04 May THE BLUE SAIL. 2002.
Glasgow: Wax366, n.d. (2002)
14.7 x 10.5cm, 4pp (single folded sheet) typographic design. Announcement card for both a book of poems by Finlay and a small exhibition at the Cairn Gallery in Nailsworth. VG+.
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21 Mar MARITIME WORKS. 2002.
St Ives: Tate Gallery, n.d. (2002)
21 x 15cm, 4pp announcement and invite card to the opening with "The Divided Meadows of Aphrodite" on the front and internally museum details. VG+....
20 Mar PRINTS AND POSTCARDS. 2002.
Edinburgh: Ingleby Gallery, 2002
15 x 10.5cm, 4pp announcement card for a posthumous exhibition of prints. One work - STAR STEER - on the front. VG+.
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12 Jun INTERMISSIONS. 2001.
Basel: STAMPA, 2001
21 x 10.5cm, 2pp. Announcement card for a Finlay solo show which has a photograph of a work CHORE, n. a small humdrum task: a prosaic task; a refuge which is carved on the handle of a broom.
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09 Jun IAN HAMILTON FINLAY PATHS. 2001.
Langenbruck: Sculpture at Schoenthal Monestery, 2001
14.4 x 21cm, 4pp announcement card with a b/w image of Little Sparta on the front taken by Jennifer Gough-Cooper. A photographic exhibition showing paths from Finlay's gardens and other grounds. Inside gallery details. VG+.
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05 May FLOWER SHOW. 2000. SEED PACKAGE AS ANNOUNCEMENT.
London: Pump House Gallery, 2000
15.5 x 10.3cm, printed brown envelope content of Sweet Pea Early Multiflora Gigantea mixed seeds. This seed packet was the announcement object for a group show which included Thomas A. CLark, Mat Collishaw, Anya Gallaccio, Michael Landy and FInlay amongst others. Unopened and unusual.
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08 Apr WITHOUT DAY: PROPOSALS AND PROJECTS. 2000.
Edinburgh: City Arts Centre, 2000.
15 x 21cm, 2pp announcement card for a group exhibition relating to the formation of the New Scottish Parliament. The front of the card shows a Finlay work from 1999 with the new parliamentary buildings relabelled with boat's numbers.
The architect Enri Miralles used upturned fishing boats as an inspiration for his ridiculously stupid, not-fit-for purpose building (if you have visited inside you will note the rooms for the Members of Parliament are too cramped and their assistants have to sit outside the rooms in a sort of open plan area that is again far too small but Miralles died and they went ahead with it when redeveloping the Old High School on Parliament Hill would have made so much more sense - First mInister Donald Dewar pushed this through and it was one of his bad decisions along with others that affected this writer in his past employment in politics but we digress out of past ire).
The text on the back of the card is also somewhat damning of the building with its faint praise and Finlay's question that if the buildings are boats, is the Parliament at sea level? VG+.
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18 Jan IAN HAMILTON FINLAY. 2000.
Basel: STAMPA, 2000
10.5 x 15cm, 2pp announcement card with a Finlay tow boat on water "Im dunkeln Laub die Gold-Orangen glubn" on the front, verso gallery details,. A mailed and addressed example but still VG+.
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06 Oct PASTORALES. 1991.
Lubeck: Overbeck-Gesellschaft, 1991
21 x 10cm, 2pp announcement card with a reproduction of VENTOSE from 19991 on the front. Verso gallery details. VG+.
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01 Oct BLUE FLOWER. 1999. ANNOUNCEMENT CARD.
Eindhoven: October Foundation, n.d. (1999)
15 x 10.5cm, 2PP. Announcement card for the limited lithographic print by Ian Hamilton Finlay and Cornelia Wieg. Image of the work in colour on front. VG+
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28 Feb IAN HAMILTON FINLAY. VARIATIONS ON SEVERAL THEMES. 1999
Barcelona: Joan Miro Foundation, n.d. (1999)
10.5 x 21cm, 1pp mostly typographic announcement/invite card for the opening of the exhibition. This copy addressed to Finlay's collaborator Janet Boulton. . VG+. A scarce card.
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25 Feb IAN HAMILTON FINLAY. VARIACIONS SOBRE DIVERSOS TEMES. 1999.
Barcelona: Fundacio Joan Miro, 2000
10.5 x 21cm, 4pp announcement card with a Finlay relief sculpture on the front, inside gallery details. VG+.
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