Showing 4 results

Letters relating to the compilation and publication of Welsh Artists Talking, edited by Tony Curtis and published by Seren Books in 2000. Correspondents comprise artist Alfred Janes (letter from Curtis to Janes), Oliver Fairclough, Keeper of Art at the (then) National Museum & Galleries of Wales, Cardiff, artist Arthur Giardelli, painter Emrys Williams and sculptor, artist and teacher Lois Williams, the latter enclosing the interview conducted between her and Tony Curtis for Welsh Artists Talking (with amendments in Lois Williams's hand).

For the publication see, for example: https://www.serenbooks.com/book/welsh-artists-talking/.

Material relating to the compilation and publication of the revised 2nd edition of Welsh Painters Talking, edited by Tony Curtis and originally published by Seren Books in 1997, largely comprising correspondence and biographical notes from contributing artists, namely Sally Moore, Iwan Bala, Charles Burton, Arthur and Bim Giardelli, John Knapp-Fisher and Peter Prendergast.

Including annotations/amendments in the hands of Tony Curtis and Sally Moore.

Letters and card relating to the compilation and publication of Welsh Painters Talking, edited by Tony Curtis and published by Seren Books in 1997, the correspondents comprising Mick Felton of Seren Books, David Higgs of the British Council (to Mick Felton, with copy to Tony Curtis), poet and writer Helen Dunmore, Maggie Knight of the Washington Gallery, Penarth, artists Arthur and Bim Giardelli, sculptor and artist Jonah Jones, landscape painter Peter Prendergast and poet and writer Leslie Norris.

For the publication see, for example: https://www.waterstones.com/book/welsh-painters-talking/tony-curtis/9781854112002)

Papers, 1992-1997, relating to the research and production of Welsh Painters Talking (Seren Books, 1997), edited by Tony Curtis (see, for example: https://www.waterstones.com/book/welsh-painters-talking/tony-curtis/9781854112002), comprising: correspondence between Tony Curtis and the artists included in the volume and typescript drafts of interviews with the artists, with corrections by the interviewees, namely Iwan Bala, Charles Burton, Felicity Charlton, Arthur Giardelli, John Knapp-Fisher, Sally Moore, Peter Prendergast, Shani Rhys James, Will Roberts, Kevin Sinnott, Kyffin Williams and Ernest Zobole. Together with correspondence between Seren Books and others involved in the publishing of the volume and from David Alston, who wrote the foreword. Also included are draft versions of Tony Curtis's introduction to the volume; a review of the volume in a Seren booklet of recent publications; and a photocopy of the proposed cover of the volume. The material ranges from the project's inception in 1992 to the book's publication in 1997.
Some correspondence is written on postcards or cards showing reproductions of the artists' works.
Together with photocopy of review of the volume taken from a printed source.
Typescript notes included in this section provide detailed information regarding Tony Curtis's audio-taped interviews with the artists.