By various photographers.
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.
Folder entitled 'Press: 97/98'
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.
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).
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.
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.
By various photographers.
Folder entitled 'Press 96/96'.
Notes, correspondence, press releases and cuttings, street plan, post cards and tourist information.
[On Berlin Spire and Circus Gold]
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.
Photographs of Stag [Monarch of Auchmountain Glen?] and Pond.
Includes photographs of bird (burd?) bath sculpture.