04 Aug

Posted at 16:15h in Proposals

Little SpartaL: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1991 18.2 x 11cm, 4pp printed outer folder content of 4pp sheeet with the text:

The present order.

Order the present.

Present the order.

This is a "postscript" to one of Finlay's best known works "The Present Order" (with Nicholas Stone) which takes the original's text and reworks it. The proposal is also to be cut on an unworked block of stone selected at the quarry face.
VG+.
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26 Jul

Posted at 16:23h in Exhibition & Other Posters

Edinburgh: Talbot Rice Gallery, n.d. (1991)
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.

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26 Jul

Posted at 10:14h in Exhibition Catalogues

Edinburgh: Talbot Rice Gallery, 1991
21 x 19cm, 38pp plus wrappers. Illustrated exhibition catalogue for a show proposed by Finlay, themed around the famous painting by Puvis of the Poor Fisherman. Finlay had various new works created on the theme although the show also had other related works by other artists , the catalogue text is by Duncan MacMillan. VG+.

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12 Jul

Posted at 20:45h in Proposals

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1991
26 x 18cm, 20pp plus card wrappers and printed dust jacket. A proposal for Floriade, The Hague, Holland where 6 different inscribed milestones were to be situated. The first reminds one of a gravestone and its text a reminder of death as well as of a journey:

MAN
A passerby

The drawings were by Michael Harvey who also drew the proposed plan for the site where the milestones would be placed between two trees in a row.

ix Milestones A Proposal for £65.00 1991 with Michael Harvey 20 pp booklet with dustjacket .0 cm...

11 Jul

Posted at 14:24h in Artist's Books

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d. (1991) 9.2 x 7.6cm, 8pp plus card covers. Artist's book which has two definitions inside of the word Scud:
firstly, to sweep along easily and swiftly,: to drive before the wind: to traverse swiftly

and

to spank.

Finlay seems to have the idea of a boat moving quickly but also being forced along by its crew. VG+. ...

07 Jul

Posted at 22:42h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d. (1991) 11.6 x 14.6cm, 2pp. Artist's card which notes the names and dates of the two child martyrs of the French Revolution. The border around the names shows two drawings by Laurie Clark of a war drum and a child's toy horse on wheels - to remind the viewer how young the boys were when they died. VG+. ...

02 Jul

Posted at 21:25h in Artist's Books

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1991 10.0 x 6.8cm, 14pp plus wrappers and printed dust jacket. Artist's book with seven illustrations by Kathleen Lindsley and short proverb-like texts by Finlay, for example, "The wind roaring in the night is both stranger and friend." VG+ - although staples are a bit rusty. ...

08 Jun

Posted at 09:37h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d.. (1991) 3.1 x 14.7cm, 4pp artist's card (asymmetric fold) designed by Caroline Webb for Finlay with the French word ARBRE capped off a the front by an ornate letter M to create MARBRE which means mottled or marbled. The card refers to the silver birch (bouleau is French for Birch) and the way the bark can be of various colours. VG+. ...

07 Jun

Posted at 22:29h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d. (1991) 18.8 x 8.6cm, 2pp. Artist's card with a drawing of a guillotine on a platform above the text "A model of order even if set in a space filled with doubt". The killing machine is a perfect operator no matter where it is found. VG+. ...

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