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Student scrapbook
Collection:CSM Museum & Study Collection
Date: 1980
Artist: Roderic Hill
Dimensions:
Sketchbook: 145 × 110 mm (14.5 × 11 cm)
Medium: Hardback scrapbook
Object number: F.2026.5.CC
DescriptionA small hardback scrapbook that Byam Shaw mature student, Roderic Hill, filled over the course of his studies. It has drawings, paintings, and collages inside the pages.
Description from his daughter, Maisie Hill:
Rod’s scrapbooks are, in the eyes of many who knew him, his most amazing artistic output. Scrapbooks are something of a dying art in our digital era, but were much of a common thing for people to do in earlier times. He went through a stage of getting bespoke blank books bound by a craftsperson (the books being something like a metre tall) and he’d put anything in them that caught his eye. This was usually a mixture of things taken from newspapers and magazines, bits and pieces of printed material and photos from everyday life and historic photos that (in later years) he bought from eBay. He would also collect bits of decorative paper (old wallpaper or drawer liners) and use them as backgrounds for his scrapbook and also apply lots of paint. They really need to be seen to be fully appreciated!
Description from his daughter, Maisie Hill:
Rod’s scrapbooks are, in the eyes of many who knew him, his most amazing artistic output. Scrapbooks are something of a dying art in our digital era, but were much of a common thing for people to do in earlier times. He went through a stage of getting bespoke blank books bound by a craftsperson (the books being something like a metre tall) and he’d put anything in them that caught his eye. This was usually a mixture of things taken from newspapers and magazines, bits and pieces of printed material and photos from everyday life and historic photos that (in later years) he bought from eBay. He would also collect bits of decorative paper (old wallpaper or drawer liners) and use them as backgrounds for his scrapbook and also apply lots of paint. They really need to be seen to be fully appreciated!