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Executive committee and Group minutes of the 56 Group/56 Group Wales, 1963-2011, with related material.

Lists of Group members, 1963-[2012] (some years missing), with addresses, telephone numbers and (in later lists) email addresses of members, some lists including the year individual members joined the Group and one list noting the ages of Group members; circular note, 2001, to Group members regarding membership ballot; and a letter, 1982, from Group secretary Mary Griffiths to the National Museum of Wales. Some folios annotated by Group secretaries Mary Griffiths and Bob Weir and others.

Material relating to the 56 Group's Paintings & Sculpture exhibition tour of 1965 held at the Bear Lane Gallery in Oxford, the Dillwyn Gallery in Swansea, Carmarthen Art Gallery, the National Museum of Wales in Cardiff and Bangor Art Gallery, including correspondence, 1964-1965; draft and printed exhibition catalogues; and printed invitation to private viewing in Oxford. Some folios annotated by Group secretary Mary Griffiths.

Photographs of Group members and their work and postcards showing Group members' works, arranged in alphabetical order, with details of subject-matter noted on dorse of items. Dorse of some items signed by the artist.

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Photo books 6028, size B & 6029, size B.

Correspondence largely between 56 Group/56 Group Wales secretary Mary Griffiths and Group 56/Group 56 Wales treasurer David Tinker and auditors, 1964-1996. One folio annotated with note from David Tinker to Mary Griffiths.

Papers, including correspondence between insurers and Group secretary Mary Griffiths, 1964, 1970, 1975, relating to insurance of 56 Group/56 Group Wales members' exhibited works and to insurance claims relating to exhibited works stolen (1970) and damaged (1975).

Material, 1964-2010, relating to personal and professional information regarding 56 Group/56 Group Wales members, including exhibition catalogues, biographical material, artists' statements and postcards, photographs and photographic slides of members' work.

Group members' (N-Z) exhibition catalogues, some undated. One catalogue annotated.

Ring-binder scrapbook containing mainly press cuttings and items taken from printed sources relating to 56 Group/56 Group Wales exhibitions, 1964-1978. Some items annotated. Some items loose.

Material relating to 56 Group/56 Group Wales publicity, 1964-[2007], including publicity officer's report; press reports; Group publicity statements; lists of invitees to private viewings; and related correspondence and printed emails.

AUDIO CASSETTE INCLUDED WITH THIS MATERIAL KEPT SEPARATELY AND MAY BE VIEWED ON REQUEST FROM:
CM 15708
CM 15709

Correspondence, 1965-1967 and undated, including circular letters, between Group secretary Mary Griffiths and Group members; letter, 1967, to Group treasurer David Tinker from Group member Ernest [Zobole]; members' biographical notes; booklet relating to an exhibition by Group member Jeffrey Steele; miscellaneous Group papers; and memoranda by Mary Griffiths.

Lists of 56 Group/56 Group Wales exhibitions, 1957-1999, including rough list of number of exhibitions, 1957-1991, in hand of Group secretary Mary Griffiths. Some folios annotated by Mary Griffiths and Group secretary Bob Weir.

Material relating to the 56 Group's A Selection of Small Works exhibition held at Exeter University, 1965, including correspondence of Group secretary Mary Griffiths with exhibiting artists, exhibition venue and other recipients; press release by Group treasurer David Tinker; and lists of exhibited works, with prices. Some folios annotated by Mary Griffiths.

Material relating to the 56 Group's 56/65 Contemporary Painting & Sculpture exhibition held at Newtown Library, 1965, comprising printed invitation to private viewing.

Lists of those 56 Group/56 Group Wales members owing subscription fees, 1965-1994, 1999-2000, with related correspondence, largely from Group secretaries Mary Griffiths and Julian Sheppard to Group members; list of Group members as of October 1974; list of Group members due to contribute towards exhibition opening, 1978; and receipt book, 1993-1994. Some folios annotated by Mary Griffiths and Group treasurer David Tinker.

Correspondence and related material, 1965-1968, 1973-1985, 1987-1989, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1999-2000, between Group secretaries Mary Griffiths, Julian Sheppard and Bob Weir and representatives in Sweden, Voroshilovgrad in the former Soviet Union (now Luhansk in the Ukraine), Poland, Portugal, Norway, the Netherlands, Italy, Germany, Finland, Denmark, Belgium, Spain and Switzerland, together with other correspondents, including the Welsh Arts Council (later the Arts Council of Wales), the British Council and the National Museum of Wales, regarding proposed overseas Group exhibitions and their funding; and memoranda by Mary Griffiths. Some folios annotated by Mary Griffiths and Bob Weir.

General material, [1965]-2010, relating to Group 56/Group 56 Wales exhibitions, including photographs and photographic slides, lists of exhibition catalogues and related correspondence.

Invoices and receipts relating to the purchase of 56 Group/56 Group Wales members' works, including sales from exhibitions at the Bear Lane Gallery, Oxford, 1965, 1967, the Grosvenor Gallery, London, [1969], and the Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh, 1969; together with related correspondence.

Catalogues, some undated, of joint exhibitions involving both Group members and other artists. One catalogue annotated by Group secretary Mary Griffiths.

Material relating to 56 Group exhibitions scheduled for 1966-1967, comprising correspondence, 1965-1966, between Group secretary Mary Griffiths, Group members and guest exhibitors and between Mary Griffiths and the Howard Roberts Gallery in Cardiff; and printed catalogue for the Group's cancelled Trends & Trendsetters exhibition due to have been held at the Howard Roberts Gallery in 1966. Some folios annotated by Mary Griffiths.