| Reference Number | 2013.90/F/4 |
| Level | File |
| Extent | 38 items |
| Title | Photographs of studio experiments at Butlers Wharf |
| Date | c.1975-1979, 1992 |
| Description | Forty black and white photographs of studio experiments carried out by Cripps at Butlers Wharf. The majority of experiments involve a pyrotechnic element. Includes images of Cripps throwing lit pieces of torn paper [/1-8]; Cripps dressed in protective clothing burning a [flysheet?] with an arc welder [/9-22]; and a [revolving?], burning object suspended from the ceiling by several lengths of rope [/31-34]. Other experiments involve Cripps dressed in an [asbestos?] suit [/23-28]; a [pendulum] device made from a motor arm [/29-30]; and lengths of [cassette tape?] attached to a speaker. /5 is marked in ink on the reverse in an unidentified hand, ‘Stephen Cripps Experiments, one of several copies with Cripps Trust. 1992’. Three photographs are glued onto a sheet of A4 paper [/33]. |
| Notes | /21 was used on the private view card for ‘Halo Lines’, The Acme Gallery, London, 12 July 1977. /1 and /22 featured in 'Stephen Cripps: Pyrotechnic Sculptor, A Monograph', published by ACME in association with the Stephen Cripps Trust, (1992), pp. 35-36. |
| Related Material | For negatives and contact sheets of the images see 2013.90/F/5-9 |