15 Dec

Posted at 21:11h in Artist's Books

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1990
7.5 x 7.5cm, 32pp and card covers and printed dust jacket. Artist's book with 9 illustrations by Gary Hincks and three line poems by Finlay.
The texts all relate to winter in the countryside and could be read as a single work but really each stands alone.

foot
following
foot

is shown next to a painting of footprints in the snow.
the staples are rusty but this is a scarce item - only 250 copies were printed as Christmas gifts, else VG+. This example is signed by Finlay on the first blank paper in ink.

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15 Dec

Posted at 17:07h in Object + Paper Multiples

London: Victoria Miro, 1990
21 x 20cm, 1pp black and red on cream card. A "cut-out' which would allow the owner to make a small cardboard manger (with the cut away pieces of card used to create "hay" by shredding. The instruction is "to be viewed through the window at Victoria Miro Gallery, 21 Cork Street, London W1, from 23 December to 6 January, '91". A Christmas card of sorts. With original crepe paper "wrap around". VG+.

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14 Dec

Posted at 15:20h in EPHEMERA

NYC: Marian Goodman Gallery 1995
17.5 x 12.5cm, 1pp typographic announcement card for a gallery show and reception for the artist. VG+.

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26 Oct

Posted at 23:08h in Invitation Cards

NYC: Christine Burgin Gallery, 1990
19 x 12.7cm, 1pp black on light brown announcement leaflet for a show listing eight proposals (public installations) from 1985 until 1989. Typographic design. VG+.

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23 Oct

Posted at 22:44h in Poems in folders

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1990
13.4 x 11cm, 4pp blue outer folder with a drawing of a bird. Internally a 13.4 x 11cm, 4pp sheet with a poem:

Morning and evening
dove

rill
in its throat.

This is one of a series of works which the Wild Hawthorn Press denoted as "Poems in folders". VG+.

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22 Oct

Posted at 22:40h in Poems in folders

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1990
13.4 x 11cm, 4pp blue outer folder with a drawing of a broken tree branch with leaves. Internally a 13.4 x 11cm, 4pp sheet with a poem:

Broken
willow branch

bent
to the pool

Willow branches usually take a structure where they bend to the ground - a broken willow branch is doubling down on the phenomena.
This is one of a series of works which the Wild Hawthorn Press denoted as "Poems in folders". VG+.

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30 Sep

Posted at 17:24h in Miscellany

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d. (c. 1990)
30 x 42, 1pp offset printed green on white site map of Little Sparta by Gary Hincks with a number of "Detached Sentences on Gardening" and a key to major works. The map predates the later extension to the garden and grounds such as the formal garden with the bee hives - we estimate this was created c. 1990. The map was given to visitors to Little Sparta. Folded for storage else VG+.

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24 Sep

Posted at 18:33h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1990
23.6 x 15.9cm, 4pp folding card. A uncredited (although looks like Gary Hincks' style) painting of a Liberty Tree but here with chains and locks around it (the American and French revolutionary symbols did not have any locks but were just trees left free to grow). Under the tree Finlay has added the names of the French and other critics who had disingenuously and erroneously accused him of being anti-semite. A simple visual poetic attack on his enemies. VG+.

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22 Sep

Posted at 22:35h in Poems in folders

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1990
13.6 x 8.9cm, 4pp light brown outer folder. Internally a 13.6 x 8.9cm, 4pp sheet with a poem:

Sackcloth

Stars
woven
in

The stars are compared with the rough hew of the flax cloth.

This is one of a series of works which the Wild Hawthorn Press denoted as "Poems in folders". VG+.

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