Ref No2012.27/A/87
LevelItem
Extent1 item
TitleSketchbook, 1996
Date1996
DescriptionHardback black sketchbook containing sketches, notes, and designs towards sculpture, maquettes, commissions, assemblages, gallery exhibitions, freestanding and serial installations, research notes, presentation methodologies and sequences, fabrication ideas, bronze castings, fabrication notes for 'Stefano', Goodwood (1997) and 'The Tomb of Francesco', Ramsgate Library Gallery (1998) and Bishop's Stortford College (2000). Keir Smith reference to 'Camillio Stacks'. Imagery including funerary urns and tombs, saint iconography, human spleens, columns and monument plinths supporting various imagery, irregular forms, mountains and plateaus, pillboxes, classical and ecclesiastic architecture , doors and doorways; and cruciform shape.
NotesInformation from Clare Rowe: Keir Smith received the diagnosis of Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma early 1996.
Related MaterialBritish Library, National Life Stories: Artists' Lives interview, tracks 22-23 (copy held in HMI Library). Also drawings, slides, catalogues and relevant publicity materials. Solo catalogues: 'Ognissanti' by Keir Smith, The Barbican Centre (1998) and 'Enc
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