Ref No2012.27/A/39
LevelItem
Extent10 Items
TitleSketchbook, 1976
Date1976
DescriptionHardback black sketchbook dating from fellowship at Cardiff College Of Art containing sketches, notes and designs towards drawings, experiments in indoor and outdoor installations, autonomously performative installations, serial installations, freestanding installations, the autonomous interplay of light (which Keir Smith references as "Outside Sun Sculpture"), experimenting with physical tensions, fire troughs, construction and destruction techniques, floating objects, balancing formations and personal thoughts. Imagery including counterweighted mirrors on tripods, geometric shapes, grids, constructions, wedges, pyramid shapes, rocks, balancing formations, landscapes, rocks crushing grids, fire, studio space and outdoor locations, hammers and knives, pyramid shapes, fossils, suspended objects, 'plumb-bob', flint tools and reflecting light. Three loose drawings on paper inserted [ii], [iv] and [v]. One loose drawing photocopy on paper inserted [iii]. One loose receipt plus carbon copy for Craely's Professional Services dated ‘27/7/76’ [vi]. Two loose empty envelopes; one from Cardiff College of Art; one from ‘Dr. J.N. Todd, Specialist in Community Medicine’ [vii-viii]. One loose A4 typed letter to KS from The ACME Gallery dated 16 August 1977 regarding a proposal for a show [ix]. One loose A4 typed letter in its envelope from Student Adviser's Office, US-UK Educational Commission to Keir Smith dated October 1975 for ‘Opportunities for Teachers in the United States’ [x]
NotesInformation from Clare Rowe: Keir Smith reference to "…a walk with J.G. in the Brecons…" is John Groome.
Related MaterialBritish Library, National Life Stories: Artists' Lives interview, Track 16-17 (copy held in HMI Library). Also see related drawings, slides, catalogues and relevant publicity materials.
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