# deannapetherbridge.com ## Posts - [Hello world!](https://deannapetherbridge.com/hello-world/): Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing! ## Pages - [Archive & Library](https://deannapetherbridge.com/archive-library/): Archive The Deanna Petherbridge Archive is held at the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London. The archive comprises material created and collected by Petherbridge throughout her professional life, spanning from the 1960s to the 2020s. An exceptionally rich resource, the archive offers detailed insight into her wide-ranging career as an artist, writer, curator, and educationalist; the incredibly varied initiatives with which she was involved; and her extensive travel.  A particular highlight is a series of more than 150 ‘Annual Files’, which record her extensive professional outputs and diverse interests across decades of practice. These files provide a […] - [Estate Collection](https://deannapetherbridge.com/estate-collection/): ↑ Selected Works in Estate Collection - [Selected Press](https://deannapetherbridge.com/selected-press/): Selected Press 2 0 2 1 ‘Deanna Petherbridge’ in Vitamin D3: Today’s Best in Contemporary Drawing‘, George Vasey, Phaidon Press Limited, London & New York, 2021 ‘Reflections on a ruined homeland‘, Ammar Azzouz, Vol.24, Issue 1-2, City, 24 (1–2), pp.178–194 , 24 March, 2020   2 0 1 9 Future Cities: Architecture and the Imagination, Paul Dobraszczyk, London: Reaktion Books, pp.182 – 184, 2019 2 0 1 3 ‘Here be Monsters’, Marina Warner, The New York Review of Books, 19 December, 2013 ‘Witches and Wicked Bodies’, Lyndsey Mackay, Museums Journal, October 2013 ‘History’s bad girl, Rachel Spence, Financial Times, 31 August/1 September, 2013 “Here’s one I […] - [Commissioned Artworks](https://deannapetherbridge.com/commissioned-artworks/): Commissioned artworks 1 9 9 1Mural on four floors of the drum wall of the Concert Hall, International Convention Centre, Birmingham 1 9 9 0Set & costume designs for Bloodlines, The Royal Ballet, Covent Garden, London (choreographer Ashley Page) 1 9 8 9Drawing for Artist’s Records Committee, Imperial War Museum 1 9 8 6Set & costume designs for One by Nine, The Royal Ballet, Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London (choreographer Jennifer Jackson) 1 9 8 4Set & costume designs for A Broken Set of Rules, The Royal Ballet, Covent Garden (choreographer Ashley Page) 1 9 7 2Lift-shaft Mural commissions, private residence, Hampstead, London 1 […] - [Private Collections](https://deannapetherbridge.com/privatecollections/): ↑ Selected works in Private Collections - [page contact](https://deannapetherbridge.com/contact/): For all enquiries, please contact:info@deannapetherbridge.com - [Museum & Public Collections](https://deannapetherbridge.com/museum-public-collections/): ↑ Museum & Public Collections Click institution to view works held, or browse the full list below. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford Arts Council Collection, United Kingdom Arup Collection, London BAT – The Foundation for Essex Arts, Basildon, Essex Birmingham City Art Gallery, Birmingham Bristol City Art Gallery & Museum, Bristol British Council Collection, United Kingdom British Museum, London Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon The Courtauld Gallery, London Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles Government Art Collection, United Kingdom Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Preston The Hunterian Museum & Art Gallery, Glasgow Imperial War Museum, London London […] - [Teaching & Lectures](https://deannapetherbridge.com/public-lectures/): Teaching & Lectures Deanna Petherbridge held teaching and research posts at leading art and architecture institutions in the UK and internationally. She taught at the Architectural Association, the University of Reading, Middlesex Polytechnic, and was Professor of Drawing at the Royal College of Art, where she founded the Centre for Drawing Research. She later held professorial and emeritus positions at the University of the West of England and the University of Lincoln. Alongside her academic roles, Petherbridge delivered lectures, conference papers, and extended public lecture series at major institutions including Tate, the National Gallery, and the BBC, and undertook international […] - [Curated Exhibitions](https://deannapetherbridge.com/curated-exhibitions/): Curated Exhibitions Deanna Petherbridge curated and co-curated a number of significant exhibitions exploring drawing, anatomy, medicine, and artistic process. Her curatorial work was characterised by a trans-historical approach, bringing contemporary practice into dialogue with historical material, and was presented at major museums and institutions in the UK and internationally. 2 0 18   Artists at Work, The Drawings Gallery, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN, 3rd May -15th July 2018  Co-curated with Anita Sganzerla & Ketty Gottardo 2 0 1 4 – 2 0 1 5  Witches & Wicked Bodies, Prints & Drawings Gallery, The British Museum, […] - [Publications](https://deannapetherbridge.com/publications/): Publications Deanna Petherbridge authored numerous catalogue essays and book chapters, and published widely in academic journals on both contemporary and historical issues in art and architecture, with a particular focus on drawing. Her writing appeared regularly in publications including Architectural Review, Art Monthly, Architects’ Journal, Crafts Magazine, Building Design and the Financial Times. Petherbridge’s book The Primacy of Drawing: Histories & Theories of Practice, Yale University Press was published June 2010 in the USA and UK. It examines the importance of drawing as significant practice in Western art history from the fifteenth century as well as its relevance to contemporary artists working with multiple practices: the […] - [Exhibitions](https://deannapetherbridge.com/exhibitions/): Solo Exhibitions 2 0 2 2 Deanna Petherbridge: Drawing and the Domain of Politics – New Works on PaperArt Space Gallery | Michael Richardson Contemporary Art 84 St Peter’s Street, London N1 8JS 25 February – 24 March 2 0 1 7Places of Change & Destruction, Drawings 2017 Art Space Gallery | Michael Richardson Contemporary Art 84 St Peter’s Street, London N1 8JS 6th September – 14th October 2 0 1 6Deanna PetherbridgeWhitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester December 2016 – June 2017 Reviews:Holding the Line, by Pamela Buxton (RIBA Journal, April 2017, pp. 99-100) www.ribaj.com/culture/deanna-petherbridge ‘Deanna Petherbridge: ‘Drawing can be a million different things, but I think […] - [Drawings](https://deannapetherbridge.com/drawing/): Drawings Deanna Petherbridge turned to monochromatic pen and ink drawing in the 1970s, developing a distinctive practice rooted in architecture, landscape, and reflections on place. Her work often explores historical structures, vernacular buildings, and symbolic representations of conflict. Deanna Petherbridge’s drawing practice is represented across museums and public collections, private collections, and the artist’s estate. Her drawings have also been developed through commissions and presented in exhibitions internationally. Museum & Public Collections Private Collections Estate Collection Commissioned Artworks Exhibitions - [Biography](https://deannapetherbridge.com/biography/): Biography Deanna Petherbridge CBE (11 February 1939 – 8 January 2024) was an artist, writer and curator primarily concerned with drawing. Her practice was drawing-based (predominantly pen & ink drawings on paper), although she also produced large-scale murals and designed for the theatre. Since the early 1990’s Petherbridge promoted the importance of drawing in relation to contemporary art practice in journal articles, books, catalogues, exhibitions, public lectures and conference papers including the series Drawing towards Enquiry at the National Gallery in London in 2006, in association with the University of the Arts, and Camberwell School of Art. In addition to articles, […] [comment]: # (Generated by Hostinger Tools Plugin)