17 Nov

Posted at 10:13h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1996
10.2 x 5.2cm, 4pp folding card printed green and blue on white with the text reversed. The two inner folds read:

Faint,
Lingering
Under
The
Elms

and

Faint,
Lingering
Under
The
Eaves

Both poems have the word FLUTE made up of their first letters and this indicates that both poems should be associated with sound. The former with birds in the trees (the birds' home), the second with sounds in a home. Finlay finds both sounds "enchanting" and magical one assumes. A pretty card. VG+.

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03 Nov

Posted at 10:06h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1996
8.2 x 8.2cm, 8pp folding concertina card printed black on light brown. The three folds read:

LEAF & BOAT

BOAT & BARK

BARK & LEAF

Each recombination infers a different poetic image - the first the similarity between a floating leaf and a boat, the second the wood that makes up both boat and bark (bark peeled away will form a hollow structure) and finally the tree itself. VG+.

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01 Nov

Posted at 09:55h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1996
14.7 x 11.5cm, 2pp. A colour image by Cornelia Wieg of carved names on a tree that has been rotated by 90 degrees to make the work seem abstract and somewhat like a photograph of a flower. This is one of three times this image is used in a Finlay publication - once as an editioned print, once as a card (here) and also on an announcement card for the print. There is a longer discussion of this work on the print entry in this cataloguing. VG+.

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27 Oct

Posted at 09:43h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta/Nottingham: Wild Hawthorn Press/Tarasque Press, 1996
15.5 x 11.3cm, 2pp. A constellation of short translated haiku which were previously allocated to their Japanese authors have the names of the original writers crossed out and replaced by names from the English National football time such as:

Breakwater posts
the sea so calm
on the other side

Paul Gascoigne


The original poems were translated by Stuart Mills and Finlay appended the footballers. Finlay suggesting that the poems give up some essence of the sportsman.
This card has a short dedication in ink on the back from Mills to Robertson "for Paul from Stuart". VG+.

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21 Oct

Posted at 09:39h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1996
15.2 x 13.5cm, 42pp, card with a photograph by Robin Gillanders where Finlay has associated the fast flowing stream with that of an Italian racing car. This image was also used in the "Dear Stiglitz" portfolio. VG+.

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19 Oct

Posted at 10:32h in Invitation Cards

NYC: Nolan / Eckman Gallery, n.d. (1996)
15 x 21cm, 2pp. Announcement card for the title exhibition of prints by Finlay which also mentions the "artist's book" of the same title. VG+. One text work by Finlay on the front listing boat names as a visual poem.

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16 Oct

Posted at 09:33h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1996
8.8 x 12.6cm, 1pp, artist's postcard printed black on brown. There is a "found free style haiku" from a book on model boats:

drift (mist) net

The card published in Autumn reflects the colours of the fall and the weather. VG+.

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13 Oct

Posted at 09:26h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1996
9.5 x 15.2cm, 4pp, folding card with a drawing of a row of beached boats in Hastings by Gary Hincks printed black on brown. There are three one line poems inside the card:

The WEST COUNTRY STONE BARGE bares mortal timbers

the HASTINGS LUGGER steers backwards slowly

The LEIGH BAWLEY sails on silent sails.

Finlay as ever likes a pun or an association with a sound - the Bawley (Bawl) is silent not loud, the Lugger goes backwards because traditionally it was launched stern first and the Stone Barge carries wood not stone. VG+.

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06 Oct

Posted at 22:11h in Exhibition Catalogues

NYC: Nolan / Eckman Gallery, 1996
16.5 x 18.5cm, 28pp. Original printed boards. Artist's book and exhibition catalogue with 7 tipped on colour lithographs - one of a boat and the other 6 of patterned images that seem abstract but are different images of "reef knots" - drawn by Gary Hincks - the ropes that drop from the sails allowing them to be tied up and the area of the sail reduced if required. These images were also released as a print portfolio. The names of the boats that the different sails are taken from are printed opposite every image - the different styles make the prints attractive and each is printed in a different dominant colour. Only 350 such books were printed.

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18 Sep

Posted at 16:37h in Page Works & Contributions

Edinburgh: City of Edinburgh, 1962
21 x 15cm, 24pp plus card covers. This is a pretend stamp collection album released at the time fo the title exhibition in the City Arts Centre Edinburgh. Edited by Eck Finlay there are contributions by Ian Hamilton ,Robin Gillanders, David Bellingham, Finlay and Edwin Morgan and others. Inserted inside the book is a paper and plastic envelope complete with twelve small sheets of cinderella stamps. This is complete and unused - one of 500 copies printed but is strangely very hard to find. VG+.

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12 Sep

Posted at 20:13h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1996
6.5 x 5.4cm, 4pp. A drawing of dwarf beans by Gary Hincks has a two line poem inside:

DWARF BEANS
BR> The stalks, wrists, appear too delicate
for the quarter-moons and leaves.

Finlay compares the shape of the long thin beans to the waxing or waning moon. VG+.

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