Reference Number2012.27/A/59
LevelItem
Extent2 Items
TitleSketchbook, 1983
Date1983
DescriptionHardback black sketchbook containing sketches, notes, and designs towards gallery installations, assemblages, freestanding and serial installations, maquettes, presentation methodologies and sequences, stone and wood carvings, self-portrait, bust sculpture (Keir Smith references 'Mariner portraits"'), stencils (Keir Smith also references 'Stencils to make...already made') and drawing tables. Imagery including clouds, harbours, islands, feathers, estuaries, nails, chains with cuffs, gun barrels, marine wildlife (skate), fossils, geology, cruciform shapes, maritime artefacts, islands, landscapes, eels, arrowheads and ship timbers. Keir Smith's credit card statement inserted, dated 2 November 1983
NotesInformation from Clare Rowe: These are works towards Keir Smith's exhibition: 'Dendron', Yorkshire Sculpture Park (1983).
Related MaterialBritish Library, National Life Stories: Artists' Lives interview, (copy held in HMI Library). Also see drawings, slides, catalogues and relevant publicity material. Solo exhibition catalogue: 'Navigator' by Robert Ayers, Rochdale Art Gallery (1985).
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