Making Histories Visible -  Open Archive 

In1999 we opened the Centre for Contemporary Art as a small exhibition space and work in progress project space. We began

to understand the need in 2001 to document and preserve materials relating to the achievements of contemporary artists working with the

university. Students were interested in the work of the artists who taught them, funders were interested in artists communities and curators

were interested in individual artists histories. Susan Walsh initiated and has since developed the collection of materials from the full range of

contemporary visual art practitioners working at UCLAN. At the time this included artists such as Val Murray a member of  TEA, Helen

Bendon and Jo Lansley among others.

Documentation of projects initiated during the past eleven years by Lubaina Himid and Susan Walsh can also be found as well as exhibitions

curated by Fine Art students and staff at UCLAN. Projects have been wide ranging and have included residencies, moving image

experiments, archive interventions and sound works, many of which were staged across the campus in a variety of spaces and places.

We house Professor Himid’s collection of catalogues and images by and about black artists from exhibitions held internationally during the

1980’s and early 1990’s.

Available to view on request are In Certain Places dvd presentations of the lectures from the Speaking of Art series. These include

presentations by Alfredo Jaar, Lewis Biggs, Cathy Newbury and Nayan Kulkarni.

It also hold a unique Collectionof paperworks, Catalogues and Images  by Black artists including Chris Ofili, Sonia Boyce, Paul Clarkson,  

Lubaina Himid and Ben Patterson

The Open Archive houses and continues to expand the permanent collection of documentary materials relating to artists

working in the North West region. It includes exhibition catalogues, books, journal essays, press cuttings, images, exhibition invitations,

posters, videos, dvds and soundworks.

We have material relating to:

Craig Atkinson

http://www.craigatkinson.co.uk/

Pete Clarke

http://www.peteclarke.org.uk/artist.htm 

Tracy Hill

http://printuniverse.ning.com/profile/TracyHill

http://artlabcontemporaryprint.wordpress.com/2011/10/04/research-article-published-in-printmaking-today/

Lubaina Himid

www.lubainahimid.info

Chris Jones

http://www.chrisandrewjones.com/

Mark Parkinson

http://www.markeparkinson.com/

David Mackintosh

http://www.davidmackintosh.com/

Chris Meigh Andrews

www.meigh-andrews.com/

Simonetta Moro

http://www.newschool.edu/lang/faculty.aspx?id=1782

Chantal Oakes

http://www.afro-culture.com/

Elaine Speight

http://www.elainespeight.net/

Magda Stawarska Beavan

http://www.magda-stawarska-beavan.com/

http://artlabcontemporaryprint.wordpress.com/

William Titley

http://www.williamtitley.org/

Rory Turner  

Patricia Walsh

http://incertainplaces.org/?s=PAtricia+Walsh

Susan Walsh

http://www.susanwalsh.org

http://www.sheltaintransit.info

Charles Quick 

http://www.charlesquick.org/

incertainplaces.org/about 

Gordon Fletcher

http://www.gordonfletcher.info/about/

In the Project Space work by both emerging and established contemporary artists is regularly displayed and contextualised. Also see

events archive  and  news





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