Ref No2012.27/A/64
LevelItem
Extent1 Item
TitleSketchbook, c.1986 -1987
Datec.1986 - 1987
DescriptionHardback black sketchbook containing sketches, notes, and designs towards railway sleeper carvings, rust, pen and ink drawings, wood and stone carving, assemblages, maquettes, self-portraiture, site-specific and gallery installations, commissions, freestanding and serial installations, presentation methodologies and sequences. Imagery including industrial architecture, self-portraiture, maritime vessels, clouds, fire, human anatomy, feathers, rockets, coastal landscapes, lightning bolts, classical architecture, railway tracks, architectural ruins, pyramids, mountains, stone axes and sunburst. Keir Smith references 'Holbeck Triangle' commission, [for a public sculpture to be sited adjacent to Leeds Railway Station], 'For Guildford Hospital', 'For Kettles Yard' and 'Posterngate'
NotesInformation from Clare Rowe: 'Eremitani' drawings.
Related MaterialBritish Library, National Life Stories: Artists' Lives interview, (copy held in HMI Library). Also see drawings, slides, catalogues and relevant publicity material. Solo exhibition catalogue, 'The Dreaming Track' by Keir Smith, Laing Art Gallery (1989).
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