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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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