Front cover
The cover is inscribed 'RODNEY' and a National Union of Mineworkers sticker is attached to bottom right corner
- Date
- 1983–4
- Dimensions
- 215 × 150 mm















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The page is blank except for ink stain from following page.
- Date
- 1983–4
- Dimensions
- 210 × 145 mm



Page inscribed ‘HELL HATH NO FURY LIKE A NIGGERS SCORN’
- Date
- 1983–4
- Dimensions
- 210 × 145 mm


Sketch of two suitcases
Closed suitcase inscribed 'THIRD WORLD DEVELOPMENT' and open suitcase inscribed 'missionary'.
- Date
- 1983–4
- Dimensions
- 210 × 145 mm


Page inscribed ‘ALL THE FORTUNE SPENT ON DEATH cannot buy you one more breath of LIFE.’
- Date
- 1983–4
- Dimensions
- 210 × 145 mm

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The page is blank except for ink stain from following page.
- Date
- 1983–4
- Dimensions
- 210 × 145 mm

Sketch of nuclear bomb blast inscribed ‘WAR! BOOM! BOOM!’
- Date
- 1983–4
- Dimensions
- 210 × 145 mm





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The page is blank except for ink stain from following page.
- Date
- 1983–4
- Dimensions
- 210 × 145 mm






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The page is blank except for ink stain from following page.
- Date
- 1983–4
- Dimensions
- 210 × 145 mm


Blank page
The page is blank except for ink stain from following page.
- Date
- 1983–4
- Dimensions
- 210 × 145 mm


Blank page
The page is blank except for ink stain from following page.
- Date
- 1983–4
- Dimensions
- 210 × 145 mm


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The page is blank except for ink stain from following page.
- Date
- 1983–4
- Dimensions
- 210 × 145 mm

Sketch titled ‘BOX’
The sketch of a right arm with clenched fist and left clenched fist is inscribed 'EH EH BWANA' and 'FREEDOM'.
- Date
- 1983–4
- Dimensions
- 210 × 145 mm

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The page is blank except for ink stain from following page.
- Date
- 1983–4
- Dimensions
- 210 × 145 mm



Sketch of right arm and clenched fist inscribed ‘EH EH BWANA’
- Date
- 1983–4
- Dimensions
- 210 × 145 mm


Newspaper cutting of Hiroshima victim attached to page
- Date
- 1983–4
- Dimensions
- 210 × 145 mm


Page inscribed ‘HOME SWEET HOME BE it Humble and Stone concrete and cold ghetto and slum this is no HOME SWEET HOME’
- Date
- 1983–4
- Dimensions
- 210 × 145 mm

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The page is blank except for ink stain from following page.
- Date
- 1983–4
- Dimensions
- 210 × 145 mm


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The page is blank except for ink stain from following page.
- Date
- 1983–4
- Dimensions
- 210 × 145 mm



Sketch of three doors
The page is also inscribed 'City of Lost S-O-U-L-S'.
- Date
- 1983–4
- Dimensions
- 210 × 145 mm

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The page is blank except for ink stain from following page.
- Date
- 1983–4
- Dimensions
- 210 × 145 mm




Blank page
The page is blank except for ink stain from following page.
- Date
- 1983–4
- Dimensions
- 210 × 145 mm




Blank page
The page is blank except for ink stain from following page.
- Date
- 1983–4
- Dimensions
- 210 × 145 mm



Magazine cutting concerning British punk rock band, Sex Pistols.
- Date
- 1983–4
- Dimensions
- 210 × 145 mm



Newspaper cutting advertisement
The advertisement is for a porcelain ornament of Nipper, the dog who inspired Francis Barraud's His Master's Voice.
- Date
- 1983–4
- Dimensions
- 210 × 145 mm











Page inscribed ‘sharing a common heritage’
The page is also inscribed 'DIASPORA' and 'ANY DISPERSION OF A PEOPLE'.
- Date
- 1983–4
- Dimensions
- 210 × 145 mm


Sketch of dinner plate and cutlery inscribed ‘HUNGER’
The page is also inscribed 'To have and have not to starve and to hunger in 3d world poverty'.
- Date
- 1983–4
- Dimensions
- 210 × 145 mm


Sketch of dinner plate and cutlery
The page is also inscribed 'The WEST EATS The East starve' and 'Famine appeals for a meal'.
- Date
- 1983–4
- Dimensions
- 210 × 145 mm






Page inscribed ‘I LOOKED TO THE EAST AND SAW HUNGRY GRAY EYES’
- Date
- 1983–4
- Dimensions
- 210 × 145 mm









Sketch of three slide projectors and seated mummified figure
The sketch is possible preliminary work for 'Middle Passage', 1984.
- Date
- 1983–4
- Dimensions
- 210 × 145 mm


Sketch of dining table
The page is also inscribed 'Im not going to sit at your table and watch you eat with nothing on my plate and call myself a diner. Sitting at the table doesnt make you a diner...'
- Date
- 1983–4
- Dimensions
- 210 × 145 mm








Sketch of five clock faces showing various times
The page is also inscribed 'TIME WAITS FOR NO MAN AND TIMES RUNNING OUT NIGGER TIMES RUNNING OUT MAKE YOUR MOVE LETS MAKE OUR M-O-V-E N-O-W!
- Date
- 1983–4
- Dimensions
- 210 × 145 mm




Newspaper cutting attached to page concerning Wilfred Owen and his poem ‘Anthem For Doomed Youth’
- Date
- 1983–4
- Dimensions
- 210 × 145 mm



































Page inscribed ‘CHURCH OF THE NEW MESSIAHS’
Originally located between pages 124 and 125.
- Date
- 1983–4
- Dimensions
- 210 × 145 mm


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Image released under Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED
- Created by
- Donald Rodney 1961–1998
- Title
- Sketchbook number 4
- Date
- 1983–4
- Description
- Ink on paper, 76 pages plus covers, 215 × 150 mm
Contains sketches and notes on political and racial issues. - Format
- Bound volume - sketchbook
- Collection
- Tate Archive
- Acquisition
- The notebooks/sketchbooks were purchased from Diane Symons, on behalf of the Executors of the Estate of Donald Rodney with the remaining archives donated by the Executors, July 2003.
- Reference
- TGA 200321/3/4
Archive context
- Forty eight notebooks and sketchbooks written and created by Donald Rodney, and the personal archives of the artist TGA 200321 (48)
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- Sketchbooks and artwork TGA 200321/3 (48)
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- Sketchbook number 4 TGA 200321/3/4