28 Sep

Posted at 09:45h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1997
17.5 x 20.4cm, 4pp, card printed black on cream with the internal text with a landscape linocut by Jo Hincks.
Internally there is a text:

K S-R
Everything has been turned into wood and shaped with an axe till it roughly resembles itself. Wooden roads, wooden colours, wooden suns, wooden pine-needles. A wooden field with wooden stoocks like sails on a sea.

K. S-R. is Karl Schmidt-Rottluff the German expressionist who formed the Die Brücke group. Late in his life he made almost exclusively landscape paintings that reflected his angular style (which looks much like the unsubtle edges of woodcuts). VG+.

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18 Sep

Posted at 23:06h in David Bellingham

Glasgow: Wax366, 1997
10.5 x 15cm, 2pp artist postcard with a colour photograph of a British speed camera which has been painted in camouflage colours on the front. Jointly created with Jim Hamlyn. VG+.

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15 Sep

Posted at 15:28h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d. (1997) 15.3 x 10.6cm, 2pp artist's postcard with a drawing by Jo Hincks on the front of a boat in black but the decking is printed in yellow to hint at a lemon (a common Finlay simile for a boat). The title "Lemon on a blue cloth" makes this clear - the fruit on the blue table cloth is compared with a boat on the sea. VG+....

15 Sep

Posted at 15:20h in Artist's Postcards

Litte Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d. (1997) 8.5 x 21.5cm, 4pp folded card with the silhouette in light brown of a classical rowing boat with the quotation "THE PLOWERS PLOWED UPON MY BACK. THEY MADE LONG THEIR FURROWS." which is from Psalms 129 v.3 and is a poetic vision of how oars cut into the water and the similarity with ploughing the earth. VG+. ...

14 Sep

Posted at 17:54h in Invitation Cards

Dortmund: Museum am Ostwall, 1997
10 x 21cm, 18pp (single sheet accordion folded) exhibition announcement/handout/catalogue with text on individual works and four full colour images of prints and works and one b/w photographic portrait of Finlay and an image of Little Sparta. VG+.

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12 Sep

Posted at 20:28h in Proposals

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1997
11 x 22cm, 20pp plus two fold outs and leaf patterned boards with tipped on label. A proposal for the grounds of London's Serpentine Gallery which consisted of semi-circle of 8 benches with plaques and a single central plaque in the Meadow Area. The texts are all translations from Vigil talking of a distant view - but each translation takes on different nuances of the original. Translations are by Finlay himself with Jessie Sheeler, Samuel Palmer, C Day Lewis, W F Jackson Knight, Harry Gilonis, John Caryll, and Charles Calverley. Virgil's own Latin quotation is also present on the final bench.
A further plaque again quotes Virgil: "Home, goats, home, replete, the evening star is coming." - a quotation that in which one recognises aspects of Finlay's most famous work - "Evening will come, they sew the blue sail."
A massive carved circular paving stone is also proposed to be placed at the entrance to the gallery listing the latin names of trees that are found near to the gallery. Lettering was drawn by Peter Coates and Andrew Whittle. Maps and cover paper by Gary Hincks.

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06 Sep

Posted at 09:38h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1997
8.4 x 9cm, single folded card printed black on brown with the internal text : "FOLDING THE LAST SAIL". The card colour is reminiscent of certain sails that take on their colour from the oils that are used to keep them flexible. The act of folding a sail to store it away or sometimes to wrap a dead body in it is reflected in the folding of the card. This work is after an earlier work by Thomas A. Clark and Laurie Clark. VG+.

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01 Sep

Posted at 09:33h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1997
14.8 x 10cm, single folded sheet to create a 4pp card with a drawing by Gary Hincks of a model boat, Inside Finlay describes a model sailboat on chair, propped amongst cushions with a tape-machine playing the sound of wind, rain and ocean waves. The "event" is a conceptual sailing. VG+.

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27 Aug

Posted at 16:52h in Proposals

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1997 18.4 x 18cm folded printed card folder content of a folded sheet which opens to 36 x 17.5cm, the inner folding is a drawing after a sculpture which is explained thus: A circular post cast in bronze, with plain and rusticated bands alternating, the latter following three of the four types of rustication illustrated in Sebastiano Serlio's Five Books of Architecture: At the top of the post, in raised Roman letters, are the words AGE QUOD AGIS - What you are doing, do thoroughly. The post is designed for a private garden in Provence. VG+. ...

22 Aug

Posted at 09:23h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1997
10.5 x 9.5cm, 4pp card with a detail of a painting by Steer and internally a poem by Finlay:

W. Steer at Walberswick

Tucking into
knickers
imperishable
petticoat
froth

The reference painting here is Philip Wilson Steer's "The Beach at Walberswick". The British impressionist often concentrated on the people on the beach rather than the landscape per se as with other painters in that movement. Finlay notes the dresses of the women on the beach and compares their petticoat frills to the foam found at the sea edge. VG+.

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20 Aug

Posted at 09:19h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1997
10.5 x 19.1cm, 2pp card with a reproduced painting by Janet Boulton of a long thorn branch. The title of the work is the name of a type of French fishing boat that strung long trails of hooks after them as a means of increasing the take of the trip, VG+.

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