Reference Number2012.27/A/45
LevelItem
Extent4 Items
TitleSketchbook, 1978
Date1978
DescriptionHardback maroon sketchbook containing sketches, notes and designs towards drawings, wall mounted work, studio installations, freestanding and serial installations, assemblages, presentation methodologies and sequences, 'Collection Belts', performative work, navigation devices, pressing devices, tripod viewing devices, implementation of plant pigment, test-tube racks, projection, self-portraiture, rabbit traps, agricultural processes, navigation devices and a biomechanical arm drawing device. Imagery including Napoleonic and Iron Age fortification plans, 'Collection Belts', flint tools, landscapes, studio space locations, axes, pruning knives recurring tree and branches, tool and drawing kits, suspended rocks, set squares, maps, constellations and star-charts, celestial bodies, astronomy and the zodiac, suspended objects, fossils, test-tubes, spilling sandbags, agricultural tools, firearms, tripods, "Thames Barge nail", orchards, nails, Keir Smith's knapsack and a Swan's feather. Also one loose London Electricity Board electricity bill leaflet and one loose aerial photograph of a landscape.
NotesInformation from Clare Rowe: Notes last date in the book by Keir Smith '15.10.78'. Also Keir Smith's reference to 'Becoming Shu' and 'The Six Stages of Becoming Shu' as a title for a work.
Related MaterialBritish Library, National Life Stories: Artists' Lives interview, Track 17. Clare Rowe notes Keir Smith's reference to philosophers 'Ficino' [Marsello Ficino, 1433-1499] 'Campanella' [Tommaso Campanella, 1568-1639], 'Pico Della Mirandola' [Giovanni Pico D
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