Ian Breakwell
‘Dancing Strangers’, a booklet of photographs and captions put together by Ian Breakwell for his work, ‘Ghost Dance (aka Dancing Strangers)’
Tate Archive
© The estate of Ian Breakwell
Tate Archive contains more than one million items on artists, art world figures and art organisations in Britain documenting the history of fine art practice in the UK. This includes letters, writings, sketchbooks, audio-visual material, photographs, ephemera, press cuttings and objects.
More than 75,000 of these, including material by artists such as Francis Bacon, Felicia Browne, Aubrey Williams, Ithell Colquhoun, and Paul Nash, can now be viewed online.
You can browse the collections below, or search for specific artists, themes, or subjects in the search bar. To narrow down your results, use quotation marks around a particular search interest (e.g. "Manchester", or '"Barbara Ker-Seymer" theatre')
As well as browsing the collections online, you can:
- Learn about the stories behind Tate’s archives with this video series
- Consult material in person by visiting the Reading Rooms at Tate Britain
You can find out more about our approach to archive digitisation by referring to our online toolkit produced as part of the HLF funded Archives & Access project (2012–2017).
