1989, 122 colour transparencies; Festival Hall Paper Boat exhibition, September 1989, 4 colour transparencies; Bluecoat [Gallery], Liverpool Paper Boat exhibition, August/September 1989, 68 colour transparencies.
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Binder 1: Paper Boat exhibition, Winter Gardens, New York, July 1990, 25 colour transparencies; Paper Boat assembly, New York, July 1990, 31 colour transparencies; Paper Boat, New York, July 1990, 54 colour transparencies; Paper Boat, New York (day), July 1990, 19 colour transparencies; Paper Boat, New York (night), July/August 1990, 19 colour transparencies; Paper Boat, New York (personal and QEII sequence), July 1990, 33 colour transparencies; Paper Boat Spires, New York, July 1990, 4 colour transparencies; Paper Boat, Antwerp, October 1990, 75 colour transparencies.
Binder box 2: Paper Boat, Dumfries, May, July/August 1991, 112 colour transparencies; Paper Boat, Ayr, June 1994, 15 colour transparencies; Paper Boat, Forth, June 1995, 46 colour transparencies.
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Why?s Man, May, July 1990, 6 colour transparencies; The Why?s Man ADDAGM [A Day down a Gold Mine], April/May and July 1990, 50 colour transparencies; The Why?s Man (not Goldmine), May 1990, 48 colour transparencies; Gruinard, April/May and July 1990, 18 colour transparencies.
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Images of exhibition 'Scul?ture Jubilee, 1966-1991' at various locations, May 1991-January 1992.
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Great European Velocipeds, Edinburgh, December 1992/January 1993, 16 colour transparencies; Great European Velocipeds, Manchester, June 1994 and October 1995, 20 colour transparencies; Great European Velocipeds, Transport Museum [Glasgow], June 1994 and March 1995, 19 colour transparencies; Blake’s Bike RSA and home [ie George Wyllie’s home in Gourock], January, May and November 1995, 13 colour transparencies; Blake’s Bike RH2 [Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London], November 1994, January and November 1995, 36 colour transparencies; Blake’s Bike – Tyger Tents, November 1994, 19 colour transparencies; Blake’s Bike – St J Garden, November 1994, 50 colour transparencies, and St J Prior, April 1994, 5 colour transparencies; Tents at Demarco’s, December 1995, 4 colour transparencies; Misc Bikes, RSA/ Open Eye [Gallery, Edinburgh] ‘Eco’ Bike Show, April 1995, May and October 1998, 5 colour transparencies.
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Strathdon 1994, June 1992 [sic], 32 colour transparencies; Strathdon 1995, July/August 1995, 68 colour transparencies; Islay Goose, June 1993, 43 colour transparencies; Islay, March/April 1992, 44 colour transparencies; Islay and Jura Spiral Project, March 1993, 35 colour transparencies; Post Box (Red Palm Tree), Isle of Lewis, February 1993, 10 colour transparencies and July 1994, 4 colour transparencies; Herring Drifter, Stornoway, August 1993, 2 colour transparencies; Mull - Calgary, July 1996, 27 colour transparencies and business card from Cultural Engineers, Pittsburgh, USA; Mull Fablevision, September 1993, 18 colour transparencies; An Lanntair [Gallery, Stornoway], August/September 1989, 3 colour transparencies.
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Cricket, Madras, 34 colour transparencies; Cricket, Madras BC [British Council?], 42 colour transparencies; Madras, 31 colour transparencies; Mahala Puram, 23 colour transparencies; Mahala Puram sights, 14 colour transparencies.
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Bombay, 51 colour transparencies; Bangalore, 43 colour transparencies; Bangalore Bikes , including cow-dung bikes, 65 colour transparencies; Singapore, 27 colour transparencies.
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Robins, 1995-1998, 90 colour transparencies; Assembly of Robins, October 1988, 14 colour transparencies; Burns, June, November 1996, 22 colour transparencies; Transport Museum and Kelvingrove, 1993-1995, 7 colour transparencies; Kelvingrove Bikes, 1994-1995, 14 colour transparencies; Bicycle Accident, 1993-1995, 8 colour transparencies; The Lochgelly [a tawse], April 1995, 5 colour transparencies; 1st Academy of the Open Air, November 1995, August 1996, 18 colour transparencies; Ro-Ro, October 1998, 10 colour transparencies; Campbeltown Ro-Ro, April 1990, June, August 1996, 13 colour transparencies; 3 miscellaneous slides: Dumfries Workshop, Stromness AC, and Quarry Brae.
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Callanish, January 1995, 18 colour transparencies; i on Stones, April 1995, April, November 1996, 22 colour transparencies; Loch Eck, N Munro, Cloud 5, April/May 1998, 5 colour transparencies; Cloud 5, January 1998, 30 colour transparencies; Na Dunanven, January 1995, 11 colour transparencies; Kilmartin, [undated], 30 colour transparencies.
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Hiroshima, George Square [Glasgow], August 1995, 44 colour transparencies; Gently does it, [undated - 1990s], 13 colour transparencies; And-I, [undated - 1990s], 16 colour transparencies; Seagull and Pigeon, August 1997, May 1998, 13 colour transparencies; Stones of Scotland, April, June 1998, May/June 1999, May 2000, 12 colour transparencies; Crystal Ship – [no transparencies present].
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Contents previously stored in slide boxes.
Box 1: Puffer, November 1997, (7 colour transparencies), April 1999 (2 colour transparencies), July 2000 (5 colour transparencies); [MacGillivray Walk] Fochabers, May 1996, 7 colour transparencies, Foyers, May-June 1996, 15 colour transparencies, Beauly, June 1996, 7 colour transparencies, Poolewe, June, September 1996, 3 colour transparencies, Loch Maree, June 1996, 6 colour transparencies, Harris, June 1996, 8 colour transparencies; Ellon, September, November 1991, 50 colour transparencies; Alloa, May 1992, 18 colour transparencies; Portsmouth Harbour, August 1996, 16 colour transparencies; Portsmouth ‘Flight into Europe’, November 1992, 12 colour transparencies; Man of Straw, September 1991, March 1992, 37 colour transparencies; Thurso, April 1992, 10 colour transparencies; Tweed and Stornoway, February, August 1993, 20 colour transparencies; Lillie [Art Gallery, Milngavie], November 1993, January 1994, 46 colour transparencies; Lillie and RGI [Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Art], December 1991/January 1992, 33 colour transparencies; Speug [Sparrow], July 1991, 22 colour transparencies; Princes Square [Glasgow] Peacock, April, June 1998, 23 colour transparencies; Falkirk BR [British Rail], February 1992, 5 colour transparencies; Kvaerner, June 1998, April 1999, 20 colour transparencies.
Box 2: Exhibition at Benjamin Rhodes Gallery, London, December 1990 [Dark Side of the Moon], 17 colour transparencies; Unidentified slides, October 1990, 11 colour transparencies; Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh exhibition, October 1995, 27 colour transparencies; Tron Kirk, December 1992/January 1993, 30 colour transparencies; Croc, December 1991, 18 colour transparencies; Barbara’s Tree, April 1996, 11 colour transparencies; Fish, October 2000, 24 colour transparencies; Life Cycle, June 1994, 27 colour transparencies; Miscellaneous Bikes, December 1992, February 1993, April & June 1994, 31 colour transparencies; PWK, November 1993, 21 colour transparencies; Stag, November 1999, July 2000, 6 colour transparencies; The Call of the Sea, May/June 1997, 12 colour transparencies; Own work, 1970s-1990s, 38 colour transparencies; Tatlin and Kilmany, September 1993, August & November 1995, 28 colour transparencies; Demarco [A Very Merry Christmas exhibition], January 1994, 8 colour transparencies; [Atlantic Vent?] May 2000, July 2001, 27 colour transparencies.
Box 3: Domestic, 1980s-1990s, 164 colour transparencies; Holiday photographs [some faded], July 1986 and undated, 34 colour transparencies; Dennis, February 1990, 16 colour transparencies; Jen’s family [faded], undated, 19 colour transparencies; Miscellaneous, some unidentified, 1990s, 26 colour transparencies; Unidentified slides, 1990s, 172 colour transparencies.
Box 4: Miscellaneous unidentified slides, 1980s-1990s, 320 colour transparencies.
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Slides of other artists' work:
VB [Venice Biennale], 1972, 77 colour transparencies; Cologne and Athens, undated, 16 colour transparencies; ROSC Dublin, 1977, 18 colour transparencies; Sculpture in Holland, undated, 31 colour transparencies; Panza Coll, Varese, undated, 12 colour transparencies; Sculptors miscellaneous, 1972-1989, 16 colour transparencies; Miscellaneous paintings, 3 colour transparencies, and World War I photograph, 1 colour transparency; Sculpture Canada, undated, 10 colour transparencies; Sculpture in Scotland, 1972-1998, 34 colour transparencies; Sculpture USA, 1972-1990, 39 colour transparencies; Sculpture USA (Denis Conor etc), 1984, 14 colour transparencies; Sculpture USA Lippincotts Works, New Haven, Connecticut, 1984, 8 colour transparencies; Alexander Calder, undated, 15 colour transparencies; David Smith, undated, 14 colour transparencies; G [George] Rickey, 1982-1990, 21 colour transparencies; G Rickey sculptures and 21 Spires in Parks Dept Depot, 1994-1995, 19 colour transparencies; G Rickey Hill House [Helensburgh], 1997, 4 colour transparencies; Julio Gonzalez, undated, 16 colour transparencies, including 1 commercially published slide.
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Slides of other artists’ work, including commercially published slides.
Surreal, 1972-1988, 94 colour transparencies; Surreal lecture, 1972-1982, 19 colour transparencies.
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Catalogue and poster for Scul?ture: a diversion into three dimensional humour by George Wyllie at Collins Exhibition Hall, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, 3-28 September 1976.
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Poster for This is Scul?ture at MacRobert Art Gallery, University of Stirling, 10-26 May [1977].
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Poster, catalogue and invitation to private view for Scul?ture: an exhibition by George Wyllie at McLean Museum and Art Gallery, Greenock, 17 November-10 December 1977.
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Flyer for Hang-ups, hang-ups... exhibition by Tom Lamb and George Wyllie at the University of Strathclyde Staff Club Lounge, Glasgow, 15 May 1978.
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Poster for Glasgow Group 21st annual exhibition, by George Wyllie and others, at McLellan Galleries, Glasgow, 12-24 June 1978.
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Poster and invitation to private view for Scul?ture by George Wyllie at Henderson Gallery, Edinburgh, 19 August-8 September 1978.
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Catalogue, with notes by George Wyllie and Richard Demarco, and poster for George Wyllie hears the Call of the Sea at Talbot Rice Art Centre, Edinburgh, 19 November-15 December 1979.
Copy of catalogue, invitation to private view, poster, manuscript copy of catalogue notes and press reviews in T-WYL 11/4 Cuttings book 4
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Posters for Scul?ture ‘at the Sign of the Adjustable Palm Tree’, by George Wyllie at Hendersons Gallery, Edinburgh, 18 August-4 September [1980]. Handwritten posters signed by George Wyllie and dated August 1980.
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Invitation to private view on 6 September 1980 of Counterbalance: paintings and sculpture by Dawson Murray and George Wyllie at Stirling Gallery.
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Poster for George Wyllie Scul?ture at Spectro [Arts Workshop], Newcastle upon Tyne, 29 November-20 December 1980.
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Poster for Glasgow Group Christmas exhibition at John D Kelly Gallery, Glasgow, 6-27 December [1980].
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Invitation to preview on 7 January 1981, press release, catalogue notes and posters for A Way with the Birds and other Scul?ture at Collins Exhibition Hall, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, 8-28 January 1981.
Still Life with Crocodile: two handwritten posters (slight differences), each signed by George Wyllie and dated 1981.
Catalogue notes and press reviews in Cuttings Book 4 (T-WYL 11/4); Poetry reading by George Wyllie, Alasdair Gray, Jim Kelman and Tom Lamb, 22 January [1981] – advert also in Cuttings Book 7, 1990 (T-WYL 11/7).
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Poster for Art and the Sea by George Wyllie and others at Third Eye Centre, Glasgow, 17 January-15 February 1981, and other venues.
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Poster for Art and the Sea at Ceolfrith Gallery, Sunderland Arts Centre, 24 March-25 April 1981.
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Poster for Art and the Sea at ICA [Institute of Contemporary Arts], London, 6 January-7 February 1982.
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Poster for Is a Scotsman’s Home his Dustbin? Touring dustbin campaign against nuclear dumping at Dounreay. Scotland Against Nuclear Dumping, [1981].
[George Wyllie took part in an event in George Square, Glasgow in April 1981.]
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Flyer and posters for Summer Show, 2: George Wyllie [and Elizabeth Ogilvie] at Serpentine Gallery, London, 8 August-6 September 1981.
Black and white poster handwritten and signed by George Wyllie, 1981.
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Flyer and poster for A Day down a Goldmine: exhibition by George Wyllie at Third Eye Centre, Glasgow, 17 July -7 August 1982.
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Poster for A Day down a Goldmine: play by George Wyllie, with Russell Hunter, at Third Eye Centre, Glasgow, 6-7 August [1982]. Colour poster handwritten by George Wyllie.
Posters for ‘The Undiscovery of Architecture’: one poster is handwritten by George Wyllie.
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Poster for Scul?ture in Motion at Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh, 22 August-15 September 1983.
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Catalogue for Excavating for a Mine: the notebook for a scul?tural dig: exhibition by George Wyllie at Crawford Centre for the Arts, St Andrews, 11 May-3 June 1984; Crawford Centre Summer season programme, 1984.
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Catalogue, invitation to private view on 9 June 1984 and poster for Excavations from a mine: a scul?tural dig: exhibition by George Wyllie at Art Space, Aberdeen, 9-27 June 1984; Art Space programme, May-June 1984.
[Later exhibited at Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts, USA, 1984.]
Invitation to private view, press reviews and catalogue notes for Aberdeen exhibition in Cuttings book 5 (T-WYL 11/5); poster mounted on hardboard with 'Christmas Day down a Goldmine' exhibition poster (T-WYL/6/23)
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Catalogue, invitation to preview on 13 December 1984 and poster for Christmas Day down a Goldmine: exhibition by George Wyllie at Watermans Arts Centre, Brentford, 14 December 1984-13 January 1985.
Poster is mounted with 'Excavations from a mine' exhibition poster (T-WYL/6/22); press cutting in Cuttings Book 5 (T-WYL 11/5)
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Invitation to private view on 22 April 1985 and poster for Friendship paintings by Jens Jensen and George Wyllie at Goethe Institut/Scottish German Centre, Glasgow, 22 April-8 May 1985; Goethe Institute programme, April-May 1985.
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Poster for Third Eye: the first ten years: exhibition at Third Eye Centre, [Glasgow], 4 May-1 June [1985]. Features George Wyllie’s exhibition from 17 July-4 August 1982.
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Posters for A Day down a Goldmine play at Wildman Rooms, Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh, 25-31 August 1985; Assembly Rooms Edinburgh Festival programme, 1985; Original Earth Guarantee: handbill.
[Play won Fringe First Award.]
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Poster and programme for A Day down a Goldmine play at Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London, 14-25 January 1986, Joint Jock Production; ICA January 1986 programme; ICA Theatre: Winter projects programme, 1986.
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Programme and poster for A Day down a Goldmine: play by George Wyllie, with Mr Wyllie and Tony Gorman, Immediate Theatre Company at Third Eye Centre, [Glasgow], 17-21 February [1986?].
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Poster for A Day Down a Goldmine: play by George Wyllie, assisted by Joe McDermott and Tony Gorman at Glasgow Arts Centre, 6-9 May 1986.
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Advertising poster for unknown venue and date.
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George Wyllie’s Americana: exhibition at Glasgow Arts Centre, 6-30 May 1986. Catalogue notes by George Wyllie, 1986; Glasgow Arts Centre programme, April-July 1986; Mayfest, 2-24 May 1986 programme; Opening Weekend celebrations programme, 1-6 May 1986; poster; poster for Glasgow Arts Centre touring exhibition; manuscript notes entitled 'Americana (headings)', 1986.
[Later exhibited in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA.]
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Invitation to private view on 11 March 1987 for exhibition at Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh, 12 March-4 April 1987.
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TSWA 3D organised by TSW - Television South West and South West Arts.
Poster for programme of exhibitions for 'Twelve works on nine sites throughout Britain and Northern Ireland'; poster describing the project at the Finnieston Crane, Glasgow involving the Straw Locomotive by George Wyllie; poster mounted on card with colour photographs – George Wyllie: the Straw Locomotive. Finnieston Crane, Glasgow, 4 May – 21 June 1987.
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Poster showing Finnieston Crane.
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Poster for Glasgow, locomotive builder to the world: exhibition at Springburn Museum, [Glasgow], 4 May – 31 July 1987.
[Exhibition on the Cowlairs Railway Works, to coincide with George Wyllie’s Straw Locomotive.]
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Poster for Cowlairs Railway Works, 1841-1966: exhibition at Springburn Museum, [Glasgow].
[Inspiration for Straw Locomotive?]
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Invitation to private view on 19 September 1987 for Paintings and Scul?ture at Sea by George Wyllie at Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh, 19 September-1 October 1987.
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Catalogue for Artists choose Artists at Socrates Sculpture Park, New York, 7 November 1987-15 March 1988.
[Exhibition included George Wyllie’s New York Spire, 1987.]
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Glasgow Week in Amsterdam programme; poster; Glasgow Style ’87 poster.
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Catalogue produced by National Galleries of Scotland, 1988 and flyer with location plan, Glasgow Parks & Recreation Department, 1988.
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Poster for Art in the Garden: installations at Glasgow Garden Festival, 28 April – 26 September 1988.
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Poster for Glasgow Group Festival Exhibition: 31st annual exhibition at McLellan Galleries, Glasgow, 6-11 June 1988.
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Glasgow-Berlin Spire and Circus Gold performance. Glasgow in Berlin, August-December 1988.
Poster for Berlin Birds: sculpture installation, 1 December 1988; Glasgow in Berlin programme (German); Great Britain in Berlin programme (English and German); and Circus Gold and Berlin Spire: leaflet for performance on 27 August 1988 (German).
[Berlin was European City of Culture in 1988, Glasgow in 1990.]
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Poster for Images of the Western Isles exhibition: Seven Spires for Lewis and the Dancon Spire, by George Wyllie; with Margot Sandeman, Still Lives from High Corrie and Arran Landscapes; also Erik Hoffman and Ulrike Kanne, Portraits from the Western Edge. At Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh, 12 April-6 May 1989.
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Flyer and poster for The Paper Boat exhibition at Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, 12 August-2 September 1989.
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Posters signed by George Wyllie, colour poster 1/50.
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Poster for On Paper: SSA [Society of Scottish Artists] exhibition at Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh, 4 November-2 December 1989.
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Flyer for The Glasgow Flourish: exhibition in Paris 1989, Glasgow 1990.
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World Financial Center Arts and Events Program, Summer [1990].
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Poster and flyer for A Day down a Goldmine: play at Tramway, Glasgow, 10-17 December 1990. Also Tramway programme, October-December 1990.
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Film written by Murray Grigor and George Wyllie, directed by Murray Grigor, with Bill Paterson, Naomi Mitchison, Norman Orr and Mary Rose Beacmont. Viz Productions in association with Channel 4 Television.
DVD, colour, 57 minutes with 11 minutes extra feature, with notes by Murray Grigor, December 2011. Cover shows Clyde Clock; DVD, another version (defective) without notes, showing George Wyllie and Bill Paterson on the cover; Flyer for transmission of the film on 18th July 1990; Typescript notes about film by Barbara and Murray Grigor, 28 April 1988.
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Poster for showing of film at Cinema Two, 24 August [1990?].
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Robert Burns Centre Film Theatre programme, July-August 1991.
Film shown, along with ‘Seawards the great ships’, at Robert Burns Centre Film Theatre, Dumfries, 20 & 27 July 1991.
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Flyer for The Paper Boat in Dumfries, 20-28 July 1991.
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Article in Update, no 16, August 1991, p 6, newsletter for ICI Films Dumfries Works.
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Poster for Estuary: some art currents around the Lower Clyde, by George Wyllie and others, at Hillhead Library, Glasgow, 8 September-1 November 1990.
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'Part of Antwerp' programme of events for Stad aan de Stroom (The City and the River project), July-October 1990 including the paper boat; poster (in Dutch) for paper boat events in Antwerp, 20-24 September 1990.
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Invitation to private view on 21 November 1990 of The Dark Side of the Moon at Benjamin Rhodes Gallery, London, 22 November-21 December 1990.
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George Wyllie Scul?ture Jubilee, 1966-1991: exhibition at Third Eye Centre, Glasgow, 4 May - 2 June 1991: catalogue; posters; Third Eye Centre Mayfest programme.
Press reviews in Cuttings book 7 (T-WYL 11/7)
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Invitation to private view on 11 July 1991, programme and poster for George Wyllie Scul?ture Jubilee, 1966-1991: exhibition at Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester, 12 July-26 August 1991.
[Later exhibited at Gracefield Arts Centre, Dumfries, 7 September-13 October 1991 and Crawford Arts Centre, St Andrews.]
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Strathfest '92: Upper Donside Community Trust programme, June 1992; Gordon Forum for the Arts, Arts Diary leaflet, May & June 1992. Includes information on exhibition, talk and workshop by George Wyllie and Kenny Munro.
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Programme for Let’s do it ’92: Youth Culture Week at Auslandsinstitut, Dortmund, Germany, 29 June-3 July 1992.
Press cutting in Cuttings Book 7 (T-WYL 11/7)
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Flyer for Temple for a Tree: installation in Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh, August-September 1992; entry form for Write a Poem for a Tree competition.
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Poster for Europe in Portsmouth: a celebration of communities, 19 September – 18 December 1992.
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Poster for Lux Europae, 22 October 1992 - 5 January 1993.
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Triennale di Milano 18th international exhibition, 6 February-3 May 1992: programme [in English]; poster for exhibition at Tron Kirk, Edinburgh, 23 November – 12 December 1992, and Kelvingrove Art Galleries and Museum, Glasgow, 18 December 1992 – 17 January 1993.
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Leaflet describing the Islay and Jura Spiral Project: exhibition at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow, 5-21 March 1993.
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Poster and flyer for The Voyages of the Paper Boat: play at Tron Kirk, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, 23-28 August 1993; ticket for performance at Tron Theatre [Glasgow], June 1993.
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Ayr Arts Festival programme.
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Poster for The Voyages of the Paper Boat: play at Borderline Theatre, Ayr, 7 June [1994].
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Poster for Scul?ture and the Synergetic Cycle at Lillie Art Gallery, Milngavie, 6-27 November 1993.
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Catalogue and flyer for A very Merry Christmas exhibition at Demarco European Art Foundation, Edinburgh, 4-24 December 1993.
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Booklet and posters for Fearful Symmetry and Blake’s Bike exhibition held at Rebecca Hossack Gallery and Sculpture Garden, London, 17 October-17 December 1994 and at St James’ Church, Piccadilly, London, 7 November-10 December 1994.
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Poster for Calanais: the Atlantic Stones, An Lanntair Gallery, Stornoway 10th anniversary touring exhibition, by George Wyllie and others, 15 April-1 July 1995.
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Poster for exhibition at St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral, Glasgow, 29 April-20 May 1995.
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Poster for A Voyage round a Safety-Pin: play at Citizen’s Stalls Studio Theatre, [Glasgow], 20-24 May [1996].
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Display boards, poster and flyer for The Bosun's Pipe, City of Portsmouth Gallery, 16-30 July 1996, and Voyages in a Paper Boat lecture/ performances/ workshops, 23-25, 30 July 1996.
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Poster for Bovine Sculptural Experiment, unknown location, [1996?].
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Poster for Outside Art at Central Queen Street Garden, Edinburgh, 10-31 August 1996.
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Poster for Catch the Moments as they Fly: international contemporary art in the spirit of Robert Burns at Gracefield Studio, Dumfries, 6 July-28 September 1996.
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Poster for Plate Show II at Lochgelly Centre, 23 November – 20 December 1996.
[Plates decorated by artists and personalities, to raise funds to rebuild Bosnia. Not known if George Wyllie contributed to this project.]
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Poster composed and signed by George Wyllie.
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Poster for Zywe Archiwum (Living Archives) ‘Under Offer’: installation at Demarco European Art Foundation, Edinburgh, 21 September 1997.
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Poster for The Kerrera Saga: play at James Arnott Theatre, University of Glasgow, 16-18 June [1998].
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Poster illustrated with drawing of George Wyllie’s bicycle for Manchester Bike Week, 12-20 June 1999.
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Printed note from an online catalogue for Air and Stone – and all that’s in between: exhibition held at Rebecca Hossack Gallery and Sculpture Garden, London, 19 April-22 May 1999.
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Poster for Dialogues at the Matthew Gallery: sound, art, installation, video, performance at University of Edinburgh, Department of Architecture and Faculty of Music, 9 August – 3 September 1999.
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Invitation to private view on 14 February 2002 and photograph of George Wyllie at Resurgam Revisited: eightieth birthday exhibition held at Rebecca Hossack Gallery and Sculpture Garden, London, 14 February-9 March 2002
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Illustrated catalogue and DVD for The Cosmic Voyage: exhibition held at Collins Gallery, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, 27 August-8 October 2005.
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Poster signed 'The Lecht, September 2007, George Wyllie 2008' and flyer for official unveiling of sculpture by George Wyllie, Lecht Ski Centre, 22 September 2007.
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Poster for Brave Art, Society of Scottish Artists, 18 King Street, Glasgow, 27 April-18 May [19 ].
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Poster for Scul?ture in Stirling University grounds, 28 May-12 June [19 ]. With, ‘Surfaces of Stirling’ photographic exhibition by Murray Johnston in Foyer; also Sir Robin Philipson in Main Gallery.
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Poster for Equation at Demarco European Art Foundation, Edinburgh, 22 March-6 April [1997].
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Poster for Scul?ture at Sea at An Lanntair Gallery, Stornoway, 26 November [1988]-7 January [1989].
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Poster for Putting Sculpture on the Map: an exhibition of work by members of the Federation of Scottish Sculptors at Talbot Rice Art Centre, University of Edinburgh, 6 October-3 November [1984].
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Poster for ‘Hands Off!’ exhibition at Crawford Centre for the Arts, St Andrews, 5 July-18 August [1985].
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Directional poster for exhibition in unknown location [New Beginnings exhibition at Demarco European Cultural Institute, 1996?].
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Poster for Edinburgh International Film Festival, 12-27 August 1989. [It is not known whether George Wyllie took part in this festival.]
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Includes exhibition flyers, invitations to previews, postcards and leaflets.
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Poster for exhibition at the Islay Festival, 28 May [1993].
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‘Surrealism – A Personal View’, lecture to the Orkney Arts Society, Kirkwall Library, 17 November 1983; special talk to full-time fine art students at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, in co-ordination with the British Council, San San Campus, 22 February 1993; ‘George Wyllie and Scul?ture’, a one day workshop and lecture for students at the Bartlett School of Architecture, 11 June 1993; ‘There is no Sanity Clause’: Christmas lecture at the an Lanntair Arts Centre, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, 17 December 1992; ‘Aspects of Scottish Sculpture’, a talk at the Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, 22 July [year not stated]; ‘An evening with George Wyllie: performance, lecture and tour as devised by the artist’, Crawford Arts Centre, St Andrews, 15 January [year not stated]; talk on Scul?ture and other aspects of Wyllie’s work at Saltcoats Town Hall, 22 March [year not stated]; ‘Art in the Park: celebrate Mayfest with George Wyllie and the Saltire Society’, Glasgow Botanic Gardens, 11 May [year not stated]; ‘Locomotive Immortality: the pataphysical approach to arch!tecture’ [date, year and venue not stated]; ‘Corrupting the Young’: hand-painted poster for a performance and lecture at the ‘Mac Lec Theatre’ [date and year not stated]; untitled talk about his work, to be delivered as part of a festival at the Granary [date, year and town not stated]; untitled, free talk about his work, to be delivered in the drama studio [date, town and venue not stated].
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Exhibition catalogues, press releases, press cuttings, correspondence, project notes, sketches, leaflets and postcards relating to several of Wyllie's projects.
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Correspondence, exhibition catalogues, press releases and documents; also sketch of Scotland, possibly by Richard Demarco.
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Correspondence and documents, tourist leaflets, postcards, press cuttings, conference programme, map and song book.
Contents include: manuscript document on Tom Mix; programme for 10th International Sculpture Conference, May-June 1978; Abington Art Center Sculpture Garden leaflets; Worcester Art Museum guides, 1983 and calendars, 1993 and 1995; Historical map of the USA; ‘Nights on the Range’ songbook.
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Typescripts, sketches, correspondence, and press releases.
Contents include: Air and Stone, 1999; The Bosun’s Pipe, Portsmouth exhibition, 1996; i on the Truth of Stone, 1995; Paper Boat, 1995; Equilibrium – ‘an’ a’ that’, 1996; Burd witnessing a Bicycle Accident; Boxed Spire; Thoughts on Hiroshima, 1986; George Wyllie’s Americana, 1986; Christmas Day down a Gold Mine, 1985; Notes on George Wyllie by George Melly; Scul?ture, 1981; The Paper Boat in New York, 1990; Pittenweem Festival, 1988; Scul?ture at Sea, 1987; Note on George Wyllie exhibition by Debbie Butler; Translations of Irish place names; Sketch and assembly notes on Bennie Railplane, 1995; Sketches and notes on sculptures for Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London, 1995; Notes for exhibition at Hendersons Gallery, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, August 1980.
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Funding bids, correspondence, workshop and project notes, sketches, leaflets, press releases. Manuscript notes and typescripts.
Contents: Argyll and Bute’s ‘Vital Sparks’, June 2000. 2 pp (2 copies); Seven ‘Vital Sparks’, September 1999. 2 pp; The Monarch of Auchmountain Glen (incomplete), [1999-2000?]; The Inverclyde Crystal, July 1999. 2 pp; ‘The Macmillan Bikes’ and ‘An Assembly of Scarecrows’ at Finlaystone in Langbank, 1997. 2 pp; Just in Case [Safety Pin], 1996. 12 pp; A New Broom for the Northern Quarter, Manchester. Invitation card 7 June [19 ]; Launching ‘The Launch’, Govan Fair, 1999: press release; The ‘Whinhill Witness’, [1998]; Forget-me-Knots: proposal and sketch, 1997. 4 pp; The City of Edinburgh declares its Attachment to Commonwealth 97; A Voyage round a Safety-Pin, Just in Case and Forget-me-Knot, [1997]; The Bosun’s Pipe, with list of ships’ names, 1998; The Pompey Spire, 1996. MS note; Thirty-two Spires, 1991. 3 pp, also version dated January 1994. 4 pp, and Update of synopsis, April 1994; Sox across the Sea: a Scul?tural Letter to America, November 1995. 3 pp; The Quarry Brae Ideal Home Show, [19 ]; Hiroshima: manuscript notes with sketch, [1995?]. 3 pp; Boxed Spire: manuscript notes with photograph, September 1994. 2 pp; Advert for ‘Flight into Europe’ workshop event, Portsmouth, 1994 – booklet; Seven Spires on Lewis, November 1988. 3 pp; The Alternative Christmas, 1995: fax from Demarco European Art Foundation; Stromness Academy project: letter and photocopies of work from children’s surrealist project, May 2004. 18 pp; Straw Locomotive: a sculpture by George Wyllie: site reading: British art in public spaces, by Bridget Green? [19 ]. 4 pp; Circus Gold, 1988; Exhibition following from Milan Triennale, December 1992: notes (2 pp) and letter from Gillespies, Glasgow, September-December 1992; Dear Green Helicopter, 1990; Speug [Sparrow], [1991]; Islay and Jura Spiral Project: leaflets, manuscript and typescript notes (6 pp), press release, photocopy of published text on traditional dyeing methods, 1992-1993; The Seven Fishbones of Wisdom, with sketches, February 1995. 2 pp; Strathclyde Regional Council, Department of Education, Glasgow Division, Visit of Berlin students to Glasgow: programme, June 1989; For the Bicentenary, University of Strathcyde, 1996; When the Stanes come Marching in [March of the Standing Stones]: press release, correspondence, sketches, manuscript and typescript notes (6 pp), 1985; A Church for an Invented God who was there all the time, and, The Rock Trap, 1982. 2 pp; Temple for a Tree, Edinburgh Festival, 1992; Fearful Symmetry, October 1994; ‘Glasgow Style’ goes to Amsterdam, October 1987. 2 pp; Service of thanksgiving and dedication, St John’s Kirk, Perth, 22 May 1994: order of service and notes for readings; Arrivals and Sailings... the Funnels are coming! April 1988. 3 pp; The May-Day May-Day Parade, July 1987; Glasgow Speug in Danger, 1991; McPherson Drive Sports-Aid sponsored run, May 1986; Glasgow’s ‘Condom Tower’ sketch, 1992; The Truce Goose: manuscript and typescript notes, [19 ]. 2 pp; Storm, 1995; Vigorous Resuscitation, April 1994 [2 cards covered in aluminium foil]; The Harris Tweed Drifter, December 1992.
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Design notes and sketches, cv, lists of expenses.
Contents include: Scul?ture jubilee, 1991; A Day down a Gold Mine: the book, 1987; A Machine for the Equal Distribution of Wealth – sketch and assembly notes; A Day down a Gold Mine: performance at Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh, August 1985; Robinson Crusoe nearly slept here, with sketch of palm tree; George Wyllie’s thoughts on visiting Hiroshima; The Beuys Spire site on Rannoch Moor; Sketch and notes on Serpentine Gardens installation; Holyrood; McPherson Drive ‘Sports-Aid’ sponsored run, 1986.
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T-WYL/7/6/1: Two folders containing design notes, funding bid to TSWA 3D [Television South West and South West Arts], correspondence, sketches, news items and texts of speech. Includes photograph of real locomotive being transported from Springburn to Glasgow Docks, [1950s?]: black and white; 195 mm (h) x 240 mm (w), mounted on card.
T-WYL/7/6/2: Straw locomotive: engine plate, 1 plaque: brass effect; 145 mm (h) x 195 mm (w),
Inscribed ‘Born 4th May 1987, died 22nd June 1987. “Sadly missed”’.
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Notes, correspondence, press releases and cuttings, street plan, post cards and tourist information.
[On Berlin Spire and Circus Gold]
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Series of project files relating to the 'Paper Boat'.
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Design notes, drawings, funding bid, invoices, correspondence, press releases and cuttings, Clydeport maps and documents, tide tables, photographs, fabric samples, arrangements for launch by Lady Naomi Mitchison on 6 May 1989, Paper Boat letterheaded paper.
File 1. Funding bid etc., 1989.
File 2. Fabric samples, Clydeport documents, 1989.
File 3. Drawings etc., 1989.
File 4. Launch, tide tables, leaflet on Denny Ship Model Experiment Tank, 1989.
File 5. Liverpool, including wallet of 21 colour photographs 110 mm (h) x 150 mm (w), & 8 more annotated colour photographs, 1989.
File 6. London, 1989.
File 7. New York, including invoices, street maps, tourist leaflets and 3 colour photographs of New York, 250mm (h) x 200 mm (w), 1990.
File 8. Antwerp, 1990.
File 9. Worldwide, including sketch entitled ‘Worldwide cruising’, press cutting about the liner, Queen Mary on the river Clyde, and miscellaneous notes, including Glasgow launch of the Paper Boat.
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Handwritten text and water colour sketches to accompany Paper Boat sculpture project. Includes booklet (28 pp.) plus draft version in loose sheets (29 pp.) plus photocopy with additional original sheets, in loose sheets (32 pp.). Small variants in text and composition over the different copies.
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Designs and notes.
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Handwritten, with water colour sketches.
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The MacGillivray Walk, May 25-August 29, 1996 [the erection of 7 spires at Fochabers, Forres, Foyers, Beauly, Kinlochewe, Poolewe and Harris, to commemorate a journey from Aberdeen to Harris by William MacGillivray in 1817]. Includes notes, transcripts from MacGillivray’s diary, and 25 colour photographs, various sizes.
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Proposals, design notes, sketches, colour photographs, press cutting, invoices, street plan.
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Sketches, exhibition notes, correspondence, colour and black and white photographs of various sizes, poster, postcard, press cuttings, article about Neil Munro.
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Project notes, sketches, correspondence, notes of meetings, colour and black and white photographs, various sizes, press cuttings, brochure on Clyde Waterfront Regeneration Strategy, July 2003, leaflet on Waterbus services, draft Crystal Ship Feasibility Study by Mott MacDonald, August 2003 and incomplete version, also synopsis, notes and photographs for Crystal Ship film.
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Sketches, correspondence, 9 colour photographs, various sizes, documents relating to Inverclyde Arts Foundation, tourist leaflets and photocopies from published histories of the area.
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Files on miscellaneous topics, activities and inspirations. Includes correspondence, press cuttings, articles, brochures, handwritten notes, flyers, invitations, leaflets, poems, sketches and programmes. The titles of the files are those assigned by Wyllie.
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Correspondence and documents, books, press cuttings and articles, brochures.
Contents include: Correspondence with Elspeth King, Director, Stirling Smith Art Gallery and Museum, February-April 1997 re purchase of ‘Breaking the Habit’, with uncashed cheque; HMS Argonaut reunion press cutting; Title page of ‘Improvising and arranging for the modern accordianist’ by J H Sedlon, Book 2. London: Scarth, [19 ] (Photocopy); George Wyllie’s Commission in HM Customs and Excise, 28 April 1948 (photocopy); Children’s book in Greek, 1981; ‘New ukelele method’, by J Mace Wolff. Chicago: Cole, [19 ], with letter from Lorna ..., Dunoon, undated; Paper aeroplane; Faxed copy of ‘Harlem Nocturne’, 1994; Marine insurance policy: cargo and freight, Phoenix, Greek General Insurance Co. SA, Athens, 13 September 1975; Blank application form for Official Travel Document of World Government, issued by World Service Authority, Basle, Switzerland, undated, 2 pp; Advert for Hare Krishna Festival at Bellshill Community Centre, 25 April 1993; Concert programme, unknown place and date (photocopy); Certificate: George Wyllie sworn in as Deputy Sheriff of Calton Creek, signed by Lobey Dosser [cartoon character in Glasgow newspaper], undated; Greek language newspaper, 1981; Letter from St Albans Organ Museum re recordings, 31 October 1977, 2 pp; Holyrood postcards etc, c 1979; Advertisement for Paris International Boat Show, 3-13 December 1993; Instructions to build ‘Simpleton Too’, a 7 ft prawn dinghy, reproduced from ‘Yachts and yachting’ (poor condition); Press cutting on Roedean School sports; Preliminary interior scheme for living/ dining, MS notes and sketches for Wyllie’s home in Gourock, 3 pp; Flying aces [short story], July 1937; Take the children, by Dorothy N King. New York: Morrow, 1945, 26 pp [children’s picture book]; Brochure on Royston Road parks, Royston Road Project, 2002, 79 pp, with letter from Ruth Gillett, Glasgow.
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Brief quotations from various sources, some handwritten, also longer extracts from printed works.
Subjects include: Plato; Tim Beaumont’s gleanings, 2002; Shamanism; Adventures of Robinson Crusoe; Aristotle; Reconquest of Caithness by Earl Harald; The Viking gene etc.
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Correspondence and documents, advertisements for lectures by George Wyllie, exhibition programmes, flyers and invitations, conference programme, photographs, tourist leaflets.
Contents include: Notes on An Leabhar Mor/ The Great Book of Gaelic project, 2002; Colour photographs of statue of John Barry in Wexford, Ireland, 2002; Colour photographs of gold mine in Victoria, Australia and Certificate of Miner’s Rights; Sketch, ticket and price list for the Bay Club, Gourock, 1963; Polythene bag for Caithness air.
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Correspondence, sketches, press cuttings and articles, leaflets of tourist and general interest.
Contents include: The nature of the Lordship [of the Isles], source and date unknown, 2pp (photocopy), with Sketch of ‘The Stones of Scotland’, May 2000; The strange case of Richard Demarco, by Giles Sutherland, 'Etudes Ecossaises', no 6, [19 ], pp 47-56 (photocopy); Extract on Joseph Beuys, source and date unknown; The biology of art, 'Economist', 3 April 1999, pp 93-95; A tragic treasure: sinking of the [ship] Akka in 1956, 'Scotsman', 3 March 2001; Leaflet on Cairngorm reindeer herd, August 1979, 4 pp; Glasgow Eastern Necropolis Heritage Trail, [19 ], 9 pp (Photocopy); Orwell’s England, National Theatre, [19 ], 11 pp; Addiction, by John Collee, 'Observer', [19 ], p 54; Trees for towns: extract, source and date unknown, 4 pp; 'Sacred trees in Scottish folklore', part 1, by Tess Darwin, 'Reforesting Scotland', no 10, Spring 1994, pp 8-10, with, 'Hisøy: a forest on the edge', by Brendan Hill, pp 23-26, and, 'The radical rowan': newsletter for members of Reforesting Scotland, no 6, March 1994, 4 pp; Leaflet on British hallmarks, Birmingham, Assay Office, [19 ], 12 pp; 'Vikings to blame for Scottish national dish', [19 ]; Letter from Ian Yeomans, London, 11 February 1982, endorsed ‘ Refers to HMS Edinburgh’; Eric Hoffer: the true believer [on Bartlesville Community Center, Oklahoma, USA], [19 ], 6 pp; Will of John Anderson, founding Anderson’s University, 7 May 1795, University of Strathclyde, [1996], 2 pp; MS notes of funnel colours of shipping companies trading to the Port of Glasgow up to around 1960; Extract from ‘The islands of Scotland’ by MacDiarmid, c 1939, 3 pp (Poor quality photocopy); Letter from Springburn Academy, Glasgow seeking support for Technology Exchange Visit to Washington DC in June 1997, 4 pp; UFA Fabrik Berlin, 2 pp, with leaflet on Circus Festival [in German], c 1994, 8 pp; Letter from Mary Aitkenhead, Oldham to 'Scots Magazine', October 1993, p 434, suggesting similarities between Scots and Greek words; Poster on history of the Stock Exchange, London, [19 ]; Keepers of the flame, by Mark Singer, 'New Yorker', 3 June 1991, pp 89-103 [on Tom Mix]; Fax from Neil Baxter Associates, Edinburgh on Latin phrases, 13 August 1996; Poster on the George Bennie railplane, [19 ]; Printed list of second hand booksellers in Glasgow and Edinburgh, [19 ], 2 pp; Six days in Ancient China through the eyes of a 19 year old girl travelling alone, by Emma ...., August-September 1998, with sketches of terracotta warriors, 15 pp; 'A tax on economic pollution', by Liam McDougall, 'Big Issue in Scotland', 20-26 April 2000, pp 22-23; Guru without credit, by Erlend Clouston, 'Sunday Times', 28 November 1999 [on Clifford Douglas and theory of social credit] (photocopy); Roman numerals [19 ]; Notes on calligraphy, by Barbara Bundy, 1984, 8 pp; 'Wilderness and the Wes't, by T H Watkins, unknown source and date, pp 324-329 [on conservation in USA], endorsed ‘Beuys was in tune with this stuff’; 'Ten thousand artists, not one master', by Satish Kumar, in 'Conversations before the end of time', by Suzi Gablik, Thames & Hudson, 1997, pp 133-154 (photocopy), endorsed ‘George, a synergic discussion!? Kenny’; Collection of articles from 'Scots Magazine'; Photograph of Demarco and colleagues in Edinburgh, [19 ]; A parbuckle: definition and sketches, [19 ]; Strategy Get Arts, Edinburgh International Festival 1970, by Cordelia Oliver, 3 pp; Cartouche from Laurie’s New chart of the Windward Passages and Bahama Islands ... by John Purdy, London, Holmes, Laurie, 1864; Cartoons re Inuit, [19 ], 2 pp; Leaflet on Eden Project, [19 ]; 'A garden to dye for', by Nick Ibbotson, unknown source and date, pp 89-92 [on natural dyes]; Press cutting re SS Persia, unknown source and date; Press cutting on Chernobyl fallout, Herald, 4 March 2003; Machrihanish: end of a dream, by Tim Wander, 'Ham Radio Today', August 1987, pp 19-22, with, Notes on Fessenden of Machrihanish, 3 pp, and, Mackinnon of Balinakill, 4 pp, and, Post card from Donald Kelly, Muasdale, Argyll, 17 June 2001; Cart Blanche: minutes of meeting held on 22 January 2003 [refers to River Cart, Glasgow]; Letter from Northlands Festival, 11 October 2001, 6 pp; Joseph Kosuth recent works: exhibition flyer, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, September-October 1987; Press cutting on redevelopment of Greenock Rope Works, 'Greenock Telegraph', 8 February 2003; 'Footprints in the shifting sand', by Oona Strathern, 'Observer', 10 March 1991, p 69 [on Arthur Rimbaud in Ethiopia]; 'Foul deeds of desecration', by Bernard Levin, 'Times', 6 June 1988 [on a Maori head]; 'Why it is futile to try to cure the malaise in Ulster’s heart', by Patrick Reilly, 'Herald', 26 July 1999; 'Cybernetic paradise that has become hell of the rat race', by Pat Reilly, Herald, 31 January 2000; 'Malevolent vision of a hated war criminal', by Ian Bell, 'Scotsman', 27 December 1996 [on Radovan Karadzic]; Press cuttings on modern art, 2001-2002; Article on vegetarianism, by Anvar Khan, unknown source and date; Press cuttings on Jools Holland, 'Observer', 7 April 2002 and Tam Cowan, unknown source and date.
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Correspondence, poems, project notes and sketches, testimonials, press cuttings and articles, quotations, programmes and flyers for exhibitions, theatre productions and restaurants.
Contents include: Sourcing the Clyde project, March 1996; Song notebook of Annie C Brockley [words of mainly Scottish songs]; Guide to St James Church, Piccadilly, London; manuscript notes on Paper Boat components, [1989?], 2 pp; manuscript notes on Lanarkshire trees, [19 ], 3 pp; Biographical notes on artists, scientists and patrons, possibly relating to a lecture by Richard Demarco, [19 ], 8 pp; Press cuttings on [Glasgow] Concert Hall murals protest, 1990; Leaflet on Red Cross Centre, 'Irvine, Architects’ Journal', 9 September 1992, 6 pp, with manuscript notes on garden sculptures; Note on Fred Bushe, January 1982; Note on Dennis Shields, May 1996, 2 pp; Press cutting 1992 and post card 1998 re Jenny Geddes, St Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh; Notes on George Wyllie by George Melly, for 'Christmas Day down a Gold Mine at Brentford', [1984]; Poem for opening of Glasgow Art Club Christmas Show, December 1997, 2 pp; Bumper Dragon, December 1974; Leaflet on Queen Street Station [Glasgow] Catering Complex, Clyde Bar, [19 ]; manuscript notes and sketches of Cape Sounien [?], September 1981, 3 pp; Henry David Thoreau as a source for artistic inspiration: exhibition notes, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA, USA, June-September 1984, 4 pp; Draft Constitution for Demarco European Cultural Institute, October 1996; Press cuttings re Bill Williams and ‘Artwork’, 1994; ‘The Man of Straw’, July 1991; 'Just in Case', February 1996; A small Scottish monument, February 1992; Ubiquitous Chip, Glasgow: menus [19 ]; Portsmouth exhibition, July 1996; The ‘Norse background’ to the Govan hogbacks [grave stones], by Barbara E Crawford, unknown source and date, pp 103-112, 127 (photocopy); 'What else could a Viking do?' [poem], [19 ]; Demarco, October 1998; The Dilemma: quotations, unknown source and date; Miro, by Harold Rosenberg, New Yorker, 12 November 1973, 2pp (photocopy); Light is like water, unknown source and date, 4 pp (photocopy); 'The Bosun’s Pipe', 1998, with published list of ships entering dock at Greenock from 1939-1945, [by Alexander Kidd], [19 ], 3 pp (photocopy); manuscript notes and sketch of Glasgow’s ‘Condom Tower’, 1992; Letter to Glasgow City Council in support of 'New Beginnings' Project, 11 November 1991; 32 Spires for Hibernia, 1994, 3 pp; Exhibition of paintings by the late Thomas M R Caldwell; Review by George Wyllie of Stomu Yamashta’s ‘Iroha’ life of change, Holland Park Theatre, London, September 1981, 2 pp; Gracefield Arts Centre programme, October 1991-April 1992, 6 pp; Burrell’s neglected neighbour, by Murdo Macdonald, 'Scotsman', 25 September 1989; Information on song entitled ‘The Titanic’s disaster’, [19 ]; Sartre and Camus: extract from thesis by Cindy Crisp, [19 ], x pp; 'MacTotem: reviewing the Duke of Sutherland monument': project publicity and ‘Take off...’: note by George Wyllie, 1998; 'Poles apart on lightning field', by Walter De Maria, Horizon, April 1978, p 84; Jarry and ‘Pataphysics’, [19 ]; Done to a ‘T’, [19 ], 2 pp; Sketch for a spire, May 1998; Extract from ‘The mirror of the sea’, unknown source and date, pp 30-31 (photocopy); ‘The Maydaze Pigeon’, 1998; Desert island tapes, 1990, 2 pp [on Gruinard]; Joseph Beuys, by Craig Richardson, [19 ]; ‘The Bike Show’ at Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh: press release, [19 ]; You – the city, by Fiona Templeton, London International Festival of Theatre, 1989: programme; Armorial insignia of the City of Glasgow: illustrated leaflet; The Millennium Blister, August/September 1997, 2 pp; ‘Cloudwalk no 5’, December 1997, 3 pp; In the Doubtful Beginning, [19 ], 2 pp; 'Impossible Beginnings', July 1997; [Birds], [19 ], 2 pp; 'On midges', [19 ] (photocopy); 'on the Truth of Stone', January 1995; Peisthetaerus, [19 ]; Clach-grian [poem], [19 ]; The Pin Song – ‘A Stone is a stone...’, [19 ]; The Biplane [poem], [19 ]; Leaflets on Patrick Geddes events, 1997-1998; Gracefield Arts Centre programme, April-October 1991, 6 pp; On enhancement by adjectives, [19 ], 2 pp; 'The birds have a tough time in Gourock' [manuscript poem], [19 ]; Quotations re Robert Burns; John Masefield ‘Sea fever’ [poem] (photocopy); 'Ravens!' [MS and typescript extract from epic Serbian folk poem, 1999], 11 pp; I am a horse [poem, author unknown][19 ]; 'Robin' [poem, author unknown][19 ]; 'Kaspar is dead' [poem, author unknown][19 ]; 'On civil disobedience', January 1999, 2 pp; Notes on Neil Munro, from Information Centre, Inveraray, [19 ], 2 pp [poor quality]; ‘The Spire’, [19 ]; article on Corpach from ‘The cultivated wilderness’, by Paul Shepheard, [19 ], pp 88-99 (photocopy); 'A Canary with its Foot caught in a Girder', 1998; 'The Inverclyde Crystal', [1999?]; Arts Council of England: leaflet, 1998? 6 pp; Anti-Robert Burns Club, [19 ]; 'Just in Case', August 1997; The ‘Whinhill Witness’: text and press cuttings, 1998
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Articles and press cuttings, tourist leaflet and exhibition programme.
Contents include: Biographical notes on Richard Demarco, c 1996, 2 pp; Laurel and Hardy press cutting, unknown source and date; Leaflet on Christ’s Chapel, Oral Roberts University, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA, 1978, 6 pp; Letter from L’Annexe du College de Pataphysique, London, 7 November 1994, 2 pp [on Blake’s Bike]; Press cuttings on opening of Macdonald’s Restaurant in Greenock, February 1997; Sunderland Arts Centre programme, 29 November-22 December [19 ]; 'The British gentleman', by John Masters, with cartoon by Ronald Searle, unknown source and date; 'Tidy up and atrophy', by Paul Jennings, 'Daily Telegraph', 13 December 1974; Press release on Living Art exhibition, D M Vaughan Accountants, Edinburgh, 10-17 May 1991; 'The Waldorf-Astoria clock', by Geoffrey S Bullard and Nahum H Lewis, 'Bulletin of the National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors Inc', vol 25:6, no 227, December 1983, pp 675-685 (photocopy); Press cuttings on clocks, kitchen ranges, Oriental script, and Chinese funeral in Gourock, 1986;' Joseph Beuys (supposing he hadn’t died)': questionnaire signed on his behalf by George Wyllie, 1990?; Louise’s [George Wyllie’s daughter] version of The art of the family: press cutting on the Mynott family, annotated to apply to the Wyllies, [19 ]; Press release from Goethe-Institut, Glasgow, 30 August 1985; 'The proof of the mince pie', by Tom Leonard, 'Scottish International', 1975? pp 20-23; 'Hoklakia', by John Hope, Crafts, July/August 1975, pp 13-15 [on pebble mosaics]; Drawings of teachers’ belts (photocopy); Press cutting on paper boat built by Elisabeth McKay, Brechin, Press and Journal, 3 July 1996
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Correspondence, articles and press cuttings on David Hume, Adam Smith and the Scottish Enlightenment.
Contents include: 'Let there be light': Jim Gilchrist on a new Enlightenment, 'Scotsman', 27 February 1999, p 13; 'Her man in Scotland': the Adam Smith Institute, by Ian Bell, 'Observer Scotland', 5 February 1989, p 7; Correspondence with Hyundai Securities (Europe) Ltd re research on Adam Smith, November 1997, 4 pp; Certified copy of the Last Will and Testament of David Hume Esq, 15 April 1776, 5 pp (Photocopy of printed version); Letter from Adam Smith, Kirkcaldy to William Strahan, 9 November 1776, 7 pp, on David Hume (Photocopy of printed version); Press cuttings on Adam Smith, from 'Scotsman', 19 May 1988, Herald, 10 February & 31 July 1989, & 14 July 1990, and 'Independent on Sunday', 13 March 1994; Faxed information from Kenny Munro on Thomas Muir of Huntershill, 7 November 1998; Trafalgar House Offshore Fabrications Ltd Adam Smith Lecture by Donald MacKay, with Biographical notes on Donald Iain MacKay, [c 1993], 8 pp (Photocopy); Review of ‘Crisis of the democratic intellect’, by George Davie, by Murdo Macdonald, 'University of Edinburgh Bulletin', 1980?; 'Adam Ferguson and the idea of community', by Duncan Forbes, undated, 2 pp.
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Typescripts, book review, articles, poetry postcards, press cuttings, poems in Scots and English, a few by George Wyllie but mostly by other writers.
Contents include: 'Come in ahint', by W D Cocker; 'Boy in the Train', by Mary Campbell Smith; 'Smokey Mountain', by Norman Bissett; 'String theory', by Tessa Ransford; 'Revocation', by DARF, 1955; 'Royston', by George Wyllie; 'The drunken boat'; 'Kaspar is dead'; 'Sketch of ‘Crystal Ship’' by George Wyllie; 'Open the Doors', by Edwin Morgan; 'Tyger, Tyger... Eleanor’s poem'; 'The Star o’ Rabbie Burns'; 'Ulysses'; 'Miss Kilmansegg and her precious Leg'; Letter and poems from Kendric Ross, 1999; Poems by Margaret Tait; 'A wee Multitude of Questions for George Wyllie', 1996 [by Liz Lochhead]; Homage to George Rickey sculpture at Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, by Jerry Peyton, c 1989; 'Flower of the Stone', by George Mackay Brown, endorsed ‘Montpellier 1996’, with letter on verso from Kenny [Munro], April 2001; 'Over my rainbow: rhymes and pictures', by Alice Berry, 2001, booklet, 36 pp, with manuscript notes; 'Freedom come-all-ye', by Hamish Henderson; 'The Bones of Columba'; 'Nuspeak 8', by Edwin Morgan; Poster poem by Adrian Henri, Tate Gallery Liverpool, May 1991; Poems by Robert Garioch, with letter to George Wyllie from K Roberts, Foulis Easter, 1992; 'Light', by Hayden Murphy, 1991-1992; 'A Day we won’t forget', by Rachel Linn [on Dunblane massacre]; 'Shared roses': poster poem by Hayden Murphy, 1991, inscribed ‘For George and Daphne’; 'Tones of Destiny, in memory of Sorley Maclean': programme and note, 28 November 1996; Kenny Munro 1st Academy exhibition of the Open Air, Caltonhill [Edinburgh], August 1996; 'White Stone of Lewis', by Tessa Ransford; 'Where go the Boats?' by Robert Louis Stevenson; Poems and correspondence from Ian Stephen, referring to McGillivray Walk, with 2 colour photographs; 'Apparitions from a Train', by Neil Jones, with letter from George Wyllie to Neil Jones, September 1981; Stirling Gallery Christmas cards and poems; 'See ma maw and oor hoose', and 'Big Wullie', by Donald Harley; 'Vermeer' by Tessa Ransford, August 1984; 'Downstream [for George Wyllie]', by Shona Morrison?; Scottish Poetry Library fact sheet; 'One day I spilled my dole of rice', by Nguyen Chi Thien (Vietnam); 'A poem for George Wyllie' from Robert McDowell, 1994; 'The Phoenix', by George Wyllie, 1997 [on Royston steeple]; 'Angel of Morningside', by Norman Bissett; Poetry postcards and press cuttings; 'In my bones', by Tessa Ransford, 2003; 'Years', by Hayden Murphy; MS poem ‘A salmon speaks to all Glasgow’; 'Thoughts on Norfolk', by Alice Berry, 1999; 'To a mouse', by Robert Burns; 'For W S Graham', by George Mackay Brown; 'Music of tune ‘Vem kan segla’', with covering letter, writer unknown; 'Flask of dreams', by Alan Boyce, 1999; 'The little white rose, by Hugh MacDiarmid', 1992; 'Sense data: new science poems', by John Burnside and others; 'Wonderment of wonder', translated from Rilke’s original by Tessa Ransford.
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Extracts and quotations from works by other writers, and sketches, mostly undated.
Contents: 'Rainbow'; 'Song of the Clyde'; 'To the next past' (Kurt Vonnegut); 'Entertainment'; Aristotle; 'The Nautilus' and 'the drunken boat', by Roland Barthes; 'Le Bateau ivre'; Shamanism; Adventures of Robinson Crusoe; Plato; Caithness reconquered, 2002; Mr Micawber [Charles Dickens]; 'Resurgam', [by George Wyllie?], 1999; Of the sense of propriety; 'A Christmas Carol' [Charles Dickens]; 'Harvesting the Edge', by G F Dutton; Norse myths; 'Mitteleuropa', by Claudio Magris; Jarry: Pataphysics; Hans Vaihinger; Ecclesiastes [Bible]; Captain Hook battle [J M Barry, Peter Pan]; 'Hamlet' [Shakespeare]; 'Staying alive at work', by David Whyte; 'The Mirror of the Sea', by Joseph Conrad; Ubu; 'Meditations on a Hobby Horse', by E H Gombrich, 1963; Liberty; Robert Burns quotation.
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Manuscript and typescript documents by George Wyllie, many undated, and press cuttings.
Folder 1 contents: '50,000 gallons of fuel to convey an orange', undated manuscript, 4 pp; Review of Broodthaers exhibition at Edinburgh Festival 1977, 2 pp; 'Towards the great terminus', 1970; manuscript on computers, undated, 2 pp; Tim Stead obituary, June 2002; 'The difference [on Hiroshima]', 1986; 'Grasping a thistle: Scotland and the visual arts', October 1991, 4 pp, also photocopy from ‘Gairfish: the McAvantgarde’, 1992, pp 146-150; ‘Greenock revisited’ [on Malcolm McCoig], March 2000, review for 'Greenock Telegraph'; Letter of support for Willie Fulton concerning ‘Under one sky’ project, November 1999, with project proposal by Willie Fulton; Gordon Munro: text for exhibition catalogue, September 1999, with printed copy; 'On civil disobedience', January 1999; Sketch and manuscript Customs declaration, undated; 'Impossible beginnings': contribution by George Wyllie to ‘A Scottish childhood’, July 1997, with correspondence from N Bailey, Killearn, August 1997; 'Real, not real, undated'; Greetings: Bosun’s Pipe exhibition, Portsmouth, July 1996; Letter to the Editor, 'The Herald', Glasgow on Inverclyde development, November 1997; 'Equilibrium – an’ a’ that', undated; 'My experience of making art beyond the gallery...' February 1997, 2 pp; 'i on the truth of stone', January 1995; 'For the burds', undated, 2 pp; 'Notes on eagles', undated; Letter to the Editor, 'The Herald', Glasgow, on the People’s Palace and George Wyllie’s All-British Slap and Tickle Machine, February 1997, with press cuttings; 'Experiments under nostalgia’s umbrella': review of performance at Third Eye Centre, Glasgow, 21-22 October 1987; ‘X’ marks the spot for Demarco [on conference at DECI], undated, 3 pp; Speech to Arts and Communities Forum, Dundee, December 1995; 'Scul?ture at sea', August 1987; Press release – ‘Arrivals and sailings... the Funnels are coming', April 1988; On RGI, with sketches of fish, 1986, 4 pp; 'How Italy really won the war', 1980s; 'The Yanks are coming [on the Parade of the Missing Tourists]', 1986; George Wyllie’s ‘Corrupting the young’, undated, 6 pp; 'On Cyril Gerber', undated; 'A very good question, James', typescript, 4 pp, with printed copy from Edinburgh review, 88, pp 58-62; Letter to the Editor, 'Greenock Telegraph' on Gourock Ropeworks, August 1992 – press cutting; 'The SSA', 1989; 'A Faultfinder' [sketch], 1982; 'Consulting the parrot', undated, 2 pp; Letter to the Editor, 'The Herald', Glasgow on devolution, November 1995; 'The impossibility of empire', June 1992, 3 pp; 'Here we go again', January 1988; 'The day we went to Documenta in Kassel', June 1978; 'Kissing time in Eastern Europe', undated, 6 pp; '1996 and all that', 2 pp; 'Reason, emotion and cheap tin trays', December 1987; 'Dear Tim, dear Angus [on new Scottish Gallery]', undated, 3 pp, sent to 'Scotsman' newspaper; 'The Edinburgh International', undated; 'Govan is a village', September 1992, 2 pp, and another version, 'Govan is still a fishing village', undated, 2 pp; 'Elusion and illusion' [c 1991], 3 pp; 'The Original Earth Guarantee', printed and manuscript copies, undated; Sketch for layout of a booklet, undated; Letter to the Editor, 'The Herald', Glasgow, on Royal Scottish Academy Galleries, November 1989; 'A book that changed me', 1990, 2 pp; The SSA: presidential address, 1987; 'Balanced precariously' [on SSA exhibition], undated; 'Adam and Eve': manuscript with sketches, undated, 6 pp; 'Hawk caught in telegraph wires', with sketch, undated; 'Thoughts for days', undated, 3 pp; 'On social sculpture', October 1987; 'On the existence of non-existences?' undated manuscript, 3 pp; 'America', undated manuscript, 7 pp; 'On the people of the world', undated manuscript; 'On Richard Demarco Gallery', undated; 'On Richard Demarco', undated; Spoof letter to Barbara and Murray [Grigor], Inverkeithing, Fife, 18 December 1986; On the influences of Joseph Beuys and Jean Arp on his work, November 1986; 'Vigorous vespers, Amsterdam', undated; On Glasgow Green, undated manuscript; A book about ferries, undated manuscript notes; ‘Ladderback’ and ‘Miss Cranston slept here’, manuscript notes with sketches, 1982; 'Applaudiemaschine für Gemälde' [Applause machine for artists], undated notes in German; On the nature of art, undated; Edinburgh-Sarajevo, 1988 and 1994, February 1994; 'Strategy-get-arts archive', manuscript notes, July 1994; Draft for launching at ‘PB’ [Paper Boat] lecture, undated; Speech on R Demarco, undated manuscript, 2 pp.
Folder 2 contents: The Stones of Scotland project, January 2003; 'Divine Rhythm', August 2000 [crossed out]; 'Testimonial for Renny Nisbet re Nantes', April 1998; ‘Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, even’, [19 ]; 'The Fall', November 2001; Testimonial for Renny Nisbet re Kilmartin House, Argyll, May 2001; The Walker Hunt Memorial [inventor of the safety pin], [19 ]; 'Skylight', [19 ]; Letter to Editor of 'The Herald' on redevelopment of Gourock, 18 November 1997. 2 pp; Resurgam, June 1999; PITA-People, [19 ]; 'Synenergezetics: a bridge to being?', November 1996. 2 pp; 'Hiroshima', 1986; 'i on the Truth of Stone' [on Calanais], January 1995; ‘Fade in Bloody Death to Beauty’: manuscript poem, [19 ]; 'The Spire', November 1996. 3 pp; 'The Tweed Bike', July 2001; 'A very good Question, James.' Edinburgh Review, 88, pp 58-62 (photocopy); 'New Beginnings?', June 2002; Testimonials for Chris Carrell and Eric Wishart, July 1998; ‘I once went down to the sea again’, [19 ]; Testimonial for Karen Radford, [19 ], 3 versions; ‘A Tentative Stone for Scotland’, December 2000, several versions; letter to Editor of ‘Artwork’, [19 ]; 'A Fearful Symmetry', October 1994; ‘Skylight’, [19 ]; Obituaries for Tim Stead, July and September 2002; Testimonial for Renny Nisbet re New Delhi, April 1998; Testimonial for Dennis Connors, December 2000; 'The difference of Hiroshima', [19 ]; 'Air and Stone', 1999; ‘Seven Vital Sparks’, September 1999 and July 2001, each 2 pp; 'Why Sculpture... and why the Sculpture Trust?' [19 ]; 'Resurgam Revisited', February 2002; Letter to the Editor of 'The Herald', July 2001, on global monetary system; 'The Clackmannan Sea Chest', August 2001; 'Accommodating passion', c 2000; ‘There’s nothing more certain than uncertainty' – fragment, 1999; ‘Wrap the pianos in felt’... – fragment, [19 ]; The ‘Wee Hauf’, May 2000, 2 pp; 'What else could a Viking do?' [poem], [19 ]; 'The crystal air of Inverclyde', March 1999, 2 pp; ‘Divine Rhythm’, August 2000, with note from Dawson Murray; 'A First-foot for the Capital', December 2000 [on Stones of Scotland]; 'An analysis of mediocrity', July 2000, 4 pp; 'The Whinhill Witness', [1998]; 'A Stone is a Stone'... [manuscript document], [19 ], 2 pp; 'The Safety Pin Song' [poem], [19 ]; 'Margot Sandeman', August 2000, with exhibition catalogue; Quartz – fragment, [19 ]; 'Alternative comedy', [19 ]; 'The Cosmic Voyage', May 2005, 4 pp.
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Discussion papers, correspondence, post cards, typescript articles by other writers, journal issues, 1976-1999, with photocopies of a few earlier items.
Folder 1 Contents: Letter from Renny Nisbet, Edinburgh to George Wyllie, enclosing post cards of Nisbet’s sculpture ‘Red shift’, 1996; 'The economy of the arts: the big picture': speech by Michael D Higgins, Republic of Ireland, undated, 9 pp; 'Conclusion: towards a new aesthetic', from ‘Art, action and participation’, 1976, pp 278-281; 'Dreaming the truth': a discussion paper on the arts, Church of Scotland Church and Nation Committee, 10 pp, with letter from Church to George Wyllie, 2 September 1994, seeking views on art and faith; 'Restructuring art: are aesthetics and social responsibility compatible?' by Suzi Gablik, photocopy from unknown source, c 1991, 3 pp; 'Art for the 21st century: Joseph Beuys and the extended conception of art', by Shelley Sacks, faxed copy, 1994, 12 pp (poor quality); 'Cultural confidence' [on establishment of Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow], by Gemma Tipton, ‘Circa’ Irish arts magazine, July 1996, 3 pp; 'A Festival overture', by George Steiner, Edinburgh Festival 1996, 15 pp; 'Informing ourselves to death', by Neil Postman, 1992, 6 pp; 'The story of the last book of the rich alphabetical hours of the Chopins': exhibition notes by Henri Chopin, Third Eye Centre, Glasgow, 2-23 June 1984, 3 pp; Bill Moyers’ journal: transcript of ‘Mind at large: Adler on Aristotle’, Educational Broadcasting Corporation, 19 March 1979, 23 pp; '20th century art: a perspective out of the 1994 Edinburgh Festival', by Marion Briggs, source unknown, pp 8-9; Extract from ‘Connective aesthetics: art after individualism, by Suzi Gablik, [1992?], pp 74-87; 'Maharajah for a day', by P Boardman, from ‘Patrick Geddes in India’, edited by Jaqueline Tyrwhitt, 1947, pp 2-5, 96-103, with correspondence from William Soutar Fellowship, Perth, 10 March 1996 concerning Geddes in Perth day; 'Maharajah for a day', with covering letter from Kenny Munro, 10 December 1996; Extracts from ‘Every man his own art critic', by Patrick Geddes, 1887, pp 6-9, 24-25, and from ‘Dramatisations of history', by Patrick Geddes, 1923, pp 158-163; 'Sketch of Professor Geddes', University College, Dundee, from ‘The wizard of the north, 28 May 1896, with note on Patrick Geddes, by Duncan Macmillan, 'Saltire Society' newsletter, undated; Extract from ‘The interpreter: Geddes’, by Amelia Defries, 1927, pp 192-195; 'Patrick Geddes in context: glossing Lewis Mumford in the light of John Hewitt': paper presented to John Hewitt International Summer School, County Antrim, by Murdo Macdonald, 28 July 1994, 19 pp; 'Patrick Geddes and Perth': expanded from paper presented at Geddes in Perth Day, by Murdo Macdonald on 13 April 1996, 19 pp; Publishing details of ‘Blake: an illustrated quarterly’, vol 27:3, Winter 1993/94.
Folder 2 Contents: Correspondence, programme and menu for dinner and dance, Incorporation of Coopers of Glasgow, Trades Hall, Glasgow, 5 March 1999, with ‘Trades Hall: a guide’, by RWKC Rogerson and W Leggat Smith, undated, 16 pp, and ‘The Trades House of Glasgow: past, present and future’, 'Trades House of Glasgow, 1989', 30 pp; 'The interest is killing us', by Roger Schmitz, reprinted from 'Monetary reform' magazine, February/March 1994, 5 pp; 'Songs of the stones' European Community of Stones project, 1992, 7 pp; 'The Cretan labyrinth: archetypal landscape design symbol', by Emilie Humphreys, Radcliffe seminars, 1 May 1991, 17 pp; 'The idiosyncratic focus of conflicts', by John Kaska, Demarco Archives 1966-1997 exhibition, 3 pp; 'Leonardo-Beuys: the notebook as experimental field', by Martin Kemp, undated, 12 pp; 'Remarks on the development of the early sculptures leading to the most recent sculptures (1983)' by Royden Rabinowitch, Orchard Gallery, Londonderry, 1983, 18 pp booklet; 'Artiscience, artiscient', 4 October 1996, 2 pp; 'Art, the social construction of the self and the Classical tradition in Scotland', by Murdo Macdonald, from Common sense, 12, 1990s, pp 82-92: Extract on work of Latham, source and date unknown, p 165; Details of book on structures, by J E Gordon, with letter from Les ... Paisley College, 4 March 1992 to Ricky [Demarco?]; 'International surrealist bulletin no 4', September 1936, 20 pp [featuring International Surrealist Exhibition, London, 11 June-4 July 1936; text in English and French]; 'The problem of increasing human energy', 'Century' illustrated monthly magazine, June 1900, pp A-109-A-151; 'The ill-clad city: Glasgow turns its back on public art', by David Harding,' Journal of Art and Design Education', vol 16:1, 1997, pp 35-45 [features George Wyllie’s Safety pin].
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Catalogue introductions by George Wyllie. Manuscript and typed documents.
Contents include: 'Directions in scul?ture', 1983, manuscript notes, 6 pp; Interlude, with manuscript notes for exhibition; 'Scul?ture': St Andrews Festival, 1983; 'Scul?ture', for London exhibition, April 1979; 'Scul?ture': Collins Exhibition Hall [University of Strathclyde], January 1981; Introduction for unknown exhibition; Blake’s Bike, [19 ]; 'All my own work: a nearly missed review', 'Stirling Gallery news', no 4, June-August 1982 (offprint); 'Scul?ture': exhibition in Hendersons Gallery, Edinburgh, 1978, with catalogue, 4 pp.
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Manuscript and typed documents, mostly by George Wyllie.
Contents: 'The Personal Manifesto', 1980, manuscript, 6 pp and typed version, 2pp; 'Manifesto', 1988, typed document, 2 pp; 'Personal Manifesto', 1991, typed document, 2 pp; 'Faultfinder', undated manuscript, 2 pp; Joseph Beuys: ‘Das Kapital’: an appeal for an alternative, undated printed copy, 7 pp (2 copies); 'Das Capital (or all that’s gold may not glitter either)', by George Wyllie, undated manuscript and typed documents; 'What can we do?' Prospectus for a lecture, [1990]; 'The Spire', 1988 and 1994; 'Synenergezetics', 1994; 'Real, not real', undated.
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Manuscript and typescript posters and documents by George Wyllie.
Contents: 'On civil disobedience', January 1999; 'Robinson Crusoe nearly slept here', manuscript exhibition poster, undated, 2 copies; 'Scul?ture', manuscript exhibition poster, 1981 and typed note: ‘Where Scul?ture has been, 1966-1981’; 'The Serpentine gushers', manuscript exhibition poster, 1981, 4 versions; You are invited to spend ‘A Day down a Goldmine’, manuscript poster, undated, 6 versions; 'A short history of action painting', manuscript document, 1981; 'The difference: tree, stone, glass and photographs', printed extract from ‘The eye of the storm: Scottish artists and the nuclear arms debate’, 1986; 'A Day down a Goldmine' sketch mounted on gold card, undated, with manuscript title ‘A Day down a Goldmine’ on white card; 'Destiny', manuscript title, undated.
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Manuscript and typed documents, project proposals, notes and sketches, mostly by George Wyllie, correspondence, photographs.
Contents: 'Synenergezetics simply explained', manuscript and typed notes and drawings, undated; 'The Spire: air, equilibrium, stone', undated; 'The Spire', 1995, and leaflet on Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, undated; 'The Spire', 1994 and 1988; 'Explaining Scul?ture and the synergetic cycle ... etc? Also More explaining', manuscript notes, November 1993 [for exhibition at Lillie Gallery, Milngavie?]; 'The Lumsden Spire', undated; 'Synenergezetics', December 1994; Definition of ‘Synenergezetics’ by George Wyllie, May 1995; 'The Spire: equilibrium', 1996; Livingston Town Square sculpture, 1995; 'Mystery Spire': manuscript proposal, undated; 'The Oldham Spire': proposal, June 1992, 3 pp; University of Strathclyde sculpture commission competition, June 1993: leaflet on shortlisted works, correspondence, sketches and proposal for George Wyllie’s Strathclyde Spire, with 2 colour photographs 180 mm x 125 mm; 'Multi-spire: Scottish Sculpture Open', 3, 1985: proposal with sketches, 1985, 2 pp; 'Sculpture for Peterhead Power Station': proposal, manuscript notes and sketch, July 1983; Flexy sculpture, World Headquarters, General Accident Insurance Co, Perth: notes and sketch c 1982 and description [press release?], 1983; 'The Broomielaw Spire: the sculptor’s aspirations': proposal, February 1992; 'A Spire for Ben Lomond Memorial Park': proposal, August 1996; 'Cradle': proposal, undated; 'Extending Tatlin': manuscript notes and sketches, 1995; 'Synergic art manifesto', by Murdo Macdonald and George Wyllie, April 1992, 3 pp, also version in German language, 2 pp.
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Quotations, speeches, press cuttings and published articles, a few by George Wyllie, mostly by others. 1983-2001, with photocopied extracts from earlier works.
Contents: 'International Institute of Geopoetics': inaugural text by Kenneth White, 1989, 2 pp; NSEAD [National Society for Education in Art and Design] Annual course and conference, ‘Art and design and regeneration’, 1990: 'What can we do?' Workshop by George Wyllie: programme; Scottish Council Foundation, Creativity think tank, 2001: programme and invitation; 'What can we do?', 1991; 'Facing the future: a new agenda for the arts?' by Ian Christie, Demos, 1991; Arts Council of England brochure, c 1998; Yaddo Project, New York, USA, undated booklet and press cutting from 'Saturday Herald', undated; 'Celebrating Scotland: a national cultural strategy', Scottish Executive, 1999, booklet, 16 pp; Talk by George Wyllie at Arts and Communities Forum, Dundee Arts Centre, 1995, 3 pp; 'Avantgarde and social awareness: the example of Joseph Beuys', by Franz-Joachim Verspohl, source and date unknown, pp 23-37 (photocopy); Hand Hollow Foundation, New York, USA: information for residents, 1983, 3 pp; 'The artist and his time, from ‘The myth of Sisyphus’' by Albert Camus, first published in 1953 (photocopy); 'People: structure: engineering: standing on the shoulders of giants', by Chris Wise, Structural engineer, vol 78:1, 4 January 2000, pp 24-28 (offprint).
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Gourock: Scul?ture Press, 1983. 1st edition of 50 copies, signed and hand coloured by the Historian. Copy 37/50.
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Typescripts, printed extracts and press cuttings by George Wyllie and others. 1984-2003, with a few earlier items.
Contents include: 'Decorating as poetical act', by Karen-Claire Voss, typescript 1994, 5 pp; 'All that jazz': George Melly interview by Emily Partridge, 'Scotland on Sunday', 1 July 2001, pp 16-19, press cutting; 'Purpose': poem by Eileann [?] with covering letter to George Wyllie, undated; 'Crystal ship': poem by Tessa Ransford, April 2003; Colour illustration of Black Mount, Rannoch Moor, with layout sketch on verso, undated; 'Art in Scotland', by Cordelia Oliver, 'Anglistik und englischunterricht', vol 38/39, 1989, pp 117-138, offprint, 2 copies; 'My airport plan is plain sailing', by Kathleen Mearns [suggestion of airport on Clyde Estuary], 'Greenock Telegraph', 15 August 2002, p 10, press cutting; Famedram books catalogue, undated, 3 copies; 'Why I (sort of) hate fireworks', by George Wyllie, August 2001, typescript, 2pp; 'The ‘Skylight’ and Para Handy’s dream', by George Wyllie, 2001, typescript, 2 pp; ‘The Granny Kempock Stone and the Gourock that was’, and ‘Sea serpent on the beach’, undated typescript, 6 pp; 'I once went down to the sea again', by George Wyllie, May 2003, typescript; 'The Spire and a Bird', by George Wyllie, May 2003, typescript; 'The Clackmannan sea chest', with sketch, by George Wyllie, August 2001, with biographical details; 'Scotland': poem, with sketch ‘How to make Ayr waves’, undated; 'In Canna harbour' and other poems with sketches, and covering letter from Allan Law, Gourock, 26 February 2003; 'The Fall': description of installation, by George Wyllie, November 2001; 'The difference of Hiroshima', by George Wyllie, undated; Correspondence with Dumfries and Galloway Council re Wyllie’s '32 Spires for Hibernia' exhibition at Gracefield Arts Centre, Dumfries, April-July 1997; Press cutting re cynicism about democracy, 'The Herald', 26 April 2003; Definitions of ‘field’ sent to George Wyllie by Kenny [Munro], 5 September 1997, with campus map of University of Glasgow; Invitations to Memorial to George Rickey, Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York on 24 October 2002, and to Country Tribute for George Rickey at Hand Hollow, New York on 26 October 2002, with obituary of George Rickey by Cordelia Oliver, 'The Herald', 29 July 2002, press cutting; 'Extending concepts', manuscript notes by George Wyllie, undated, 4 pp; Colour picture of puffer, undated; Glasgow coat of arms, undated press cutting, with leaflet on Saint Mungo, Patron Saint of Glasgow, by Elspeth King, Glasgow Museums and Galleries, 1984, 4 pp; Old Gourock and Ashton Parish Church guidebook, c 1997, 12 pp; Illustration of safety pin on Nokia mobile phone advertisement, 'The Herald', 11 March 2003, press cutting; 'Stone language', with illustration of standing stones, by Norman Hallendy, 'Independent on Sunday', 15 October 2000, pp 36-37, press cutting; Fax from Mike Wilson to George Wyllie, 13 July 2001, on Wyllie’s ‘Tweed Bike’ at Velo-city 2001; Edinburgh Airport’s 'Look who’s talking' lunchtime talks by George Wyllie, Mary Marquis and Jeremy Spake at Edinburgh Festival Theatre, May 2000: flyer, 10 copies, and letter from Angela Petrie, Angela Petrie Associates, Glasgow to George Wyllie, confirming arrangements, 3 March 2000; 'Let’s name this ship', by George Wyllie, 1981, typescript on card; Sketch for Agnus Dei, 1966 or 1968; Photocopied extracts from ‘A journey from Hagar Qim to the Ring of Brodgar’, edited by David Bellman, Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh, December 1976, 11 pp, with information on Martin of Tours (c 316-397), photocopy, unknown source and date; Dynamic place awards 2002: supreme award The Falkirk Wheel, Scottish Enterprise, 2002, 12 pp booklet; Millennium award for the most healing show on the Fringe to George Wyllie and cast of ‘Bye, bye, blackbird’, 1999; 'The making of Ronnie Singh': outline of a feature film by Stuart Hepburn, 7 March 1996, typescript, 15, 11 pp; Sketches of a lamb, with manuscript captions, by George Wyllie, undated, 4 pp; Article on Sean Connery, 'The Herald' Magazine, 8 March 2003, press cutting.
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Typescripts and press cuttings by George Wyllie.
Contents: 'Wyllie’s Way', illustrated with a sketch of the ‘Inverclyde Hilton’ [on Pierhead development at Gourock], Gourock Extra, undated, p 3, with 2 typed versions of ‘A view from the old Cloch’, July 1999, 2pp and ‘The Inverclyde Hilton’, July 1999, 2pp, and sketch of Inverclyde Hilton, 1999, 2 copies;' Joseph’s back in town!' [on Joseph Beuys], undated, [1990s?], typescript, 5 pp; 'Concepts of division', 'The Herald', 19 July 1999, press cutting; 'Beuys zone', 'Sunday Herald', 27 June 1999, pp 4-5, press cutting; The Govan Fair, [1998] typescript, 2 pp, with Kvaerner Govan visitor pass, 21 April 1998 and published version ‘The South side Vikings’, 'The Herald', 4 June 1998; 'What Tracey did', undated typescript, and 'Tracey’s chef d’oeuvre', photocopied extract on Tracey Emin, source and date unknown; 'Distance lends detachment', October 1998, typescript, 2 pp, with covering note from George Wyllie, 26 October 1998, and press article by Duncan Macmillan: 'How building a gallery could demolish a myth', 'Scotsman', 21 September 1998; 'A month in the country: a personal view', photocopy of article in 'Country Living', undated, with typescript ‘Air’, undated, 4 pp; 'Comments on modern architecture', March 1997, typescript for 'Scotland on Sunday' survey; Comment on the ‘Armadillo’ building [Glasgow], for 'Architects Journal', 1998; 'Impossible beginnings': contribution to ‘A Scottish childhood’, typescript, [1997], 2 pp, with letter from N Bailey, Killearn, 30 September 1997; 'All cultured out?' 'The Glaswegian', 16 October 1997, press cutting; 'Romance and pride of the city is set in stone' [on Townhead Spire], 'The Herald', 22 September 1997, press cutting; 'Mr Wyllie’s Millennial Marvels', 'The Herald', 1 March 1997, press cutting; 'Where there’s a will ...' [1997], typescript, 3 pp, with press cutting article on the Burrell Collection, 'Scotsman', 24 February 1997; 'Tidying up the attic' [1996], typescript, 4 pp, with published version ‘Snakes and ladders’, 'Scotland on Sunday', 25 August 1996; 'Punching the open air', [1996], typescript, 3 pp, with published version ‘Stir crazy’, 'Scotland on Sunday, 18 August 1996; Sad but true ... review of ‘Reckoning with the past’ exhibition at Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland on Sunday', 11 August 1996; Review of British Art Show, undated typescript, several versions, 2 pp, with photocopy of Pantomime Tales, 'The List', 8-21 March 1996, and sketch of rabbits, 1996; 'White elephants and open-top buses' [1996], typescript, 2 pp, with published version ‘Princely virtues’, 'The Herald', 15 February 1996 [on Patrick Geddes and Scots College, Montpellier]; 'Building hope to heal scars of war' [on Hiroshima installation], 'The Herald', 7 August 1995, press cutting; 'Gouro-Tunnel' [1995], typescript, 3 pp and published version ‘Vision at the end of the Gouro-tunnel’, 'The Herald', 3 April 1995; 'Sticking up for peace' [on 32 Spires for Hibernia], 'Scotsman', 6 August 1994; 'A barrel-organ ...' review of exhibition of work by Eduard Bersudsky [1994], typescript, 2 pp, and published version ‘Monkey business mocks the absurd’, 'The Herald', 11 May 1994; 'Kissing Scotland goodbye' [on Richard Demarco’s possible gallery in Budapest], 'Scotsman' Weekend, 29 June 1991, pp 18-19; 'The day they raised Tower Bridge for the Paper Boat', 'Glasgow Herald', 23 September 1989, press cutting; 'The day we went to Documenta', 'Alba', Autumn 1987, pp 3, 39, offprint; 'What I hate is ... The enthusiasm of midges', [1991?], draft typescript, 4 pp, with published version ‘Getting a buzz from the good life’, 'Scotsman', 9 February 1991; 'It’s high noon at the Mound' [on removal of SSA annual exhibition from Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh], 'Scotland on Sunday', 6 August 1989, press cutting; Review of unknown exhibition, 'Alba' no 7, early 1998, offprint; 'Compass man on course to beat the grey thinkers' [on Cyril Gerber], 'Glasgow Herald', 29 April 1986, press cutting; 'Making equipment for sea fishing', 'Hobbies Weekly', vol 130:3369, 6 July 1960, p 245, offprint, with invoice from 'Hobbies Weekly' for payment of £1.
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Manuscript and typescript documents mostly by George Wyllie, synopses for plays and films, project proposals, post cards, photographs.
Contents: Proposal for a collaborative project, Star Gap, Fablevision with George Wyllie, 1996, 6 pp; 'Stargap', [1996], 3 pp; manuscript notes on Stargap project, undated; Biographical details of performers, unknown production, 2000; Sketches for 'A Day down a Gold Mine', 16 April 1997; 'A second Clearance at Calgary' [synopsis for a film on Mull], undated, with two post cards, one dated August 1996 and colour photograph of a group of people with a spire; Script for ‘A voyage round a safety-pin’, 2nd draft with sketches, undated, 12 pp, with synopsis, 2 pp; 'I love Americana, but...', undated manuscript, 5 pp; Gold quotation, Arts review, 1998; Devices to improve votes for Scottish Conservatives, undated, with expanded version, undated, 4 pp; 'Stargap, another version', undated, 3 pp; Script for 'Stargap', with sketches, undated, 13 pp, and synopsis, undated, 5 pp, with compliments slip from Borderline Theatre Company Limited; 'The uneasy jig-saw', 8 December 1991; 'From the perimeter': synopsis, several drafts, 13 July 1987, 6 pp; 'George Wyllie – three minutes on rockets', undated; 'All art in Poland': synopsis, undated manuscript, 4 pp; 'Notes on three hours’ TV', undated; 'Eye of the storm': synopsis, undated; Greyhounds programme: rough outline, undated, 2 pp; 'Peter Pan and Wendy: George Wyllie and The Crocodile’s Dream', undated, 4 pp, and undated manuscript, 3 pp; 'The Kerrera saga...' undated, 3 pp, with flyer for production at James Arnott Theatre, University of Glasgow, 16-18 June [1998]; 'The Kerrera Saga': original b & w and watercolour sketches, 1998; 'Sailing around a safety-pin', undated; 'The Newry Light Orchestra': proposal for a project, undated; 'The Inverclyde Crystal': proposal, undated; 'Rock in the boat', June 1999, 2 pp, and earlier versions, April 1999 and undated; 'Royston re-visited': proposal for a short film for Glasgow Film Theatre, undated; 'My experience of making art beyond the gallery...' February 1997, 2 pp; 'The story of a stool' [on Jenny Geddes], from ‘Bygone Church life’, pp 255-259, with ‘The worthy memory of Jenny Geddes’, by Merilyn Smith [proposal for a memorial], 1992, and Script for Jenny, undated, 11 pp; Version of script with ‘Why Jenny threw the stool’, undated, 3 pp; 'The decent burial of a stuffed hare', undated manuscript; 'Sharmanka, or Russia, Schmussia: nine easy pieces': synopsis for documentary on Eduard Bersudky, April 1997, 5 pp.
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9 verses of poem reproduced in French and English and illustrated with watercolour drawings, by George Wyllie. Gourock: George Wyllie, May 1992.
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Booklet about the ancient stones of Calanais and thoughts upon the truth of stone. Gourock: George Wyllie, January 1995.
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Articles by other writers, typescript and press cuttings.
Contents: 'By leaves we live', by Kenny Munro, 'Reforesting Scotland', 18, Spring 1998, p 38, photocopy; Extracts from ‘Scottish firsts’, by Elspeth Wills, 'on Sir Alexander Fleming, James Watt, William Thomson Lord Kelvin, Alexander Graham Bell and John Logie Baird', undated typescript, 9 pp; 'Independence for Leith', by Sandy Campbell, September 2002, typescript, 4 pp; Email document, ‘The digital haze’, September 2001, 6 pp; 'In the room of the shaman', by Michael Tucker, c 1997, photocopy of typescript, 13 pp; 'Either the ladder or the wheel', by Patrick Reilly, press cutting possibly from 'The Herald', 8 May 2000; Photocopied articles on jade, lantern, stone and metal, source and date unknown, with manuscript note and sketch, 9 pp; Proposal for the creation of urban cultural network, by Bernard Kohn, Paris, April 1998, 7 pp, photocopy [on Geddes and Montpellier]; 'Will the emu fly?' By Robert McDowell, Demarco European Arts Foundation, Edinburgh, 30 November 1996, typescript, 7 pp; 'Captain Cadell’s canoe: the return of the Forerunner', by Kenny Munro, 'Reforesting Scotland', 25, Winter 2000, pp 44-45, photocopy; 'Now we seek to kill off the mind that first became aware of its soul', by Phil Barker, 'The Herald', 29 July 2000, p 15; 'The Gourock carcass', extract from ‘Bring me the head of the sea serpent’, by Karl P N Shuker, 'Strange Magazine', 15, Spring 1995; 'The man who knew all', by Bernard Levin [on Montaigne], unknown source and date, press cutting; 'The oldest alliances': book review by Kenneth White, 'Scotsman', 24 February 2001, press cutting; 'And did those feet?' [on William Blake, Glastonbury etc] with sketches, by C G S, photocopy, source and date unknown, 24 pp; 'The Consignia Lecture', by Kenneth White, photocopy of press article, 'The Herald', undated; Photocopied extracts on Hugh Miller and James Hutton, endorsed ‘Ref only for SOS [Stones of Scotland]', unknown source and date, 2 pp.
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My Words: essays by George Wyllie published in 'Artwork'. Typescripts, sketches and press cuttings. Also published as a book.
Folder 1 entitled 'W[ritings]: My Words' containing final proof for 'My Words, George Wyllie's Essays for Artwork' book published Famedram, 1998.
Contents: Cover design and title page for book; Sketches for opposite Preface and Foreword, January 1998; Preface, 1997; 'Voyaging beyond the bath-tub', June/July 1995, 4 pp; 'Now you see it ...' August/September 1995, 4 pp; 'Is it art, but', October/November 1995, 4 pp; 'The drone of conferences', December 1995/January 1996, 4 pp; 'A sideways look at gravity', February/March 1996, 4 pp; 'Breaking the habit', April/May 1996 (printed copy); 'All the fun of the * fair', June/July 1996, 3 pp; 'It’s a bonanza', October/November 1996, 3 pp; 'Clan, place, work', December 1996/January 1997, 4 pp; 'No beginnings in the offing', February/March 1997, 4 pp; 'Here’s to uncertainty!' April/May 1997, 3 pp; 'A ferry story', June/July 1997, 3 pp; 'Sketches of rabbits; Elton', October/November 1997, 3 pp, 'with The adulation of the mediocre', 4 pp; 'Cruising down the river', December 1997/January 1998, 3 pp, also revised version; Correspondence re ‘My words’ book, 1998.
Folder 2 entitled 'W[ritings]: Artwork' containing essays by George Wyllie published in 'ArtWork'.
Contents: 'An analysis of mediocrity', July 2000, 3 pp; 'Down in the tunnel something stirs', March 2000, with press cutting from 'ArtWork' 103; 'Alternative comedy', undated, 3 pp; 'The invisible revolution', December 1999, 2 pp, with press cutting from 'ArtWork' 101; 'On not writing about the millennium', undated, 2pp, with press cutting from 'ArtWork' 100, October/November 1999; 'The insistence of the stones', July 1999, 2pp, with press cutting from 'ArtWork' 99; 'The SOS...' 1999, 3 pp, with press article ‘George Wyllie on the quest for the stones of Scotland', 'ArtWork' 95, December 1998/January 1999; 'Enhancement by adjectives', press cutting from 'ArtWork' 96, February/March 1999; 'Done to a T...' press cutting from 'ArtWork' 93, August/September 1998; 'An introduction to teabag folding', with letter from Mrs K A Butlin, Dundee to George Wyllie, 9 October 1998; '‘Being’ with a capital ‘B’', undated, 2 pp, with press cutting from 'ArtWork' 92, June/July 1998; 'Desert island tapes', undated, 2 pp, with press cutting from 'ArtWork' 91, April/May 1998; ‘On yer bike’, January 1998, 2pp, with press cutting from 'ArtWork' 90; 'Cruising down the river': press cutting from ArtWork 89, December 1997/January 1998; 'Twenty year voyage beyond the bath-tub': press cutting from 'ArtWork' 74, June/July 1995; 'Getting to grips with a concept': press cutting from 'ArtWork' 75, August/September 1995; 'For a’ that and a’ that...' press cutting from 'ArtWork' 76, October/November 1995; 'Echoes of conferences', November 1995, 2 pp, with press cutting from 'ArtWork' 77; 'Sideways is best!' January 1996, 3 pp, with press cutting from 'ArtWork' 78; 'Breaking the habit', undated, 2pp, with press cutting from 'ArtWork' 79, April/May 1996; 'All the fun of the art fair', May 1996, 3pp, with press cutting from 'ArtWork' 80; 'Bonanza time at the Arts jamboree', 1996, 2 pp, with press cutting from 'ArtWork' 82, October/November 1996; Advert for George Wyllie’s book, ‘My words’, 'ArtWork' 89, December 1997/January 1998; 'A clan gathering – and how!' 1996, 3 pp, with press cutting from 'ArtWork' 83, December 1996/January 1997; 'No beginnings in the offing?' January 1997, 2 pp, with press cutting from 'ArtWork' 84; 'Here’s to uncertainty!' 1997, 3 pp, with press cutting from 'ArtWork' 85, April/May 1997; 'A ferry story', 1997, with press cutting from 'ArtWork' 86, June/July 1997; 'Where does space exist?' 1997, 2 pp, with press cutting from 'ArtWork' 87, August/September 1997; 'The adulation of the mediocre', 1997, 2 pp, with press cutting from 'ArtWork' 88, October/November 1997.
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Set of original drawings for the book 'My words : George Wyllie's original ArtWork essays' (Famedram, 1998), also photocopied set. 40 pp.
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Typescripts by George Wyllie, with notes by other writers.
Contents: 'Bye bye Blackbird'; Bye bye Blackbirds suggested running order; 'The Ravens' [Serbian folk poem]; 'Sultan Murad fell ...' ; 'Notes on aircraft'; 'Celtic wisdom'; 'Bye bye Blackbird' 1 and 2.
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Typescripts, manuscript and printed extracts by George Wyllie and other writers.
Contents include: 'Poems and songs to lift the heart', printed from internet, January 2003, 4 pp; 'Abort abort', undated; Letter from ... Thurso, 5 October 2001 to George Wyllie, 2 pp, mentioning Atlantic Vent; Poems by Rabindranath Tagore; Introduction to ‘The World Song’, by George Wyllie? undated, 10 pp manuscript and typescript; Poems for the Stones of Scotland project, 2000; 'The beginning of a new song', by Iain Crichton Smith; 'Miklagard', by Colin Mackay, unknown source and date, pp 66-70; 'America’s poet, Walt Whitman, by Joel L Swerdlow', offprint from 'National Geographic', with poem by Robert Frost, ‘The gift outright’; 'For George Ralston Wyllie', by Kenny Munro, August 2000, with 'For Graham Mitchell Ross', by George Wyllie, and information on ‘The Dedication Books’ from Alec Finlay, 'Morning Star', Edinburgh, undated; 'Happy Compass', poem and illustration for 'An Leabhar Mor' [The Great Book of Gaelic], 2002, with project details; 'Ode to the best pair of legs in Glasgow', by George Wyllie, manuscript and typescript copy; 'The Safety-pin song'.
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2 sheets pasted together to create single page.
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Correspondence with funding bodies, local authorities, museums and galleries, business firms, broadcast and print media, universities, charities, local art clubs and individuals.
In addition to this correspondence series, there are many letters pasted into the cuttings books (T-WYL/11).
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Files of correspondence marked 'old'.
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File of correspondence marked 'Recent'.
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Correspondence, predominantly 1996-2004.
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Cuttings books containing correspondence, press cuttings, invitations, exhibition catalogues and memorabilia.
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Press cuttings from local, national and international press.
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Folder entitled 'Press: 68/89'.
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Folder entitled 'Press 1: The Straw Locomotive'.
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Folio volume titled ‘Record of arrivals: pier head book’.
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Folder entitled 'Press: 89/91'.
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Folder entitled 'Press 92/93'
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Folder entitled 'Press: 94/95'.
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Folder entitled 'Press 96/96'.
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Folder entitled 'Press: 97/98'
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Folder entitled 'Press: 99/00'
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Folder entitled 'Press: 2000-2002'
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Box file containing 1 folder and loose press cuttings.
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Folder entitled 'Misc[ellaneous], Press Photos'
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Folder entitled 'Press: undated'.
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Folder entitled 'Press: foreign'
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In ‘Glasgow: locomotive builder to the world’ by Murdoch Nicolson and Mark O’Neill. Polygon Books, 1987, pp 1-3, 42-44.
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In ‘Scottish Arts Council Creative Scotland Awards: 2000 retrospective’. Edinburgh: Scottish Arts Council, August 2003, pp 64-69.
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In 'South by south west: the story of art in south west Scotland'. East Ayrshire Council on behalf of Future Museum Partnership, 2008, pp. 216-217.
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