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Reference Number	2012.27/A/47
Level	Item
Extent	2 Items
Title	Sketchbook, 1978
Date	1978-1979
Description	Hardback maroon sketchbook containing sketches, notes and designs towards casting, self-portraiture, landscapes wall mounted work, assemblages, studio installations, freestanding and serial installations, presentation methodologies, ink rolling, projection, 'Threatening Behaviour Towards Trees. 28.10.78.', exhibition posters ('Speculations. Hatton Gallery') and typography and catalogue for Acme Gallery, heartbeat tape recording, book projects and brass templates. Imagery including 'Collection Belts', surveying equipment, set squares, agricultural tools, axes, bow-saw, trees and branches, suspended objects, flint tools, maps, constellations and star-charts, astronomy and the zodiac, test-tubes, landscapes, studio space locations, orchards, Roman and Celtic archaeological sites, tents, phases of the moon and floor grids. Keir Smith references to 'Becoming Shu' and 'Proposal for Grizedale Forest'. Yellow piece of paper with notes inserted.
Notes	Information from Clare Rowe: Notes this work to have taken place during Keir Smith's time at Butlers Wharf studio.
Related Material	British Library, National Life Stories: Artists' Lives interview, Track 17-18 (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.

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