DAVID BELLINGHAM

David Bellingham lives and works in Glasgow. He is an artist who works in a number of different fields including drawing and painting, artist’s books, photography, film, installation and sound art. Much of his output is textual in form – early works being visual and concrete poetry but later introducing aspects of conceptual art.

 

Having worked early in his career with Ian Hamilton Finlay, David Harding, Pavel Buchler, Thomas Joshua Cooper and Rodger Palmer – Bellingham has created a wide range of works alongside the creation of a publishing house in WAX366 (named after the registration of his beloved car).
This archive of books, cards, editions and original works has been created by Paul Robertson since first meeting Bellingham in 2000. Robertson and Bellingham have worked together on a number of exhibitions and project including the highly significant TURNOUT project where Bellingham re-wrote the entire vote of the first ever Scottish Parliament election – a phenomenal effort on the part of the artist who had to draw over 2 million Xs to complete the project in Robertson’s Heart Gallery in Edinburgh in 2005.

 

There are nearly 150 items in this collection – many of the books are unique hand made items and some of the artist’s earliest works from 1997 onwards are included in the group.
The archive may be for sale both as a collection or as individual items – please email mail@unoriginalsins.com to discuss further.

YEARS. IDEAS. 2014. SIGNED BY BELLINGHAM.

Glasgow: Wax366, 2014
11.5 x 16.5cm, 4pp . Artist's card issued as a New Year gift to friends and colleagues - on the front various adjectives are written (white on black) that could be applied to years, and on the back cove the same words applied to the concept of "Ideas". Hand signed on the inside of the card by the artist. VG+. Scarce.

A LENGTH OF CHARCOAL FROM A LENGTH OF THE HEN RUN. 2014. EACH CARD UNIQUE WITH A LINE DRAWN USING THE CHARCOAL.

Glasgow: Wax366, 2014
10.5 x 15cm, 2pp artist postcard with a colour image of some charcoal taken from the "Hen Run" of the Glasgow School of Art following the fire of 23rd May 2014. On the reverse, there is a mark made by Bellingham using the charcoal which makes each card unique. VG+

PROPOSAL FOR A FLAG. UNIQUE DRAWING. 2014.

21 x 15cm, black on white inkjet with found hand applied colours. A proposal for a unique artwork - a flag of all four British nations with the word "land" replaced by a colour although Wales also has a colour - this was never realised. A work promoting the idea of British commonality against the separatism of some Scottish politicians. Slight creases else VG. Unique.

YEARS HAVE NO NEED FOR DAYS. DAYS HAVE NO NEED FOR YEARS. 2015.

Glasgow: WAX366, 2015
14.5 x 21cm, 2pp letterpress artist postcard with the texts "YEARS HAVE NO NEED FOR DAYS." and "DAYS HAVE NO NEED FOR YEARS." on opposite sides. Issued as a New Year gift by Bellingham for friends and colleagues. VG+

EVERYDAY OBJECT. 2015.

Glasgow: Wax366, 2015
15 x 10.5cm, backing card with the title text EVERYDAY OBJECT on it and a tipped on paper calendar. The joke being the pun of course, Housed in original plastic folder. VG+ - a New Year gift from Bellingham to friends and colleagues - limitation not many. VG+.

HIDDEN SOLAR SYSTEM. 2015. BROWN CARD VARIANT.

Iona: Iona Craft Shop, 2015
21 x 15cm, letterpress and foil stamping on thick brown card, 2pp. Bellingham was commissioned by the Iona Craft Shop to create a new work and he made various scale models of the planets out of bronze and buried them in a remote field on the island of Iona. Each was buried a relative distance from the surface as their average orbits are from the sun. There is no overground record other than the map on the back of this card that shows where the works are - and even that map only shows the outline of the field. Jupiter was the size of an orange and Pluto (hmmm - a planet?) the size of a pea. Mercury is four inches from ground level and Neptune is found nine feet deep.
There are two cards - one on white, the other on brown, this is the latter.
"There is nothing to see, just a story to tell about a buried solar system that mimics the one about our heads."

HIDDEN SOLAR SYSTEM. 2015. WHITE CARD VARIANT.

Iona: Iona Craft Shop, 2015
21 x 15cm, letterpress and foil stamping on thick white card, 2pp. Bellingham was commissioned by the Iona Craft Shop to create a new work and he made various scale models of the planets out of bronze and buried them in a remote field on the island of Iona. Each was buried a relative distance from the surface as their average orbits are from the sun. There is no overground record other than the map on the back of this card that shows where the works are - and even that map only shows the outline of the field. Jupiter was the size of an orange and Pluto (hmmm - a planet?) the size of a pea. Mercury is four inches from ground level and Neptune is found nine feet deep.
There are two cards - one on white, the other on brown, this is the former..
"There is nothing to see, just a story to tell about a buried solar system that mimics the one about our heads."

SOME DIAGONAL LINES. 2015.

Pittenweem: Cairn, n.d. (2015)
10.5 x 15cm, 2pp, typographic announcement card for a joint show between Bellingham and Thomas A. Clark where the space was covered in coloured diagonal lines. VG+.

THE WORLD HAS BEEN EMPTY SINCE THE POSTCARD. 2015.

Glasgow: Wax366, 2015
10.5 x 15cm, 2pp artist postcard printed letterpress with a reworking of Saint Just's text from the arrest of Danton, the original reading: "The World has been empty since the Romans and only their Memory fills it and still prophesies Liberty." VG+

THE WORLD EXISTS TO BE PUT ON A POSTCARD. 2015.

Glasgow: Wax366, 2015
10.5 x 15cm, 2pp artist postcard printed letterpress with a reworking of a quotation by Stephane Mallarme - the original reading: "...que tout, au monde, existe pour aboutir a un livre". VG+

UTOPIA DAY. 29 FEBRUARY 2016. 2016.

Glasgow: WAX366, 2016
8 x 15.5cm, 2pp announcement card asking recipients to take part in "a day of tolerance" - "a temporary state of Utopia" on the leap day in 2016. Typographic design. VG+
JOINT:
30 x 21cm, 1pp. Offset black on red letter explaining the concept. Folded for mailing.

IONA SOLAR SYSTEM. 2016.

Iona: Iona Craft Shop, 2016
15 x 10.5cm, 2pp artist's postcard - in 2015 of the planets out of bronze and buried them in a remote field on the island of Iona. Each was buried a relative distance from the surface as their average orbits are from the sun.
This card is an extension of that work in postcard form where the island of Iona is placed amongst the planets as if it is in the outer reaches of the solar system.

IONA AN ISLAND OFF AN ISLAND OFF AN ISLAND. 2016.

Iona: Iona Craft Shop, 2016
10.5 x 15cm, 2pp artist's postcard - a drawing on the front shows the island of Iona relative to two other islands - the similarities to object in orbit around each others. VG+.

UTOPIA DAY. 29 FEBRUARY 2016. 2016. POSTER.

Glasgow: WAX366, 2016
42 x 30cm, 1pp poster advertising Bellingham's "a day of tolerance" - "a temporary state of Utopia" on the leap day in 2016. Typographic design. Folded for mailing else VG+

HAMLET AND DESCARTES AN IMAGINARY DIALOGUE. 2016.

Glasgow: Wax366, 2016
12.5 x 10.7cm, 2pp artist postcard issued on the date of Shakespeare's 400th death. The text on the front mixes up well known phrases by both the dramaturge and the philosopher. Decartes' and Shakespeare's lives did in fact overlap for 2o years. VG+.

BACKGROUND AND FOREGROUND TAKING TURNS TO SPEAK. 2016.

Glasgow: WAX336, 2016
21 x 15cm, 4pp (created by a single folded sheet silkscreen printed white on brown). Artist's card with four texts: "THIS CLOSER THAN THAT", "THAT BEHIND THIS", "THAT CLOSER THAN THIS" and "THIS BEHIND THAT". Bellingham claims that this is a "moral tale in which the foreground of the nearby is given shape by the background of the faraway....". VG+

ELECTED WORKS. C. 2016?

Pittenweem: Cairn Gallery, n.d. (c. 2016) 10.5 x 15cm, 2pp typographic announcement card for a show of works curated by Bellingham - including Pavel Buchler, Laurie and Thomas A. CLark, Thomas Joshua Cooper, SImon Cutts, Jonathan Monk, Harry Gilonis, Colin Sackett, David Shrigley and others

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