Tate Archive Online
Explore the Archive further via the various microsites dedicated to making material available online. A searchable showcase offers a fascinating opportunity to explore the range of archival material. Three engaging journeys provide insight into Tate's History, the Bloomsbury Group and the art critic Barbara Reise.
It should be noted that these resources contain only a fraction of the remarkable body of material contained in the main Tate Archive.
Archive Showcase
Over 4,000 items can be searched around three initial themes of Tate's History, the Bloomsbury Group and the art critic Barbara Reise.
Tate's Archive Showcase is part of an ongoing digital programme to make the collections more accessible beyond the gallery walls. Tate Insight is supported by the New Opportunities Fund.
Archive Journeys
Take three engaging journeys in which the Tate Archive reveals the remarkable stories of Tate's History, the Bloomsbury Group and the art critic Barbara Reise.
Archive Microsites
The following micro-sites provide background information about some of the artists' papers and institutional/group records housed in Tate Archive.
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ICA Archive
The Tate Archive holds the archive of the Institute of Contemporary Arts from 1947 to 1987. The archive is an incredibly rich resource for anyone interested in the visual arts, theatre and performance art, dance, critical thought, music and sound art, and film. The ICA's archive has now been catalogued and the catalogues are available online. To celebrate this, and the ICA's 60th Anniversary, this exhibition has been created to give a flavour of the history of the ICA and its documentary evidence.
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John Piper
Tate acquired John and Myfanwy Piper's archive in 2004 with the aid of the Heritage Lottery Fund, and this display marks the completion of its cataloguing. It documents all aspects of their lives and work from the 1930s to the 1990s and includes letters, sketchbooks, manuscripts and photographs, a small selection of which can be seen here.
Goshka Macuga - Objects in Relation
Goshka Macuga's sculptural environments include unlikely displays of other artists' work alongside disparate collections of objects – books, souvenirs, scraps, artefacts and curios – thus blurring the roles of artist, curator and collector. For Art Now she has selected objects from Tate's Archive and Collection to explore conventions of archiving, exhibition making and museum display.
Audio and Film footage highlights from Tate's Archive Collection
Watch archival footage of cultural figures and artists in the Collection and listen to a wide range of audio material.
Prunella Clough
This microsite focuses on Clough's figurative paintings of the 1940s and 50s and her late abstract work. Featuring an interactive resource and detailed room guide, it explores how Clough transformed seemingly commonplace subjects - lorries and factory yards, the detritus of street and gutter, the bright colours of plastics - into images of compelling mystery and beauty.
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Audio Arts: Bill Furlong
This microsite explores four hours of selected recorded clips from the audio cassette-magazine Audio Arts, established by Bill Furlong in 1973. Edited and produced by Furlong, it comprises an integral element of his art practice.
Christmas Tree
This microsite documents the history of the annual artist-commissioned Christmas Tree at Tate Britain, using photographs from Tate's Archive.
The Musgrave Kinley Outsider Trust
This microsite was produced to celebrate the acquisition of the Musgrave Kinley Outsider Trust's records by Tate Archive in 2003 (TGA 200327) and to support an exhibition held in the Goodison Room, Tate Britain, 5 September 2005 2 January 2006.
Donald Rodney Microsite
This microsite was produced to celebrate the part purchase/part gift of the artist's personal papers from his Estate by Tate Archive in 2003 (TGA 200321) and to support a display, Donald Rodney, held in the Goodison Room, Tate Britain, 20 September – 31 December 2004.
Artist Placement Group (APG) Micro site
This microsite was produced to celebrate the acquisition of the records of the APG by Tate Archive in 2004 (TGA 20042) and to support a symposium and a display, Art and Social Intervention: the Incidental Person, held at Tate Britain, 23 March 2005.