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

Ref No	2012.27/A/42
Level	Item
Extent	1 Item
Title	Sketchbook, 1976
Date	1976
Description	Hardback maroon sketchbook containing sketches, notes and designs towards drawings, paintings, drawing and painting processes, spray painting installations, wall/floor constructions, assemblages, freestanding installations, wall/floor constructions, drawings on slate, constructions experimenting with physical tension, juxtapositions of scientific and mythological methods of navigation and astronomy (modern vs ancient), tool construction, presentation displays, juxtaposing freestanding and suspended assemblages for mark-making. Imagery including natural landscapes, constellations, star charts, grids, frames, drawing tables, studio space locations, easels, tripods, flint tools, troughs, light boxes, totems, pillars, rock piles, balancing formations, image and studio becoming extensions of one-another, suspended objects, volcano image, tree branches, fossils and Keir Smith's knapsack. Keir Smith references Egyptian deities Shu, Nut and Geb and 'rival ideologies'. Also notes 'Drawing as the recording of an activity as a recording of a phenomenon.'
Notes	Information from Clare Rowe: Three landscape drawings as near Keir Smith's childhood home in Istead Rise, including reference to 'NC' [Nurstead Church].
Related Material	British Library, National Life Stories: Artists' Lives interview (copy held in HMI Library). Also see related drawings, slides, catalogues and relevant publicity materials.

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