Teaching material and Elam faculty files

The collection consists mainly of material relating to Jim Allen’s teaching at the Elam School of Fine Arts and his professional sculptural commissions produced during the 1960s and 1970s.

Documents produced as part of Allen’s tenure at Elam School of Fine Arts (1960-1977) include Faculty of Fine Arts meeting minutes, correspondence, time-tables and course material.

Material relating to Allen’s art practice includes contracts and documentation of commissioned works, with financial records, associated ephemera and press cuttings for projects undertaken between 1959 and 1971. Commissions include sculptural works produced for sites throughout New Zealand from both public and private organisations and range from sculptures, fountains, sculptural murals and stained glass windows.