Edinburgh: National Galleries of Scotland, 1998
15 x 10.5cm, 2pp postcard with a b/w photograph of the gardens at Little Sparta taken by Robin Gillanders. The image here is of the large golden head of Apollo found in the gardens. VG+.
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Edinburgh: National Galleries of Scotland, 1998
15 x 10.5cm, 2pp postcard with a b/w photograph of the gardens at Little Sparta taken by Robin Gillanders. The image here is a water lily in the Garden pond. VG+.
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Edinburgh: Ingleby Gallery, n.d. (1999)
21 x 15cm, 2pp offset price list of available Finlay prints handed out a solo exhibition. Two punched holes for storage else VG.
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N.p.: s.p. (Boulton), n.d.
28 x 21cm, full colour giclee print mounted on board of the original watercolour that Finlay commissioned from Boulton for his artist's card and print Thonier. Possibly used in an exhibition. VG+.
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Luton: Stockwood Park, n.d. (1996)
21 x 30, 1pp offset printed green on white - a site map of Stockwood Park which shows Finlay's "Improvement Garden" as an important area to visit. Finlay created for the venue a classical garden in which the sculptures are an integral part of the landscape. Folded for storage and a few ink words written on back including the date else VG+.
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London: Tate Gallery, 1996
30 x 21cm, 1pp. Announcement leaflet for a concert in honour of Finlay's 70th birthday with a trilogy of new works by Gabriel Jacks. The three parts are Eurydice, Ring of Waves and In Prairial and Thermidor. A snippet of the score is reproduced. VG+ although a slight printing error affecting the text.
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London: Tate Gallery, 1996
5.5 x 8.5cm, 1pp event ticket and 10 x 21cm, 1pp compliments slip sent to Finlay's collaborator Janet Boulton as invitation to a concert in honour of Ian Hamilton Finlay and the premier of the "Wildflower Cycle". VG.
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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d. 12 x 9cm, 1pp ex libris (printed on card) with a drawing of a tank turret and the text above it: "SI FEDEM FREGERIS, FIDES TIBI PENITUS DISSONABUNT: which is given in an English translation as "IF YOU BREAK FAITH WITH ME, THE STRINGS OF YOUR LYRE WILL SOUND COMPLETELY OUT OF TUNE". Finlay as designated the tank (a Rh 202) as a Lyre in the drawing. One of a small number of Ex Libris designs Finlay made. VG+ Scarce. ...
Hamburg: Deichtorhallen Hamberg, 1995
30 x 21cm, 7pp (stapled) gallery hand out for a large Finlay retrospective with short texts in German and English. VG+.
JOINT:
30 x 21cm, 1pp floor plan and list of works. VG although formerly folded for storage.
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Edinburgh: Morning Star Press, 1995
Four different leaflets, sizes vary which include a number of different Finlay publications (the Press was run by Eck Finlay, Ian's son). VG.
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Docking: Coracle, n.d. (1992)
14.5 x 10.5cm, 8pp plus stiff burgundy printed wrappers. A visual poem written by Simon Cutts in praise (and a little critical en passant) of his friend Ian Hamilton Finlay. Inside the book (which looks like a passport) there are 3 pages - the first is I and has a black rectangle of card pasted to the page, the next page has the H and has empty spaces where similar rectangles might be pasted and the final page F has a black card shaped like a guillotine blade.
Not only referencing Finlay's interest in the French revolution - but also a slight hint at the poet's somewhat irascible nature (which moderated in his old age - by the time I met him he was a pussycat) in the darkness of the shapes and the sharpness of the final "blade". A rather nice little work in homage to the man. VG+.
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Edinburgh: Fruitmarket Gallery, 1991
5.7 x 6cm,1pp. Ticket for entrance to the title exhibition. Utterly ephemeral. VG.
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