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Draft and fair-copy texts, with corrections by the interviewees, of interviews conducted by Tony Curtis with the artists involved in the compilation of Curtis's Welsh Artists Talking (Seren Books, 2000) (see, for example: https://www.serenbooks.com/book/welsh-artists-talking), together with correspondence and other material relating to the artists. The artists involved are: Brendan Burns, Ivor Davies, David Garner, Robert Harding, Alfred Janes, Christine Jones, Jonah Jones, David Nash, Terry Setch and Lois Williams.
Also included is material relating to an exhibition of contemporary paintings curated by Tony Curtis entitled 'Ten Welsh Painters', held at the Lewis Elton Gallery, University of Surrey, 18 January - 4 February 1999. Many of the exhibiting artists are included in Curtis's Welsh Painters Talking (Seren Books, 1997 - see under heading Welsh Painters Talking) and in Welsh Artists Talking.

Press cuttings relating to a talk given by Tony Curtis at the opening of an exhibition of painter Ray Howard-Jones's works at Tenby Museum and Art Gallery. The cuttings also show Tony Curtis's wife Margaret and Dr Kathy Talbot, then honorary curator of the museum and gallery. See also https://www.tenby-today.co.uk/news/successful-talk-on-ray-howard-jones-at-tenby-museum-456403.

Two copies of a lecture given, 16 November 2004, by Tony Curtis to the Contemporary Art Society for Wales (CASW) titled 'Four Gold Medals - The 1960s', which references the four Gold Medals for Visual Art awarded by the National Eisteddfod of Wales to artists Ceri Richards, Josef Herman, David Jones and Merlyn Evans.
See also under heading Articles and essays by Tony Curtis.
For the Contemporary Art Society for Wales, see also April 2018 papers under heading Contemporary Art Society for Wales (CASW) .

Draft and fair-copied copies of paper, titled 'Charles Burton: The Painting's in the Pity', given by Tony Curtis at a conference on the work of artist Ivor Davies ('Burnt Poetry': Ivor Davies and Destruction/Creation in Art and Word) held at Cardiff University, 27 February 2016 (see under section titled 'Hen Galan' at https://cardiffmemori.wordpress.com/page/4/). Drafts annotated/amended in the hands of Tony Curtis and that of his wife, Margaret Curtis.

Script of Foundation Course lecture on the theme of 'War', given by Tony Curtis as a tutor at, most probably, the then Polytechnic of Wales or, as it subsequently became known, the University of Glamorgan (now the University of South Wales).

Script of apparently incomplete interview with painter, printmaker and lecturer Ivor Davies conducted by Tony Curtis. With amendments in Curtis's hand.