The Individual and the Organisation: Artist Placement Group 1966-79
27 September to 16 December 2012


Exhibition views

Left:

Jeffrey Shaw

Documentation of various inflatable structures

ca. 1968–69

Still images, Super 8 and 16mm, digitised

Courtesy Eventstructure Research Group (Theo

Botschuiyver, Jeffrey Shaw, Sean Wellesley-Miller)

 

Right:

Artist in the Works: Made for APG, 1970

16mm, digitised

Directed and narrated by Paul Overy

Produced by Nancy Balfour

Courtesy Tate Archive

 

Photograph by Marcus J. Leith

 

 

Garth Evans

Frame, 1970

Painted steel

Courtesy the artist and Poussin Gallery

Photograph by Marcus J. Leith  

David Hall

TV Interruptions – works originally made for Scottish Television, 1971

16mm, digitised

Courtesy the artist

Photograph by Marcus J. Leith  

David Hall

TV Interruptions – works originally made for Scottish Television, 1971

16mm, digitised

Courtesy the artist

Photograph by Marcus J. Leith   

 

Documentation from inno­­–Art & Economics, Hayward Gallery, 1971 and Between 6, Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, 1971

Photograph by Marcus J. Leith

 

Foreground: screens showing video documentation of various APG discussions including: inn7o – Art & Economics, Hayward Gallery, London, 1971; APG open day, ICA, London, 1972; documenta 6, Kassel, Germany, 1977

 

Background:

John Latham, X-ray prints, Clare Hall Hospital placement

1970

Courtesy John Latham Estate 

 

Erth, 1973

16mm, digitised

Courtesy LUX and John Latham Estate

 

Photograph by Marcus J. Leith

 

Documentation from inno­­–Art & Economics, Hayward Gallery, 1971 and Between 6, Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, 1971

 

John Latham

X-ray prints, Clare Hall Hospital placement

1970

Courtesy John Latham Estate 

 

Photograph by Marcus J. Leith

 

John Latham

X-ray prints, Clare Hall Hospital placement

1970

Courtesy John Latham Estate 

Photograph by Marcus J. Leith

 

Selected issues of Studio International, 1970 – 71

Courtesy Henry Moore Institute and Jo Melvin

Photograph by Marcus J. Leith

 

Barry Flanagan

funds, ca. 1969

Lino and finger print

Courtesy Flat Time House

Photograph by Marcus J. Leith

Foreground:

John Latham, Offer For Sale, 1971

Poster

Courtesy Theo Hessing

Photograph by Marcus J. Leith

 

Exhibition view showing documentation from placements:

British Transport Film Unit – Ian Breakwell and David Parsons, 1973

British European Airways (BEA) – David Hall, 1969

Ocean Fleets Ltd. – George Levantis, 1974–75

Photograph by Marcus J. Leith

 

Exhibition view showing documentation from placements:

British Transport Film Unit – Ian Breakwell and David Parsons, 1973

ICI Fibres Ltd. – Leonard Hessing, 1970–71

British European Airways (BEA) – David Hall, 1969

Esso Petroleum Corporation – Andrew Dipper, 1970

Photograph by Marcus J. Leith

 

Leonard Hessing

Eide B25, Eide B26, Eide B210

all 1969

Trichromatic screenprint on vacuum-formed PVC

Courtesy Theo Hessing

Photograph by Marcus J. Leith

Barbara Steveni

I Am An Archive, 2005 –

Video

Courtesy the artist

Photograph by Marcus J. Leith

 

Exhibition view showing documentation from placements:

Department of Health and Social Security – Ian Breakwell, 1976

Department of Health and Social Security – Nick Alderton, Ian Breakwell,

Hugh Davies, Bill Furlong, Mick Kemp, Carmel Sammons and David Toop

1978–79 

Photograph by Marcus J. Leith

 

Left:

Roger Coward, Com-Com, 1977

Photograph, board

Courtesy the artist

 

Right:

Roger Coward, The Most Smallest Heath in the Spaghetti Junction, 1975

16mm, digitised

Courtesy the artist

 

Photograph by Marcus J. Leith

 

Material from You and Me Here we Are: What can be Said to be Going On?, Royal College of Art, 1977 

Photographs: Roger Coward, Roland Lewis and Lisa Pennington; Photomontages: Roger Coward; Printing: Roger Coward and Brian Nicholls

Courtesy the artist

Photograph by Marcus J. Leith 

 

Exhibition view showing documentation from the placement:

Centre for Life Studies, London Zoo – David Toop, 1976

Photograph by Marcus J. Leith

Selection of research photographs from John Latham's placement at the Scottish Office (1975-76) by Pip Benveniste, Rita Donagh and John Latham, among others

1975 – ca. 1997

Courtesy John Latham Estate 

Photograph by Marcus J. Leith

 

Selection of research photographs from John Latham's placement at the Scottish Office (1975-76) by Pip Benveniste, Rita Donagh and John Latham, among others

1975 – ca. 1997

Courtesy John Latham Estate 

Photograph by Marcus J. Leith

 

John Latham

Study for a Bing Monument, 1976

Books, glass

 

John Latham

Study for a Bing Monument, ca. 1976

Books, processed oil shale from bing

 

John Latham

Study for a Bing Monument, 1976

Books, rocks and canvas gauze

Courtesy John Latham Estate and Lisson Gallery

 

Photograph by Marcus J. Leith

 

John Latham

Study for a Bing Monument, 1976

Books, glass

 

John Latham

Study for a Bing Monument, ca. 1976

Books, processed oil shale from bing

 

John Latham

Study for a Bing Monument, 1976

Books, rocks and canvas gauze

Courtesy John Latham Estate and Lisson Gallery

 

On wall:

Aerial view of Niddrie Woman Bing,

West Lothian, n. d.

Ministry of Defence (Air Force Department)

Crown copyright

Courtesy John Latham Estate and Lisson Gallery

 

Photograph by Marcus J. Leith