15 x 20.5cm, acrylic paint on white board. An original painting by Bellingham in three colours of blue - the shapes being the sky seen through the gaps in the foliage of trees. On the back the work is addressed to Paul Robertson and has a stamp but it was never posted but hand delivered. VG+. Unique. ...

Bremen: Künstlerhaus Bremen, 2005
20.3 x 20.3 x 14cm, two part white box content of an artist's book and an unique glazed coffee mug with a text on the outside - deliberately printed upside down.
The book - OCEAN WAVE - is 21 x 15cm, 244pp plus card covers but the cover has been torn off by the artist and replaced inside the book. The book is a physical reminder of Bas Jan Ader's suicidal trip in trying to sail back to Europe single handedly from America as well as films made by Monk where he tried to make beer commercials. The book is entirely designed by the artist and has overlapping images from the films as well as blank pages.
The mug has a quotation from a short story about a true life event by Lawrence Elliot called "The Boy Who Plunged Over Niagara": "Deanne, awed by the tumultuous river, which she had seen only once, was reluctant. But with little Roger jumping with glee, and her mother urging her to go along --- "You'll have a chance for a swim at Lynch's later --- Deanne changed into a bathing suit, and the three set out." and is unique to this mug. Other mugs had different quotations from the story on them. It is signed by Monk and dated 2005 on the bottom.
The book and the quotation both deal in part with drowning (although the boy and his sister survived the capsize the adult with them did not. And the quotation being upside down means that to read it the mug has to be capsized in some sense also. One presumes Ader drowned after a capsize in the Atlantic as well.
This is unique in the series (although the book was released as a separate edition at the exhibition in Bremen. The top of the box is signed and numbered by Monk also. Sadly because of contamination from another Monk work (A box of cheese) with which it was stored temporarily the box has heavy foxing on all sides. But this does not affect the mug or the book.

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Bignam: Domaine de Kerguéhennec, 2005
24 x 18.4cm, 206pp plys endpapers and boards. Exhibition catalogue for the solo exhibition "Family of Man" which has essays and texts by Claude Closky, David Shrigley, Pierre Bismuth, Ceal Floer, Edward Rusha and Jon Baldessari. Illustrated in colour throughout with works by Monk. This example is signed on the first blank endpaper by Monk in pencil. VG+.

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Edinburgh: Show & Tell Editions, 2005
14.5 x 21cm, 2pp. artist’s postcard as edition. The Scottish Parliament is show overlaid with red “x”s - the postcard was issued in a small number of copies during the period when Bellingham took a break from making his major work TURNOUT at the Heart Gallery, Edinburgh where he re-wrote the entire number of Xs cast in the Scottish 2003 Scottish parliamentary election by hand. "Abstention" is a counterpart to the "Turnout” project and represents the 50.7% of people who did not vote during the 2003 election.

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Edinburgh: Show & Tell Editions, 2005
15 x 10.2cm, 32pp plus printed card covers. Artist's book from Scottish artist, David Bellingham that solely consists of 4,668 reproductions of hand drawn crosses and an illustration of a ballot box.
There are strictly 500 hand-numbered copies of this book - aside from one unique book (no. 1) within the edition which corrects the entire number of crosses to exactly represent the total number of votes cast in Scotland during the May 5th 2005 General Election (2,333,882).
Conceptual work and/or concrete poem, this is a peon to democracy and a metaphor of the substantial effort required in maintaining openness in society.  If ever there was time to remind ourselves of the importance of our pluralist societies, it is now.
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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d. (c. 2005)
21 x 15cm, 1pp plus blue card covers which are metal spiral bound.
The text on the single page (printed on white card) reads:

SPIRAL BINDING
(PAGE TO COVER)

SPIRAL BINDING
(MAST TO SAIL)

Finlay is comparing the physical form of the book to the way a sail is bound to a mast.
This was not Finlay's first comparison of spiral binding to a sailboat - the work SPIRAL BINDING from 1972 consisted of shaped cards bound together to resemble a ship's sail printed with the boat's number. To our mind this is a cruder version of that work .
A note on date - we cannot find any reference to allow us to date this item accurately - we believe it to be one of Finlay's last artist's books and have dated it as 2005 but may be wrong.

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Miami: The Moore Space, 2005
12.2 x 18cm, 2pp announcement card for a project by Monk where some vintage slides of Florida originally owned by Monk's father included the image of a red bathing suited woman jumping into the sea - Monk with students tried to recreate this scene in real life and record it in film and slide projection. VG+.

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