Reference Number2012.27/A/63
LevelItem
Extent1 Item
TitleSketchbook, c.1986 -1988
Datec.1984 - 1985
DescriptionHardback black sketchbook containing sketches, notes, and designs towards railway sleeper carvings, drawings, wood and stone carving, drawings, assemblages, maquettes, self-portraiture, site-specific and gallery installations, commissions, freestanding and serial installations, presentation methodologies and sequences, self-portraiture, stainless steel and bronze work. Imagery including volcanoes, mountains, ship sails, rockets, flags (pennants), human anatomy, industrial architecture, clouds, architectural ruins, coastal landscapes, rainbows, animal tracks, maritime vessels, quarries, convolvulus, snakes and wings. Keir Smith references his sculptures, 'The Last Rays For An English Rose' and 'Iron Band that binds green heart'. Also 'Wandsworth' and 'For Kew. The Lexicon'
NotesInformation from Clare Rowe:'Eremitani' drawings.
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, 'The Dreaming Track' by Keir Smith, Laing Art Gallery (1989).
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