Berlin: Eroticxa, n.d. (c 2009)
38 x 34cm, black silkscreen on cream cotton pus handles. One of a number of such bags where Monk indicates his interest in their products by his simple endorsement. On the back of the bag, the design is repeated but in a mirror image. Slightly faded but else VG+.
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Cluny: Ecuries de Saint Hugues à Cluny, 2008. 60 x 40cm, full colour offset lithographic exhibition for an installation in the cloisters pf the Saint Hugues à Cluny where hanging bright lights slowly go out until all are "dead". One colour view of the installation with floating text. Folded for mailing else VG. ...
Aachen: NAK, 2007
10 x 21cm, 2pp. Announcement card for a conceptual art show where Monk created a jigsaw puzzle in metal on teh floor referencing Carl Andre. VG+.
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NYC: Printed Matter, 2007
30 x21cm, 1pp offset lithographic b/w print reproducing a letter from Roger Bywater to Monk asking him to produce a limited edition print for the Printed Matter NYC artist's book fair. Monk simply reproduced the letter and released it in an unnumbered edition (probably around 500) but signed in pencil bottom right. VG+ although very mild handling soft creases.
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Hannover: Kunst Verein Hannover, 2006
10 x 21cm, 6pp. Announcement card for a solo show with one work (an upside down bicycle) illustrated plus gallery texts. This example is signed by Monk and additionally has a white post-it note added "Dear Paul 2 more cards with thanks JM" (a reference to Postcards Posted from Post Box Pictures which Monk had asked Paul Robertson to post from the box on Edinburgh's Royal Mile. VG+.
JOINT:
Hand addressed by Monk postal envelope.
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Commercial Colorscope postcard displaying Kings Canyon National Park in Calefornia and the General grant Tree (the "nation's Christmas tree") sent to Paul Robertson at Xmas 2005 from Jonathan Monk with a handwritten note on the back in pencil "Dear Paul/Let me know if any of this is of interest/until then/JM". JOINT: A hand addressed (by Monk) airmail envelope....
London: ICA, 2005
21 x 15cm, 4pp. One of a series of exhibition catalogues which changed daily as Monk insisted that the daily list of items in the exhibition should change with a small number of works being replaced (rotated) from a storeroom of his works held elsewhere on a daily basis. Hence each "daily diary" was different from the next. All fine.
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Avignon: Collection Lambert en Avignon, 2005
15 x 15 x 15cm, espresso coffee cup and saucer with an image of Warhol on the inside of the bottom of the cup and the title "I saw Andy Warhol at the bottom of my cup for a second, then he vanished." on the saucer. A limited edition object multiple which reminds the owner of the short timescale of Warhol's famous dictum that "in the future everyone will be famlus for 15 minutes."...
Copenhagen: Galleri NIcolai Wallner, 2002 30 x 42cm, 1pp black and brown offset lithographic exhibition poster with one b/w photograph of a family party above gallery information. This example is signed boldly by Monk in red felt tipped pen. Folded as issued for mailing, else VG+....
Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1999 10 x 10.6cm, 8pp plus card covers. String bound. Artist's book with 3 small landscape drawings by Kathleen Lindsley below each of which is a referejnce to a literary figure - for example a ploughed field is "A Remembrance of Robert Burns: Furrow". VG+. ...
LittleSparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1998 18 x 15cm, 60pp plus card covers. Artist's book showing 29 full page b/w photographs of toilet paper inner tubes overlaid with fishing port numbers and boat numbers to give a visual pun of funnels. The typography was by John Andrew and photographs by David Paterson. One of only 250 copies published - VG+. ...
Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d. (1990s?)
8.2 x 10.7cm, 4pp outer folder with image of old unused flowerpots by Gary Hincks and inside a poem by FInlay:
CORNER
Earthenware,
earth & wear.
The meaning of which is obvious - the old pots on the front showing "wear". VG+.
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