Reference Number2012.27/A/68
LevelItem
Extent1 Item
TitlePhotocopy of sketchbook, 1978
Date1978
DescriptionPhotocopied sketchbook containing sketches, notes, and designs towards assemblages, photography, drawing, 'Collection Belts', book-making process, stencils, wax and plaster castings, self-portraiture, projection, site-specific and gallery installations, freestanding and serial installations, presentation methodologies and sequences, landscape activities, poster design for the 'Hatton Gallery' and steel templates. Imagery including trees and branches, handprints, flints, blow torches, constellations, self portraits, observatories, axes, maps, geology, field geography, agriculture and orchards. Keir Smith references 'small clearing', 'on becoming an Egyptian God', 'The Earth is Geb...' and 'Cosenden Wood'.
NotesInformation from Clare Rowe: These are works towards Keir Smith's exhibitions 'Speculations', Hatton Gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne (1979) and 'Like Nimrod's Tower', Acme Gallery, London (1980). Original sketchbook may be held by Birmingham City Art Gallery
Related MaterialBritish Library, National Life Stories: Artists' Lives interview (copy held in HMI Library). Also see sketchbooks dating from 1978, references 2012.27/A/44 - 48 ; also drawings, slides, catalogues and relevant publicity material. Solo exhibition catalogue
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