Folder entitled 'Press: 2000-2002'
Photographs of various sculpture projects.
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.
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.
Printed document.
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.
Includes photographs of Monarch of Auchmountain Glen, Paper Boat, Ro-Ro, Para Handy, Just Sublime, and George Wyllie at work.
Sketches, exhibition notes, correspondence, colour and black and white photographs of various sizes, poster, postcard, press cuttings, article about Neil Munro.
Includes photographs of various puffer sculptures.