Glasgow: Wax366, 2021 15 x 10.5cm, 12pp (self cover). Hand made artist's book each with paint sprayed on the pages and with pre war 1p and half-penny coins in a glassine small pocket. This is one of Bellingham's "sprayed on demand" books where each is made for a cleint - and rarely more than 30 in total are made. VG+. ...
Bruxelles: MorePublishers, 2021 50 x 70cm, laser cut on 400 g cardboard (400 gr.) with the text with the text: "A TIME AND A PLACE AT SOME POINT IN THE FUTURE E.G. TWO WEEKS FROM HERE" - which places the work in Monk's eries of "meetings" (where the artist arranges a meeting but may or may not turn up). This is one of a signed & numbered edition of 20 (+ 5 A.P.) unopened in original mailing box. Mint....
54 x 10cm dia. (approx). Expanding foam and nylon sleeve with wall attachment. A unique sculptural work designed to abut out from a wall at 90 degrees. An early work by the artist. VG+. ...
40 x 37 x 4cm (approx) two part wooden and plastic toilet seat with applied digital image on adhesive label of Turner's "Light and Colour (Goethe’s Theory) – The Morning after the Deluge – Moses Writing the Book of Genesis" from 1843. A unique work shown in series along with other famous images from art history all placed on such seats. Mint and thankfully unused....
Essex: Fithsyllable, n.d. (2021)
16 x 11.5cm, grey foil stamped boards content of a 32pp concertina folded sheet displaying a selection of people looking at art (with the art not being shown) taken by Monk from the internet. This is one of only 50 such books produced. VG+. Very scarce. ...
Glasgow: Elke Finkenauer, 2016 6 x 16cm (approx), strip of vegan bacon in plastic bag sealed with tape along with a 15 x 21cm, 4pp homemade card with a photographic image by the artist. Inside the card is a lengthy pencil note from the artist to Paul Robertson noting the "bacon" was a part of her Approximately Bacon installation and wishing Robertson well during the COVID -19 lock-down. AN original relic from the show. Limitation unknown but not many. All VG+. ...
Edinburgh: Sarah Muirhead, 2020 9 x 6.5cm printed white cardboard box content of 52 different playing cards with each back a different reproduction of a small painting by Muirhead. During the 2020 first Covid lockdown, the artist painted 53 different small paintings on cards (each commissioned by a different person) with the imagery being in the main sexual (and taboo) imagery. This is the full set of cards issued in only 50 examples with the box signed in pencil on the outside by Muirhead, dated and numbered. VG+. ...
30 x 22.3cm, found advertising page from a woman's magazine with added watercolour and gouache. One of a series of works where Monk has recreated paintings by the arte povera artist Salvo who is known for his stylised tree paintings and painted them on to either digital outputs or, as here, magazine pages. Unique. Unsigned by the artist who sent it to Paul Robertson as a gift and presumably forgot to sign the sheet. VG+. ...
Glasgow: WAX366, 2021
21 x 15.5cm, 2pp. Artist's postcard printed letterpress black on white with an image of 12 drinking vessels in cross section - each is identified with a different month. One of Bellingham's annual end of year postcard editions. This example is unique as Bellingham has coloured in the bottom parts of each vessel with a coloured felt tipped pen. VG+.
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Glasgow: WAX366, 2021
21 x 15.5cm, 2pp. Artist's postcard printed letterpress black on white with an image of 12 drinking vessels in cross section - each is identified with a different month. One of Bellingham's annual end of year postcard editions. VG+.
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Loch Ranoch: Maris, 2020
30 x 21cm, 2pp archival inject print on Hahnemuhle German Etching paper inviting Paul Robertson to a “requiem supper” by Alexander and Susan Maris commemorating the 50th Anniversary of Celtic (Kinloch Rannoch) Scottish Symphony by Joseph Beuys and Henning Christiansen. The event has a menu of soup, fish and other Scottish gourmet items but sadly the event was “in spirit only” and a theoretical meet up (in part because the COVID-19 pandemic had meant lock-downs in parts of Scotland were in place and travel dsicouraged). Signed by both Alexander and Sue Maris on the reverse. VG+.
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30 x 21cm, 1pp press release for the event. VG+.
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Geneve: Blondeau & Cie, 2020 21 x 15cm, 4pp card with 21 x 15cm, 4pp black on red insert. A happy new year card issued by the gallery which reproduces Monk's Restaurant Drawing, (CW Drink) from 2020 on the front. This card is signed in pencil by Monk on the last page. VG+. ...