New digital archive celebrates forgotten British sculptor

Peter King's untimely death at the age of twenty-nine has meant that he has been largely omitted from the history of 1950s British art. Now his work is being made available to a wider audience, through a digitising project carried out by the artist's son, Dr Mike King, at London Metropolitan University, and funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

A sample collection with 51 entries is now available to search online at VADS: http://www.vads.ahds.ac.uk/collections/PKA.html

When published, the full archive will contain over 1,000 entries, giving a detailed picture of the life and work of the artist.

Photographing the changing face of the East End

A collection of images of London's East End, captured by award-winning photographer Paul Trevor, are now available to view online at VADS: http://www.vads.ahds.ac.uk/search.php

Academics and artists at London Metropolitan University have been working with photographer Paul Trevor to make a selection of his images of East London digitally available to artists, students and researchers. The Collection includes 500 images (chosen from a total of 120,000) of the Spitalfields area from the 1970s to the 1990s, a period of rapid social and physical change.

Frederick Parker Chair Collection launched online

A unique collection of chairs amassed by Frederick Parker & Sons, later Parker Knoll Ltd, has been fully catalogued and digitised and is now available to view online at VADS: http://www.vads.ahds.ac.uk/collections/FPC.html

The chair collection demonstrates 350 years of British chair design and manufacture. They are part of the Frederick Parker Collection that also includes a collection of carvings and the Frederick Parker Company archive.