https://unoriginalsins.co.uk AVANT-GARDES Thu, 31 Jul 2025 17:05:30 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/cropped-nTKdHdZI-1-1-32x32.png https://unoriginalsins.co.uk 32 32 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/images-from-the-arcadian-dream-garden-2025-exhibition-in-celebration-of-100-years-since-finlays-birth/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=images-from-the-arcadian-dream-garden-2025-exhibition-in-celebration-of-100-years-since-finlays-birth https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/images-from-the-arcadian-dream-garden-2025-exhibition-in-celebration-of-100-years-since-finlays-birth/#respond Thu, 31 Jul 2025 14:16:32 +0000 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/?p=61282 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/images-from-the-arcadian-dream-garden-2025-exhibition-in-celebration-of-100-years-since-finlays-birth/feed/ 0 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/little-sparta-1998/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=little-sparta-1998 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/little-sparta-1998/#respond Sun, 23 Aug 1998 15:47:04 +0000 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/?p=19110 38 x 29cm, 1pp black on gloss paper. Large b/w inkjet (as issued) exhibition poster for a show of images from Little Sparta taken by Janet Boulton and David Paterson. One image of a broken column in situ in Finlay's garden reproduced on the front. Slightly ripped along edges. Not many produced.

]]> 38 x 29cm, 1pp black on gloss paper. Large b/w inkjet (as issued) exhibition poster for a show of images from Little Sparta taken by Janet Boulton and David Paterson. One image of a broken column in situ in Finlay's garden reproduced on the front. Slightly ripped along edges. Not many produced.

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]]> https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/ian-hamilton-finlay-sail-wholemeal-prints-1963-1997-1997/feed/ 0 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/ian-hamilton-finlay-works-pure-and-political-1995-signed-by-finlay/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ian-hamilton-finlay-works-pure-and-political-1995-signed-by-finlay https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/ian-hamilton-finlay-works-pure-and-political-1995-signed-by-finlay/#respond Tue, 26 Sep 1995 15:35:32 +0000 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/?p=19432 89 x 60cm, b/w offset lithographic exhibition poster with a reproduced photograph of a sculptural work (See Poussin/Hear Lorraine) in situ at Little Sparta. This exhibition poster is unusually signed in pencil by Finlay under the image . VG.

]]> 89 x 60cm, b/w offset lithographic exhibition poster with a reproduced photograph of a sculptural work (See Poussin/Hear Lorraine) in situ at Little Sparta. This exhibition poster is unusually signed in pencil by Finlay under the image . VG.

]]> https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/ian-hamilton-finlay-works-pure-and-political-1995-signed-by-finlay/feed/ 0 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/the-poor-fisherman-1991-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-poor-fisherman-1991-2 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/the-poor-fisherman-1991-2/#respond Fri, 26 Jul 1991 15:23:47 +0000 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/?p=19427 69 x 41cm, full colour offset lithographic exhibition poster with a recreation of the painting "The Poor Fisherman" by Puvis De Chavannes - however the mast of the boat has had a revolutionary cockade been added to it. - hence adding a political edge to the image more than the original solely religious intent. The exhibition at the Talbot Rice Gallery that examined the work in some detail and responses to the work.

]]> 69 x 41cm, full colour offset lithographic exhibition poster with a recreation of the painting "The Poor Fisherman" by Puvis De Chavannes - however the mast of the boat has had a revolutionary cockade been added to it. - hence adding a political edge to the image more than the original solely religious intent. The exhibition at the Talbot Rice Gallery that examined the work in some detail and responses to the work.

]]> https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/the-poor-fisherman-1991-2/feed/ 0 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/ian-hamilton-finlay-ideologische-ausserungen-1991-signed-by-finlay/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ian-hamilton-finlay-ideologische-ausserungen-1991-signed-by-finlay https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/ian-hamilton-finlay-ideologische-ausserungen-1991-signed-by-finlay/#respond Sun, 21 Apr 1991 15:31:10 +0000 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/?p=19430 89 x 60cm, B/W offset lithographic exhibition poster with a reproduction of TWO LANDSCAPES OF THE SUBLIME (See separate listing under prints) This exhibition poster is unusually signed in pencil by Finlay under the image (originally by Gary Hincks). VG.

]]> 89 x 60cm, B/W offset lithographic exhibition poster with a reproduction of TWO LANDSCAPES OF THE SUBLIME (See separate listing under prints) This exhibition poster is unusually signed in pencil by Finlay under the image (originally by Gary Hincks). VG.

]]> https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/ian-hamilton-finlay-ideologische-ausserungen-1991-signed-by-finlay/feed/ 0 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/uncover-discover-new-art-for-glasgow-1990/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=uncover-discover-new-art-for-glasgow-1990 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/uncover-discover-new-art-for-glasgow-1990/#respond Tue, 26 Jun 1990 20:21:19 +0000 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/?p=19450
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]]> https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/uncover-discover-new-art-for-glasgow-1990/feed/ 0 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/1789-ian-hamilton-finlay-1794-1989/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=1789-ian-hamilton-finlay-1794-1989 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/1789-ian-hamilton-finlay-1794-1989/#respond Fri, 22 Dec 1989 16:35:49 +0000 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/?p=21424 84 x 60cm, duotone offset lithograph exhibition poster with a full sheet image of Finlay's Aphrodite of the Terror sculpture and floating text. An exhibition looking at Finlay's work relating to the French revolution. Folded as issued else VG.]]> 84 x 60cm, duotone offset lithograph exhibition poster with a full sheet image of Finlay's Aphrodite of the Terror sculpture and floating text. An exhibition looking at Finlay's work relating to the French revolution. Folded as issued else VG.]]> https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/1789-ian-hamilton-finlay-1794-1989/feed/ 0 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/ian-hamilton-finlay-1977-london/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ian-hamilton-finlay-1977-london https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/ian-hamilton-finlay-1977-london/#respond Tue, 26 Dec 1978 16:22:00 +0000 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/?p=19425 58 x 41cm, three colour offset lithographic exhibition poster with a reproduction of a work "Of famous arcady ye are" - a tank hiding in greenery: a favourite Finlay trope, here with a quotation from John Milton. This was an exhibition that was later exhibited in Wales and used the same poster design. Formerly folded else VG.

]]> 58 x 41cm, three colour offset lithographic exhibition poster with a reproduction of a work "Of famous arcady ye are" - a tank hiding in greenery: a favourite Finlay trope, here with a quotation from John Milton. This was an exhibition that was later exhibited in Wales and used the same poster design. Formerly folded else VG.

]]> https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/ian-hamilton-finlay-1977-london/feed/ 0 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/ian-hamilton-finlay-1978-cardiff/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ian-hamilton-finlay-1978-cardiff https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/ian-hamilton-finlay-1978-cardiff/#respond Tue, 26 Sep 1978 15:16:07 +0000 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/?p=19423 58 x 41cm, three colour offset lithographic exhibition poster with a reproduction of a work "Of famous arcady ye are" - a tank hiding in greenery: a favourite Finlay trope, here with a quotation from John Milton. This was an exhibition that had previously been in London the year before. Formerly folded else VG.

]]> 58 x 41cm, three colour offset lithographic exhibition poster with a reproduction of a work "Of famous arcady ye are" - a tank hiding in greenery: a favourite Finlay trope, here with a quotation from John Milton. This was an exhibition that had previously been in London the year before. Formerly folded else VG.

]]> https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/ian-hamilton-finlay-1978-cardiff/feed/ 0 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/ain-hamilton-finlay-collaborations-1977-part-of-cambridge-poetry-festival/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ain-hamilton-finlay-collaborations-1977-part-of-cambridge-poetry-festival https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/ain-hamilton-finlay-collaborations-1977-part-of-cambridge-poetry-festival/#respond Sun, 24 Apr 1977 14:02:28 +0000 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/?p=19244 60 x 42cm, olive green and black on white offset lithograph. The line drawing by Ron Costley is a copy of the outline of the original Bernini sculpture of the gods.
There is a text beneath the image: ‘APOLLO AND DAPHNE/ after Bernini/BIBLIOGRAPHY - Ovid, “Metamorphoses”; Rudolf Wittkower, “The Sculptures of Gian Lorenzo Bernini”; Historical Research Unit, Vol. 6, “Uniforms of the SS”’.
The classical story of the pair is one of desire - Apollo being consumed by lust for Daphne (thanks to Eros messing with his motivation) and Daphne desiring to remain chaste (Again this is down to Eros). When Apollo did manage to catch Daphne (presumably with rape his intent) Daphne's father Peneus turned her into an laurel tree - hence saving her virginity.
The Tate Gallery website claims Finlay explained that "the gods and nature ‘were behaving not unlike the Waffen SS’ (who were the first to use a smock with a leaf camouflage pattern, hence its identification with them).
This poster, in which Daphne is wearing a camouflage smock which replaces ‘nature’, was the poster for the title exhibition at the Cambridge Poetry Festival in 1977. It is the same image as in the print APOLLO AND DAPHNE. AFTER BERNINI. 1975 but with exhibition details added at the bottom. Slight crease top right else VG.

]]> 60 x 42cm, olive green and black on white offset lithograph. The line drawing by Ron Costley is a copy of the outline of the original Bernini sculpture of the gods.
There is a text beneath the image: ‘APOLLO AND DAPHNE/ after Bernini/BIBLIOGRAPHY - Ovid, “Metamorphoses”; Rudolf Wittkower, “The Sculptures of Gian Lorenzo Bernini”; Historical Research Unit, Vol. 6, “Uniforms of the SS”’.
The classical story of the pair is one of desire - Apollo being consumed by lust for Daphne (thanks to Eros messing with his motivation) and Daphne desiring to remain chaste (Again this is down to Eros). When Apollo did manage to catch Daphne (presumably with rape his intent) Daphne's father Peneus turned her into an laurel tree - hence saving her virginity.
The Tate Gallery website claims Finlay explained that "the gods and nature ‘were behaving not unlike the Waffen SS’ (who were the first to use a smock with a leaf camouflage pattern, hence its identification with them).
This poster, in which Daphne is wearing a camouflage smock which replaces ‘nature’, was the poster for the title exhibition at the Cambridge Poetry Festival in 1977. It is the same image as in the print APOLLO AND DAPHNE. AFTER BERNINI. 1975 but with exhibition details added at the bottom. Slight crease top right else VG.

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