A review of the book.

Reference note:
Fieke Ainslie’s JAF (Johannesburg Art Foundation) archive augmented by Michael Gardiner’s JAF documents plus Ainslie memorabilia, and the JAF papers of Irene Menell and Susara Steenkamp.

Inventory of files and collections

Box 1 – files of documents

News clippings about Ainslie

File about Robert Motherwell

Seminar material for artists’ workshops

Lists of names and contacts

Compendious collection of JAF documents

File of “stuff and background”.

Box 2 – files and folders

Alex Art Centre

Thupelo

JAF financial matters

Two folders on JAF history

Collection of articles/speeches and talks by Ainslie

Articles from student newspaper NUX

Papers about the 1979 art conference at UCT

JAF seminar material

Articles by Ainslie in the 1961 Bulawayo Chronicle

Personal letters and drafts of testimonials

Photographs of Ainslie paintings

Documents re internal and external disputes

Locations of sold paintings

Invitations to Ainslie’s solo exhibition

Debates over abstraction

Obituaries

Reviews of exhibitions

JAF activity programmes

JAF newsletters

Ainslie Remembrance Fund documents

JAF history

Campaign to acquire the Saxonwold property

Arrangements with Peter Bradley

Lists of people associated with JAF

Yellow file of Ainslie miscellany e.g. sales, prices, etc.

Box 3 – multifarious JAF material

Early Ainslie history

Early JAF history

Material re Ricky Burnett

Triangle, Thupelo, Pachipamwe and FUBA

Interviews with many JAF associates

Interviews held by Vanessa Anderson in 1999 for her MA

Vanguard Foundation Annual Report 1976

MA Thesis on Ainslie and Koloane by Vanessa Anderson, volume 1. (Vol 2 is available electronically)

JAF workshop materials

Visual Arts Organisation

Open School (Colin Smuts)

Correspondence with the Gardiners

Attendees at the Fieke Ainslie memorial event

Assorted workshop and seminar material

Correspondence between Michael Gardiner and Sophia Ainslie re book

Centres of Creativity

Ainslie chronology

Dissolution of the JAF

Notes and articles x 2

Culture and Resistance Festival, Gaberone 1982.

Box 4 – JAF Council material : 1980 – 1992 +

Gardiner papers

Menell papers

Steenkamp papers

Maloon papers on Abstract Expression and recent art history.

Box 5 – mainly administration documents

Two sets of Council minutes

Greatmore proposal for Ainslie book

Article on Native American Culture and Abstract Expressionism

Notes and letters by Ainslie

Fund raising file

Trust documents

File re Ainslie Remembrance Education Trust matters

Review and letter to Fieke’s sister.

Box 6 – mixed JAF and outreach matters

USSALEP’s Black Artists’ Incentive Programme

Notes on I CHING and Jung plus …

Miscellaneous JAF matters

Papers and articles for seminars

Thupelo, Triangle workshops

Box 7 – JAF and the external world

About paint, gel and equipment costs

Financial statements

JAF reports

JAF gallery

Foundation Club

German Embassy

Netherlands Embassy

Swedish Embassy

United State Embassy

Mixed Embassy file

Funds and the Ainslie Remembrance Fund

?Irish Ainslie/Bailie heritage

Artists’ Workshop, UCT 1979

Triangle workshops ++

Slides.

Box 8 – mixed JAF affairs

JAF Constitution

Minutes of the Community Arts Centres meeting

JAD publicity material

The Bill Ainslie Educational Remembrance Fund (BAERT)

JAF fundraising

Maqhubela and Portway exhibition catalogue.

Box 9 – Other artists

David Koloane

Dumile Feni

Durandt Sihlali etc.

Box 10

Louis Maqhubela

Mongane Serote

Separate large file containing seminar and tutorial material.

Compiled by Michael Gardiner, June 2026

Ref: SA/2790