28 Oct RECORDING OF IAN HAMILTON FINLAY 70TH BIRTHDAY BBC SCOTLAND. 2000.
Standard Sony FX cassette audio tape in standard box and handwritten label. A recording of the BBC Scotland programme made for Finlay's 70th birthday in 2000. Unplayed.
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27 Oct SOUVENIRS. 100 POSTCARDS BY IAN HAMILTON FINLAY. 2000.
Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 2000
18.5 x 18.7cm, unpaginated (132pp) plus boards. A catalogue raisonne of Finlay's postcards which in part is one of the few sources to date cards after 1994. One hundred reproductions of such cards. Issued at the time of a travelling exhibition initially at the Haus Hartmann, Grevenbroich 2000. VgG....
19 Oct POETS POEMS NO. 3. 2000. SIMON CUTTS….
Belper: Aggie Weston's Editions, 2000
21 x 15cms, 16pp, plus cards covers. An anthology of poetry chosen by Simon Cutts which includes Finlay's CASTLES, a traditional form poem. VG+.
JOINT:
30 x 21cm, 1pp signed typed letter from Stuart Mills to Paul Robertson offering copies of Star?steer and Sea Poppy 1 as the publisher/poet is in need of a new computer. Folded else VG+
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21 Sep PASSPORT. 2000.
Edinburgh: Morning Star, 200
13.5 x 10cm, 32pp plus COVERS. Artist's book in the form of a faux passport contributions by Finlay, Alex Finlay, Simon Patterson, Lawrence Weiner, Donald Evans, David Faithfull as well as others. Each page is in the form of actual rubber stamp impressions in black, red and blue from stamps designed by the artists. One of 750 copies produced but this is surprisingly hard to find. VG+
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19 Jul POEZJA KONKRETNA CONCRETE POETRY. 2000.
Bielsko-Biala: Galeria Bielsko, 2000
19.5 x 21cm, 132ppl plus blue boards. Exhibition catalogue for a show of artist's postcards by Finlay from the collection of Stanislaw Drozdz. Essay by Piotr Rypson. Many card reproduced in colours. There is a glossery at the back translating many of the English words on the cards into Polish. VG+.
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18 May PORTRAIT OF JANET BOULTON WITH FINLAY TOY BOAT. c. 2000.
30 x 21cm, full colour high quality inkjet reproduction of a photograph of Finlay collaborator Janet Boulton alongside three of her paintings of Finlay toy and one large Ian Hamilton Finlay model boat. Taken at an unknown exhibition. From Boulton's personal archive. ...
16 May THE OTHER WAY TO EDINBURGH. 2000.
Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 2000
8 x 17.9cm, 4pp artist's card with a landscape drawing by Gary Hincks. Internally there is a poem by Finlay:
THE OTHER WAY TO EDINBURGH
(Farmsteads, streams,
serious woods),
the rainstorm's portcullis
closes the view.
One of a number of such cards with detailed illustrations of poems, in the same dramatic style, by Hincks all published in the same year. Finlay's reference to the rainstorm's portcullis is the raging rain coming down in sheets that look like vertical lines on the horizon. 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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03 May COLOUR PHOTOGRAPH OF A SCULPTURAL WORK. SIGNED BY FINLAY.
N.p.: n.p., n.d.
15 x 10cm, 1pp. Full colour photograph of a stone sculptural work presented on the floor. This image is signed in black in k on the side by Finlay in full. VG+.
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19 Apr ENHRENTEMPLE.
17 x 17 x 10cm, block of four etched stones on a marble base. An unique work with stylised Greek ionic columns holding a "frieze" with the words around the stones:
how blue!
how far!
how sad!
how small!
how white!
The texts are exclamations about a horizon where the sky meets the ground and a reminder how great forces are at work in the natural world hence this is a Romantic work.
This is an unique small work and not a maquette for a larger work.
There are small scratches and chips in the blocks but overall it is still in VG condition. We are not aware of the date of this work - we believe in the early 2000s....
19 Apr BLUE LEMON. HOT LEMON.
N.p. (Basel?): s.p. (Finlay), n.d.
2.5 x 3.5 x 0.75cm, two part printed matchbox content of blue tipped safety matches. The outside of the box has two separate sides – one being a promotional address and logo for a Swiss nightclub and the other (rather bizarrely) being an Ian Hamilton Finlay work with the name of a boat (Blue Lemon) with details of its port (Moray Firth) and boat number. We can find no reference to this in the Finlay literature and we do not know the limitation but it came from the collection of Finlay’s friend and collaborator Janet Boulton. In VG+ estate. Scarce.
Not in the Murray catalogue raisonne.
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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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