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This file details the history of Trafalgar Square; lists of artists invited to submit ideas and patrons supporting the initiative; there are also descriptions and photocopied drawings of the proposals presumably shortlisted for the project including those finally chosen (Mark Wallinger, Rachel Whiteread and Bill Woodrow).

Rose Garrard worked with architects Levitt Bernstein on the design of new community buildings for Holly Street Estate in Dalston, London. The project included a nursery and day centre for older people. Garrard involved users of the building in the design process and helped to improve the environment and systems of support and communication during the development work. The project was completed in 1995. Client: Holly Street Public Arts. Award value £9,500.

Peter Fink worked on this new school complex with architets Plincke Leaman & Browning. The design of the school reflects the open and flexible atmosphere in which the learning process takes place. Fink undertook conceptual exploration which led to specific detailed designs incorporating art into the physical fabric of the buildings and surrounding landscape. Client: West Sussex County Council. Award value £4,500.

RH The Duke of Edinburgh visiting the Society's Exhibition of Humorous Art, 1949

RH The Duke of Edinburgh visiting the Society's Exhibition of Humorous Art, 1949

Exhibitions

Exhibitions

In his lecture 'Humour in Art' given to the Society in February 1949, H M Bateman had proposed a permanent National Gallery of Humorous Art, in which to display the many original drawings of published comic art, which currently languished in back offices, or in corners of studios, and never seen by the public. \nAs a tentative beginning the Society, at the suggestion of its Chairman of Council, Sir Harry Lindsay KCIE, CBE, organised a temporary exhibition of 162 drawings of the work of more than fifty artists, ranging from Rowlandson and Gillray, to Osbert Lancaster and E H Shepard, Emett and Giles. With the help of Kenneth Bird, the editor of Punch, H M Bateman and Anna Zinkeisen, RDI, the Society was able to arrange an interesting display in the Society's Library (located at this time in what is now the Benjamin Franklin Room), which was open to the public free of charge.\nEncouraged by the steady flow of visitors, by the end of the second week 7,091 people had visited the exhibition, including HRH The Duke of Edinburgh (President, RSA 1952-2011) and The Duchess of Kent. The Council decided to postpone the closing day until Saturday 13 August, and to extend the daily opening hours to 6.30pm on weekdays, including Saturdays and the August Bank Holiday. 14,000 people had passed through the doors by the end of the exhibition, and as there was still a great public interest, the Society was able to arrange for the exhibition to travel round the country from October 1949 to April 1950, showing at Hove, Coventry, Salford, Preston, Liverpool, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Lincoln, Hull and Leicester. It has been estimated that a further 40,000 people saw it in the course of this tour. The exhibition also received press coverage worldwide in newspapers and magazines such as Picture Post, Illustrated London News, The Spectator and two pages in the BBC Arabic News. Coverage also featured in television and cinema newsreels. But in spite of all this interest Bateman's original idea for a National Gallery of Humorous Art never came to life.\n\nRecords include correspondence and papers about arrangements for the exhibition, a catalogue and printed material and photographs

Ian Hamilton Finlan and Peter Randall-Page worked with Page & Park architects to create a new public space in the centre of Edinburgh, as part of the transformation of the Royal Mile. Artists and architect created a tranquil pedestrian area which evokes contrasting aspects of the history of Edinburgh. The project was completed in 1996. Client: The Royal Mile Team, Lothian Regional Council. Award value £7,500.

Contains an entry form, correspondence, music score 'Greenworld' and a description.

Tania Kovats worked with Levitt Bernstein Associates on the restoration and extension of a Grade II listed Victorian school. This new home for the Ikon Gallery provides much needed improved exhibition, education and visitor facilities. Kovats' involvement in the design process is most evident in the black slate frieze, upon which the gallery has been placed. The frieze forcefully accentuates an existing practical feature and turns it into a pedestal which transforms the gallery into an object of attention.The project was completed in 1997. Client: Ikon Gallery. Award value £10,000.

Most of the images relate to the Fourth Plinth Debate held on 24/1/2000.