27 x 11cm, 1pp. Original ink on white paper drawing which consists of the word SHIT placed into a 4 x 4 matrix and some of the letters replaced by Xs. A unique concrete poem. Signed and dated in pencil on the back by Bellingham. VG+
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Glasgow: Wax366, 2006
8 x19cm, 2pp artist's postcard with the alphabet printed white on green but with the letters of Ian Hamilton Finlay removed from the list - issued soon after Finlay's death. VG+.
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Glasgow: Wax366, 27th March 2006
15 x 10.5cm, 2pp artist postcard in honour of Ian Hamilton Finlay (who was often known as IHF - hence a man of letters - and who had produced a similar work for RLS: Robert Louis Stephenson). Very limited edition. VG+. ...
London: V&A Museum, 2006
9. 2 x 9.2cm, 2pp ornate die cut announcement on thick card for an exhibition displaying works from a wide range of concrete and visual poets including David Bellingham, Thomas and Laurie Clark, Simon Cutts, Ian Hamilton Finlay., Robert Lax, Stuart Mills and others, The card is a recreation of the cover of the 1973 book of the same title designed by Simon Cutts - which is inspired by Malevich and has red, blue plus deliberate crease lines and tied cotton. One tiny mark bottom right else VG.
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Glasgow: WAX336, 2006
10.5 x 15cm, 2pp original mail art work with the text: "A GOLDEN STAMP FOR JAMES LEE BYARS 1932 - 1997." alongside the 1st class "golden" stamp. Byars often created works in monochrome colours such as gold. A mailed copy sent to Paul Robertson - hand addressed by Bellingham on the reverse in ink. VG+ although some unavoidable marks from the mailing process are apparent.
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Metal box, hand drawn sheets of paper with 1,916,594 individually drawn crosses. Some pages framed in glass and wood.
Turnout is a 1:1 representation of the voting public of Scotland. It is a monument to those who voted in the first national election following the establishment of the Scottish Parliament in 1999. The work takes the Scottish Parliamentary election of the 1st May 2003 as a model. 1,916,594 votes were cast in this election, amounting to 49.42% of the electorate.
Turnout consists of 1 916 594 individually drawn crosses, one cross for every person who voted. Groups of 1000 crosses were drawn on 1917 separate sheets of paper, the final sheet consisting of 594 crosses. The sheets of paper are housed in archival boxes which in turn are housed in an outer ‘ballot box'. The first 20 000 and last 20 000 crosses are framed. Outer box dimensions: 49cm x 37cmx 66cm
Where the traditional monument takes a partial list of proper names and sets them in stone, in Turnout voters are memorialised not in name but in action. Turnout was made at the Heart Gallery in Edinburgh between February and April 2006. Images on request.
NB - Please note Turnout is available for exhibition - do enquire.
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Edinburgh: Show & Tell Editions, 2006
42 x 29.7cm, red and black on white offset lithograph - exhibition poster for Bellingham's Turnout project which took place in Heart Gallery over several weeks where the artist recreated the first Scottish direct elections in 300 years by rewriting by hand the 1,916,594 crosses that comprised the voting in those elections. Design by Bellingham - this is one of the 100 unsigned posters designed by Belling to promote the exhibition. Fine.
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Glasgow: Wax366, 2006
15 x 21cm, 2pp artist postcard with a black and white visual poem (with aspects of ying and yang) representing the passing of the year and beginning of the new sent as a gift to friends and colleagues. This example is signed on the back in red ink. VG+. ...
Glasgow: Wax 366, 2005 17 x 12cm, 2pp. artist's postcard with 364 "days" and one "year" in the artist's facsimile hand. A new years card from Bellingham which has "best wishes, David" in pencil on the back. With original handwritten mailing envelope. VG+. ...
Copenhagen: Langtborsistan, 2005
10.4 x 7.8cm, 8pp plus folded round card covers. Leporello Artist's book reproducing eight of Bellingham's paintings of the "gaps between" - the sky seen through the foliage in a tree plus one image of a painting on the bark of a silver birch. Rather lovely. VG+.
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Glasgow: WAX366, 2005
10 x 14.8cm, 2pp colour artist's postcard with a photograph of a bank cheque made out to the artist's son Kasper Halfdan Bjorge Bellingham for an emergency passport. His son had just been born. VG+.
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Glasgow: Wax366, 2005
10.5 x 15cm, 2pp artist postcard with a colour image of a flower patch with cut out letter Bs attached to some of the stalks. An awful pun. VG+
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