Includes a smiling Valerie in her home in Florida with cast sculptures, paintings, framed pictures, and a living room behind her; "Val Ambrose / Florida, 2010" verso. Has small white border and is glossy.
Inscribed 'Dave Cohen - Lys Hansen/ Pete Bevan/JC'. Sketches, mostly portraits, and notes regarding exhibition. Also a design for fish plates, and biblical references.
Inscribed 'Jimmy Cosgrove Amsterdam, April 1988. Ken Mitchell, Tom Chambers'. Also entitled "A book of dreams" on the first page. Sketches of abstract figures and animals. Some mythological and biblical references.
A4 sized paper scan of a black and white blown up image of a lady in white patterned headscarf. Verso " Mrs Kopaloff - 88 yrs - Stepney, East London / 1977 / A reduced cope of the original, part of our / exhibition of East End Faces, held at / Toynbee Hall - The Universities' Settlement in East London." Per DC 101/3/1, Mrs Kopaloff was sitting at her kitchen table in her pre-fabricated home shelling peas. She had escaped from Jewish persecution in Lithuania and found refuge in the United Kingdom; Veronica Matthew knew her well.
Folder containing contact sheets and negatives of photographs of people taken by George Oliver. Most are annotated. Also includes a typed list of the people photographed and two typed letters. Includes: Scottish Theatre Company rehearsing, Stan Tracey at the Third Eye Centre, and Ian McKenzie Smith.
This item was badly damaged in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014. It was assessed by a conservator but no conservation work was deemed possible.
Includes a business card with a sculpture and two oil paintings as images along the top. Written below "Valerie Bloomfield-Ambrose / Portrait painter and sculptor" and address.
Folder containing black and white contact sheets and negatives of photographs of people taken by George Oliver. Also contains a typed alphabetical list of the people photographed. Includes: Whoopi Goldberg performing at the Third Eye in 1984, Sir Alexander Gibson, Alasdair Gray and Allen Ginsberg at Traverse Theatre.
