Designs and notes.
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.
Notes, correspondence, press releases and cuttings, street plan, post cards and tourist information.
[On Berlin Spire and Circus Gold]
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”’.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Sketches, correspondence, 9 colour photographs, various sizes, documents relating to Inverclyde Arts Foundation, tourist leaflets and photocopies from published histories of the area.
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.
Sketches, exhibition notes, correspondence, colour and black and white photographs of various sizes, poster, postcard, press cuttings, article about Neil Munro.
Proposals, design notes, sketches, colour photographs, press cutting, invoices, street plan.
Correspondence, exhibition catalogues, press releases and documents; also sketch of Scotland, possibly by Richard Demarco.
Includes exhibition flyers, invitations to previews, postcards and leaflets.
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.