Ref No2012.27/A/55
LevelItem
Extent1 Item
TitleSketchbook, 1981
Date1981
DescriptionHardback black sketchbook containing sketches, notes and designs towards gallery installations, assemblages, freestanding and serial installations, presentation methodologies and configurations, wax & plaster casting, woodcarving, chalk stencils, 'Collection Belts', fixing techniques and copper etching. Imagery including landscapes, mountains, 'Old Man of Coniston' landscape profile, fossils, animal tracks, mining, geology, quarries, nails, maritime artefacts, ship hull cross-sections and timbers, agricultural tools including axes, sickles and hammers; snakes, slugs, grain constellations and star-charts, grids, set-squares and poster designs for Keir Smith's exhibition 'Ceres', Spectro Gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne, (1981)
NotesInformation from Clare Rowe: These are works towards Keir Smith's exhibitions: 'Ceres'. Spectro Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne (1981); 'Sailing Ancient Seas', Ceolfrith Gallery & Ikon Gallery (1982).
Related MaterialBritish Library, National Life Stories: Artists' Lives interview, Track 20 (copy held in HMI Library). Also see drawings, slides, catalogues and relevant publicity material.
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