Young & Contemporary Scottish Artists - Unoriginal Sins https://unoriginalsins.co.uk AVANT-GARDES Mon, 27 Jun 2022 20:35:37 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/cropped-nTKdHdZI-1-1-32x32.png Young & Contemporary Scottish Artists - Unoriginal Sins https://unoriginalsins.co.uk 32 32 UNTITLED. 2018. ARTIST’S PROOF. https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/untitled-red-2018-silkscreen/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=untitled-red-2018-silkscreen https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/untitled-red-2018-silkscreen/#respond Mon, 27 Jun 2022 20:24:37 +0000 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/?p=50497 Glasgow: s.p. (Allan), 2018
42 x 30cm, black silkscreen on cartridge paper displaying an isolated section of a building exterior with trunking. Typically displaying Allan's interest in urban architecture . An artist's proof from an unknown edition size - signed and dated in pencil at the bottom of the sheet.

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42 x 30cm, black silkscreen on cartridge paper displaying an isolated section of a building exterior with trunking. Typically displaying Allan's interest in urban architecture . An artist's proof from an unknown edition size - signed and dated in pencil at the bottom of the sheet.

The post UNTITLED. 2018. ARTIST’S PROOF. appeared first on Unoriginal Sins.]]> https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/untitled-red-2018-silkscreen/feed/ 0 UNTITLED (RED). 2010. SILKSCREEN. ONE OF EIGHT EXAMPLES. https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/untitled-red-2010-silkscreen-one-of-eight-examples/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=untitled-red-2010-silkscreen-one-of-eight-examples https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/untitled-red-2010-silkscreen-one-of-eight-examples/#respond Mon, 27 Jun 2022 20:21:19 +0000 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/?p=50495 Glasgow: s.p. (Allan), 2010
58 x 42cm, red silkscreen on cartridge paper displaying the outline of a column. Typically displaying Allan's interest in urban architecture . One of only 8 examples (each in a different colour) signed , numbered and dated in pencil at the bottom of the image.

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58 x 42cm, red silkscreen on cartridge paper displaying the outline of a column. Typically displaying Allan's interest in urban architecture . One of only 8 examples (each in a different colour) signed , numbered and dated in pencil at the bottom of the image.

The post UNTITLED (RED). 2010. SILKSCREEN. ONE OF EIGHT EXAMPLES. appeared first on Unoriginal Sins.]]> https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/untitled-red-2010-silkscreen-one-of-eight-examples/feed/ 0 ETNA, AVON MUD. 2009. UNIQUE PAINTING/DRAWING WITH RIVER AVON MUD. https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/etna-avon-mud-2009-unique-painting-drawing-with-river-avon-mud/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=etna-avon-mud-2009-unique-painting-drawing-with-river-avon-mud https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/etna-avon-mud-2009-unique-painting-drawing-with-river-avon-mud/#respond Mon, 27 Jun 2022 20:07:58 +0000 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/?p=50493 29.5 x 41.5cm, mud and graphite. Unique drawing with the word ETNA repeated and "falling". Part concrete poem and part homage to Richard Long who originally made works using the mud from the River. Signed and dated and titled in pencil along the bottom by Allan.

The post ETNA, AVON MUD. 2009. UNIQUE PAINTING/DRAWING WITH RIVER AVON MUD. appeared first on Unoriginal Sins.]]> 29.5 x 41.5cm, mud and graphite. Unique drawing with the word ETNA repeated and "falling". Part concrete poem and part homage to Richard Long who originally made works using the mud from the River. Signed and dated and titled in pencil along the bottom by Allan.

The post ETNA, AVON MUD. 2009. UNIQUE PAINTING/DRAWING WITH RIVER AVON MUD. appeared first on Unoriginal Sins.]]> https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/etna-avon-mud-2009-unique-painting-drawing-with-river-avon-mud/feed/ 0 UNTITLED. 2009. UNIQUE WORK. https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/untitled-2009-unique-work/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=untitled-2009-unique-work https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/untitled-2009-unique-work/#respond Mon, 27 Jun 2022 20:02:36 +0000 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/?p=50491 40 x 19 x 14cm, cut resin and two coloured t-shirts. A unique work which is one of the artist's earliest pieces where material items were placed in resin then cut and polished so that one side of the block has both resin and exposed areas of the fabric. Mint condition.

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The post A PIECE OF A RAINBOW. 2009. UNIQUE WORK. appeared first on Unoriginal Sins.]]> 50 x 25 x 25cm, cut resin and bridal veil. A unique work which is one of the artist's earliest pieces where material items were placed in resin then cut and polished so that one side of the block has both resin and exposed areas of the fabric. Mint condition.

The post A PIECE OF A RAINBOW. 2009. UNIQUE WORK. appeared first on Unoriginal Sins.]]> https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/a-piece-of-a-rainbow-2009-unique-work/feed/ 0 FACSIMILE LETTER FROM JACQUES DERRIDA TO MARIS REGARDING THE TRUTH IN PAINTING ALONG WITH ORIGINAL DESIGN FOR ANNOUNCEMENT CARD. 2006. https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/facsimile-letter-from-jacques-derrida-to-maris-regarding-the-truth-in-painting-along-with-original-design-for-announcement-card-2006/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=facsimile-letter-from-jacques-derrida-to-maris-regarding-the-truth-in-painting-along-with-original-design-for-announcement-card-2006 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/facsimile-letter-from-jacques-derrida-to-maris-regarding-the-truth-in-painting-along-with-original-design-for-announcement-card-2006/#respond Fri, 10 Sep 2021 08:20:48 +0000 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/?p=42831 Schiehallion: s.p. (Maris), n.d. (2002)
29 x 21cm, 1pp high resolution full colour ink jet facsimile copy of a letter sent by Jacques Derrida to Maris regarding their work "The Truth in Painting" which was a response to Derrida's philosophical work of the same title.
Maris pulped a copy of Derrida's book and made it into a grey pigment which they used to paint 12 canvasses which were hung as "The Truth in Painting" in Paul Robertson's Heart Gallery in Edinburgh in 2002.

JOINT:

ANNOTATIONS ON THE TRUTH IN PAINTING.
Two 30 x 21cm, 1pp sheets with notes by the artists on the philosophical implications of their work.

JOINT:

JUSTIFIED SINNERS.
Edinburgh: Morningstar Publications, 2002
12.5 x 17cm, 2pp announcement card for the title publication - the image on the front of the card is a reproduced photograph of Alexander Maris holding a Kalashnikov rifle in a countryside landscape. On the reverse is a note to Paul Robertson apologising for forgetting to send the facsimile and noting their design for an announcement card for the exhibition was included.

JOINT

DESIGN FOR THE TRUTH IN PAINTING AND OTHER PROPOSITIONS. 2002.
Two 30 x 21cm, 1pp sheets with a design for the front and back of the proposed announcement card for the artist's show in Heart Gallery.

ALl VG+.

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29 x 21cm, 1pp high resolution full colour ink jet facsimile copy of a letter sent by Jacques Derrida to Maris regarding their work "The Truth in Painting" which was a response to Derrida's philosophical work of the same title.
Maris pulped a copy of Derrida's book and made it into a grey pigment which they used to paint 12 canvasses which were hung as "The Truth in Painting" in Paul Robertson's Heart Gallery in Edinburgh in 2002.

JOINT:

ANNOTATIONS ON THE TRUTH IN PAINTING.
Two 30 x 21cm, 1pp sheets with notes by the artists on the philosophical implications of their work.

JOINT:

JUSTIFIED SINNERS.
Edinburgh: Morningstar Publications, 2002
12.5 x 17cm, 2pp announcement card for the title publication - the image on the front of the card is a reproduced photograph of Alexander Maris holding a Kalashnikov rifle in a countryside landscape. On the reverse is a note to Paul Robertson apologising for forgetting to send the facsimile and noting their design for an announcement card for the exhibition was included.

JOINT

DESIGN FOR THE TRUTH IN PAINTING AND OTHER PROPOSITIONS. 2002.
Two 30 x 21cm, 1pp sheets with a design for the front and back of the proposed announcement card for the artist's show in Heart Gallery.

ALl VG+.

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The post UNTITLED. 2015. UNIQUE WORK. appeared first on Unoriginal Sins.]]> https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/untitled-2015-unique-work/feed/ 0 TOILET SEAT (TURNER). 2016. UNIQUE WORK IN A SERIES. https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/toilet-seat-turner-2016-unique-work-in-a-series/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=toilet-seat-turner-2016-unique-work-in-a-series https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/toilet-seat-turner-2016-unique-work-in-a-series/#respond Mon, 22 Mar 2021 12:22:20 +0000 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/?p=40210 40 x 37 x 4cm (approx) two part wooden and plastic toilet seat with applied digital image on adhesive label of Turner's "Light and Colour (Goethe’s Theory) – The Morning after the Deluge – Moses Writing the Book of Genesis" from 1843. A unique work shown in series along with other famous images from art history all placed on such seats. Mint and thankfully unused.

The post TOILET SEAT (TURNER). 2016. UNIQUE WORK IN A SERIES. appeared first on Unoriginal Sins.]]> 40 x 37 x 4cm (approx) two part wooden and plastic toilet seat with applied digital image on adhesive label of Turner's "Light and Colour (Goethe’s Theory) – The Morning after the Deluge – Moses Writing the Book of Genesis" from 1843. A unique work shown in series along with other famous images from art history all placed on such seats. Mint and thankfully unused.

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6 x 16cm (approx), strip of vegan bacon in plastic bag sealed with tape along with a 15 x 21cm, 4pp homemade card with a photographic image by the artist. Inside the card is a lengthy pencil note from the artist to Paul Robertson noting the "bacon" was a part of her Approximately Bacon installation and wishing Robertson well during the COVID -19 lock-down. AN original relic from the show. Limitation unknown but not many. All VG+.

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The post APPROXIMATELY BACON. 2016. appeared first on Unoriginal Sins.]]> https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/approximately-bacon-2016/feed/ 0 TABOO PLAYING CARDS. 2020. ONE OF 50 SIGNED & NUMBERED & DATED EXAMPLES. https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/taboo-playing-cards-2020-one-of-50-signed-numbered-dated-examples/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=taboo-playing-cards-2020-one-of-50-signed-numbered-dated-examples https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/taboo-playing-cards-2020-one-of-50-signed-numbered-dated-examples/#respond Tue, 19 Jan 2021 19:27:02 +0000 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/?p=38518 Edinburgh: Sarah Muirhead, 2020
9 x 6.5cm printed white cardboard box content of 52 different playing cards with each back a different reproduction of a small painting by Muirhead. During the 2020 first Covid lockdown, the artist painted 53 different small paintings on cards (each commissioned by a different person) with the imagery being in the main sexual (and taboo) imagery.
This is the full set of cards issued in only 50 examples with the box signed in pencil on the outside by Muirhead, dated and numbered. VG+.

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9 x 6.5cm printed white cardboard box content of 52 different playing cards with each back a different reproduction of a small painting by Muirhead. During the 2020 first Covid lockdown, the artist painted 53 different small paintings on cards (each commissioned by a different person) with the imagery being in the main sexual (and taboo) imagery.
This is the full set of cards issued in only 50 examples with the box signed in pencil on the outside by Muirhead, dated and numbered. VG+.

The post TABOO PLAYING CARDS. 2020. ONE OF 50 SIGNED & NUMBERED & DATED EXAMPLES. appeared first on Unoriginal Sins.]]> https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/taboo-playing-cards-2020-one-of-50-signed-numbered-dated-examples/feed/ 0 THERAPEUTICUM: INVITATION TO AN IMAGINARY REQUEIM SUPPER MARIS III. 09.09.09. 2020. https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/therapeuticum-invitation-to-an-imaginary-requeim-supper-maris-iii-090-09-09-2020/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=therapeuticum-invitation-to-an-imaginary-requeim-supper-maris-iii-090-09-09-2020 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/therapeuticum-invitation-to-an-imaginary-requeim-supper-maris-iii-090-09-09-2020/#respond Thu, 17 Dec 2020 09:31:47 +0000 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/?p=37618 Loch Ranoch: Maris, 2020
30 x 21cm, 2pp archival inject print on Hahnemuhle German Etching paper inviting Paul Robertson to a “requiem supper” by Alexander and Susan Maris commemorating the 50th Anniversary of Celtic (Kinloch Rannoch) Scottish Symphony by Joseph Beuys and Henning Christiansen. The event has a menu of soup, fish and other Scottish gourmet items but sadly the event was “in spirit only” and a theoretical meet up (in part because the COVID-19 pandemic had meant lock-downs in parts of Scotland were in place and travel dsicouraged). Signed by both Alexander and Sue Maris on the reverse. VG+.
JOINT:
30 x 21cm, 1pp press release for the event. VG+.

The post THERAPEUTICUM: INVITATION TO AN IMAGINARY REQUEIM SUPPER MARIS III. 09.09.09. 2020. appeared first on Unoriginal Sins.]]> The post THERAPEUTICUM: INVITATION TO AN IMAGINARY REQUEIM SUPPER MARIS III. 09.09.09. 2020. appeared first on Unoriginal Sins.]]> https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/therapeuticum-invitation-to-an-imaginary-requeim-supper-maris-iii-090-09-09-2020/feed/ 0 THE SOUND OF A FRUSTRATED CHARLES M. SHULZ. 2017. ONE OF THREE SIGNED & NUMBERED EXAMPLES. https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/the-sound-of-a-frustrated-charles-m-shulz-2017-one-of-three-signed-numbered-examples/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-sound-of-a-frustrated-charles-m-shulz-2017-one-of-three-signed-numbered-examples https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/the-sound-of-a-frustrated-charles-m-shulz-2017-one-of-three-signed-numbered-examples/#respond Sun, 29 Nov 2020 09:39:33 +0000 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/?p=36212 Glasgow: Project 78 Gallery, 2017

23 x 17 x 5cm, unprinted two part cardboard box content of a 63 part (large piece format) jigsaw which when solved shows the work SIGH - which the title indicates as coming from the creator of the Peanuts cartoon series. An image of the completed jigsaw is tipped on the inner box lid. One of only three such puzzles signed and numbered on a 7.5 x 21cm, 1pp printed insert. Some stains to outer unprinted box else VG+.
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A signed typed letter from Scott Robertson offering the work as a gift to Paul Robertson from the artist.

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23 x 17 x 5cm, unprinted two part cardboard box content of a 63 part (large piece format) jigsaw which when solved shows the work SIGH - which the title indicates as coming from the creator of the Peanuts cartoon series. An image of the completed jigsaw is tipped on the inner box lid. One of only three such puzzles signed and numbered on a 7.5 x 21cm, 1pp printed insert. Some stains to outer unprinted box else VG+.
JOINT WITH:
A signed typed letter from Scott Robertson offering the work as a gift to Paul Robertson from the artist.

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