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A-1 Wastepaper

A.I. Wastpaper Co. Ltd.
33 Shipbrook Road
Rudheath
Northwich
Cheshire CW9 7EX
United Kingdom

Founder
Michael Leigh

Date founded
1980

Approximate number of works
160,000+

Approximate yearly additions
800+

Focus
MAIL ART

Organization/display methods
In cardboard boxes around the house - disorganized in the extreme!

Public access
This is a private archive, although I try to show as much of it as possible in exhibitions etc.

Approximate yearly cost
Nil

Relation to larger institutions
I try to promote it whenever possible. Trying to get a grant to catalogue it but no luck so far. Organized "Weirdorama" at Walsall Gallery, 1993, and "Michael Scott Memorial," part of IM98, in London, 1998.

What is your motive for maintaining the archive?
Natural hoarding instinct.
Although I started seriously in 1980 my archive contains many works from 1960s and '70s, as I was part of a small group of friends who regularly sent "mail art," although we didn't know it at the time.

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