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2012.27 - 2012.27 - Collection - 132 boxes
- A - 2012.27/A - Series - 121 items

Ref No	2012.27/A/40
Level	Item
Extent	1 Item
Title	Sketchbook, 1976
Date	1976
Description	Hardback black sketchbook dating from fellowship at Cardiff College Of Art containing sketches, notes and designs towards drawings, paintings, outdoor installations, autonomously performative installations, serial installations, freestanding installations, sandboxes, experimenting with physical tensions, construction and painting techniques, utilizing electrical sources, drawings and paintings on slate, presentation methodologies and sequences. Imagery including landscapes, troughs, flint tools and chopped logs, counterweighted mirrors on tripods, rocks, balancing formations, studio space and outdoor locations, tools in trays, handmade tools, frames, suspended formations, studio space and outdoor locations, ritualistically precisely placed objects, grids, supporting frames and tree trunks.
Notes	Information from Clare Rowe: Keir Smith notes on first drawing inside front cover, 'This drawing was done in Montmartre.' and sketches are referencing Paul Nash (1889 - 1946). The sketchbook also appears to show Keir Smith consolidating ideas from Cardiff and evidences notes and early drawing towards 'Collection Belts'.
Related Material	Keir Smith 'Walking With Paul' (1979 -1982),'Flint Axe', 'Collection Belts'.

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