'The gallery-going public has a very fixed idea of what is art. There's been a certain nervousness about folk art or fairground art. but it's all changing. People are getting much more conscious of other fields of creative activity.'
The 73-year-old sculptor Sam Smith talks to ED
WARDLUCIE-SMITH about his, small-scale painted wood figures and boats, which deal humorously with human behaviour, sex, marriage, old age and death.
Producer JUDITH BUMPUS
(.The Arts Council retrospective exhibition oj works by Sam Smith opens at the Serpentine Gallery next Friday)
(Don McCullin : 10 Dee)