Files containing loose sheets of writings including faxes, draft letters, thoughts and artists statements on professional and personal matters, with related sketches, notes, correspondence, press-cuttings and images.
Letters, notes, faxes and drawings.
Autobiographical notes and reminisce over acquaintances made when Flanagan represented Great Britain at the Venice Biennale in 1982. Concrete poetry with spiral and treble and base clef motif. Personal notes. Notes of names and telephone numbers. Letter to ‘Gentlemen and Ladies of the press’ with reference to the ‘pataphysician Alfred Jarry. Note from Flan Flanagan, daughter of Barry Flanagan. Morphological drawings in blue pen [reminiscent of pipe-cleaner hare figures]. Jarryesque drawings. Word plays and musings.
Plan for a card for Annabelle Widmann, Flanagan’s daughter, with a reference to Stage door Johnny (1991). Personal notes on family, religion and boxing. Note to Enrique Juncosa [Director of the Irish Museum of Modern Art] Drawings concerned with fertility symbols. List of collaborators. Notes on Yoko Ono, Stephen Stills’ sister [songwriter and multi instrumentalist Stephen Stills] and music. Notes on the documentation of Gallifa study works.