Reference Number2012.27/A/44
LevelItem
Extent1 Item
TitleSketchbook, 1978
Date1978
DescriptionHardback maroon sketchbook containing sketches, notes and designs towards wall mounted work, gallery and studio installations, freestanding and serial installations, presentation methodologies, assemblages, photography, stencils, small tableauxs, 'Collection Belts', casting in lead, plaster or wax, self-portrait with objects, landscape activities, the presentation of titles and artist books (Keir Smith references 'Book with steel covers'). Imagery including suspended rocks, constellations, fossils, test tubes, landscape horizons, set squares, burners, hand picks, geology, axes, mythological nude figure, self-portrait with 'large neck(lace)', 'flint arenas', handprints, animal tracks, agriculture, agricultural and cosmological relationship, corn and wheat, trees and observatories. Also references to 'alchemical sign for water'; 'Device to collect rainwater'; 'Self portrait as Janus'; 'two types of civilisation' and 'Photographic idea'.
NotesInformation from Clare Rowe: self portrait with 'large neck(lace)' precedes later bronze works 'Ognissanti', The Curve, Barbican Centre, London (1998). Works towards 'Speculations', Hatton Gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne (1979) and 'Like Nimrod's Tower', Acme Gallery, London (1980).
Related MaterialBritish Library, National Life Stories: Artists' Lives interview (copy held in HMI Library). Also see photocopied sketchbook dated 1978, reference 2012.27/A/68 and related drawings, slides, catalogues and relevant publicity materials. And 'Browns Nautical
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