Ref No2012.27/A/79
LevelItem
Extent1 item
TitleSketchbook, 1994 - 1999
Date1994 - 1999
DescriptionHardback black sketchbook containing sketches, notes, and designs towards drawings [for 'Cremona Wilderness' Series], sculptures, maquettes, gallery exhibitions ['Ognissanti', The Curve, Barbican Centre, London.1998 and 'Fragments from the Origin of the Crown', Keir Smith, In the Chapter House of Lincoln Cathedral. 2001], assemblages, freestanding and serial installations, presentation methodologies and sequences and fabrication ideas, digital drawings, typography on iron gravestones and notes of saints, addresses, lists and reminders. Imagery including funerary urns and tombs ['Annunciation Vases',1999], ecclesiastical architecture, Italian Renaissance iconography, apples and gourds, irregular forms, thorny branches, lilies and roses, tower blocks, towers and columns, and classical architecture. Keir Smith reference, 'Further additions to Tomb of Francesco', 'Essay, Barbara's tower', 'Iron Tombs in Wadhurst', 'Rondini' [Carlo Crivelli, 'Madonna della Rondine', Altarpiece and Predella), and 'Lotto presentation from Loretto'.
Related MaterialBritish Library, National Life Stories: Artists' Lives interview, (copy held in HMI Library). Also drawings, slides, catalogues and relevant publicity materials. Solo catalogues: 'Ognissanti' by Keir Smith, The Barbican Centre (1998); 'Towards the Eremita
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