| Description | File comprises :
- handwritten letter from Claudette Johnson (CJ), artist, illustrator, printer, Mabley Street, London, to Lubaina Himid, Rochdale Art Gallery, the Esplanade, Rochdale, Lancashire (26 April 1988). Thanks Himid and Maud Sulter for flowers sent on birth of Johnson's son Laurie. Discusses doing book cover illustrations for The Women's Press, and the Rochdale exhibition, for which CJ proposes work on the theme of 'women-work-the home and motherhood'. Originally enclosed eight slides of CJ's work for copying and return. Mentions Urban Fox Press;
- handwritten letter from CJ to Himid (26 September 1990). Discusses works that may be shown at the exhibition : an untitled work owned by Ingrid Pollard, and the charcoal drawing 'Nuba dancing', being bought by friends in Hackney. Postscript on letter states 'Still haven't received cheque!';
- Himid's handwritten gallery plan for 'Pushing back the boundaries' and the concurrent exhibitions, Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe, 'Portraits' and 'Blackwomens Creativity Project IV' (BWCP IV);
- typescript cover letter signed by Madge Proudfoot, Urban Fox Press, Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, to Lubaina Himid, Rochdale Art Gallery (20 July 1990), originally enclosing invoice for Claudette Johnson 'package' (presumably catalogue and publicity materials for exhibition). Mentions delayed payment for Donald Rodney 'package' (Rodney had a solo exhibition at the gallery in 1990); ;
- Rochdale Art Gallery document, 'Expenditure codes'. Lists codes for the exhibitions 'Women and modernism', 'Donald Rodney', 'Deanna Petherbridge', 'Pigs and ingots', 'Gracie Fields performance season', '"The song bird among the image-makers"', 'Claudette Johnson', 'Family life', 'The peoples art', 'Artists for the environment in Rochdale', 'Presenting the collection', 'Local artists', and 'Sport in art', and the 'Our town' fund;
- two blank requisition forms for Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale;
- Himid's handwritten notes relating to exhibition lettering, loans, budgets, invitations and press, and outstanding tasks;
- receipts for hackney carriage and British Rail travel (3 July 1990);
- payment slip for Lubaina Himid from Metro Rochdale, Municipal Offices, Smith Street, Rochdale (13 July 1990);
- Himid's handwritten draft text introducing 'Pushing back the boundaries'; and
- Himid's handwritten information sheets about BWCP IV, featuring photographs by Ingrid Pollard, and 'Portraits', part of Moutoussamy-Ashe's touring exhibition 'Daufuskie Island'. Mentions Barbara and Derek. |