Reference Number2012.27/A/51
LevelItem
Extent1 Item
TitleSketchbook, 1979
Date1979
DescriptionHardback maroon sketchbook containing sketches, notes and designs towards drawings, 'Collection Belts', landscape and studio-based installation, freestanding and serial installations, poetry, presentation methodologies and sequences, projection, assemblages, pallisade enclosures, observation platforms, fire-branding, site-specific cut and branded tree trunks, stencil and watercolours. Imagery including set squares, agricultural tools, test-tubes, axes, hammers trees and branches, suspended objects, maps, constellations and star-charts, astronomy and the zodiac, landscapes and their profiles, studio space locations, orchards, navigation, wildlife, animal tracks, archery, maritime, branding irons, sheep shears, snakes, rock piles and 'The Old Man of Coniston' at Grizedale Forest, Lake District.
NotesInformation from Clare Rowe: The palisading to be specific to the Keir Smith's 'Realm of Taurus' site specific sculpture in Grizedale Forest (1979-1980) and 'Seven Stones Before the Old Man' (1982) and 'Walking With Paul' (1979-1981) watercolours.
Related MaterialBritish Library, National Life Stories: Artists' Lives interview, Track 19-20 (copy held in HMI Library). Also see related drawings, slides, catalogues and relevant publicity materials.
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