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Borodale, Sean, 1973- (poet and artist)

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Dates

  • Existence: 1973-

Biography

Sean Borodale was born in 1973 and works as an artist and writer, making scriptive and documentary poems written on location. He was Northern Arts Fellow of the Wordsworth Trust in 1999 and Guest Artist at the Rijksakademie, Amsterdam in 2002. From 2002-7 he was a teaching fellow at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London. His long topographical poem 'Notes for an Atlas' was performed in 2007 at the Southbank Centre's Royal Festival Hall, directed by Mark Rylance, as part of the first London Festival of Literature. Other projects include 'Grey Matter' with the artist Jonathan Houlding, which included a residency at the Fundacion Pilar i Joan Miro, Mallorca, in 2009. His first full-length collection of poems, 'Bee Journal', was published by Jonathan Cape in 2012.

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Sean Borodale

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10043/1
Scope and Contents Work by Sean Borodale arising from a residency at the Museum of Classical Archaeology. Includes photocopies of autograph drafts and word-processed document printouts of: 'Nike of Paionios in plaster of paris'; 'Shedding light on relayed original marks from archaic to recent times'; 'Another Nike'; 'Leminian Athena (like the small Kore)'; '604'; "In not trying to be too precise. . ."; 'Archaic head'; 'Cast gallery (without names)'; 'Light on original marks from ancient times'; 'Kore copy';...
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