Glasgow: s.p. (Monk), 1991
3 x 4cm, black on white adhesive label with the text: "ONE OF A THOUSAND ARTWORKS BY JONATHAN MONK" printed on them. This is one of 1,000 such sticky labels produced each as an artwork. A very early object/print multiple by the artist.
Glasgow: Fuse Project, 1993
15.5 x 11 x 1cm, printed colour folder content of 40 different artist designed cards by those Glaswegian artists who had studios in the Fuse Project building in Bridgeton. The artists includes some very famous names - Martin Boyce, Douglas Gordon, Emma Kay, Ross Sinclair, Simon Starling and Monk. Each card was different but Monk has a self-portrait made up as Gene Simmons from Kiss in full make-up. A very early work by the artist. One additional card with background to the project. The cards are all in VG+ condition but the printed folder is a bit worn and aged. Rare.
Glasgow: CCA Studio, 1994
15 x 10.5cm, 2pp announcement card with a b/w portrait of the younger artist on the front. Monk's forth ever public exhibitions (where he showed a video work) - the show being open for one day only. Verso gallery details. VG+. Scarce early card.
Glasgow: Tramway, 1995
15 x 10.5cm, 2pp announcement card for the launch of Monk's first book "Lying Judas". On the front is a photographic work "It's a dirty job but someone's got to do it" of a cleaner looking up the skirt of a sculpture of a woman. VG+. Very early ephemera.
Glasgow/Loire: Tramway/Frac de Pays de la Loire, 1995BR>
21 x 15cm 48pp plus card covers. Exhibition catalogue from conceptualist Monk's second Glasgow one man show which was entitled "A Brush with Death".
Monk's work often takes the works of great artists and gives it a twist. Particularly good are Monk's holiday paintings - the essence of a vacation instilled into a textual advert on canvas - sold at the same price as the original holiday. Fine. Scarce.
London: CIty Racing, n.d. (1996)
30 x 42cm, b/w offset exhibiton poster with a design by Monk (taken from a 1970s teen film) and a title taken from the Tommy Steele song (from Half A Sixpence). This was Monk's tenth only exhibition and his first in London. A folded and mailed copy sent to the poet Douglas Park.
14.5 x 18.8cm, b/w silver gelatine print on Ilford MgIV paper displaying an unused (ie not reproduced in the artist's book "None of the buildings on the Sunset Strip") - an unique photograph.
On the rear in Monk's handwriting are the settings for the camera that he used, the word's "Artist's Proof" and the title "NONE OF THE BUILDINGS ON SUNSET STRIP", his signature in ink and the date 1997.
One small stain on the reverse and a very small, hard to notice fixative stain on the front but otherwise mint condition and unique.
JOINT:
A handwritten note from the artist to Paul Robertson explaining the photograph and offering it in part trade for future purchases. The letter is coffee stained on the left hand side due to large-dog-accident (bloody Yuri the first avant guard dog did it, clumsy lump of an animal but much missed).
Paris: Yvon Lambert, 1998
12 x 8cm, 2pp announcement card with an appropriated image of a man standing on his head but Monk has rotated the image such that the man supporting the gymnast is upside down and the acrobat is the right way up. Verso gallery details. This was Monk's 16th ever solo show and the first at Yvon Lambert's gallery. The card is signed in blue ink on the back by Monk. VG+.
Paris: Yvon Lambert, 1998
42 x 30cm, 2pp small poster with an appropriated image of a man standing on his head but Monk has rotated the image such that the man supporting the gymnast is upside down and the acrobat is the right way up. Verso gallery details. This was Monk's 16th ever solo show and the first at Yvon Lambert's gallery. The poster is folded twice for mailing and is signed in pencil on the back by Monk. VG+.
Stuttgart: Revolver, 1999
20.4 X 15.7cm, unpaginated plus card covers with French folds. Artist's book photographically documenting two dogs in black and white images with one shown on one side of the open fold and the other opposite, followed by a number of blank colour pages. The pairing of two animals may be a nod to Boetti's fascination with couplings (although Boetti's interest was in the duality of twins) but nothing is very clear other than the nostalgia that Monk feels for his own family and their animals although one dog is his mother's and the other a dog that lives in Stuttgart. One of 500 hand numbered copies. VG+.
Manchester: Cornerhouse, 2000
21 x 15cm, 2pp announcement card for a large group show with reproduction of a drawing by Monk on the front in b/w and verso gallery details and a list of artists who included Rosa Almeida, Darren ALmond, John Baldessari, Christian Boltanski, Ian Breakwell, Adam Dant, Hanne Darboven, Jeremy Deller, Tracey Emin, On Kawara, Emma Kay, Mary Kelly, Michael Landy, Richard Long, Tracey Moffatt, Gabriel Orozco, David Shrigley, Georgina Starr and others. VG+.
Venice: s.p., 2000
60.5 x 83.5cm, full colour offset print (wide margins) - one of an unlimited (in theory) prints/ floor posters issued by Monk during the Venice Biennale. The image is of the artist's mother and father with a small monkey (presumably standing in for the artist). We have no information whatsoever if Jonathan Monk was indeed a "little monkey"when a child? This example is unusually signed by Monk in blue ink under the image - slight damage on the left top but else VG.
N.p. (Paris): n.p. (Yvon Lambert), n.d. (1998)
11 x 14cm, 1pp unused card from the title multiple which Monk has used as a note card with on the back a handwritten text: "Dear Paul/Hope this is OK/best/Jonathan" Sent by Monk to Paul Robertson in 2000.
Paris/London: Galerie Yvon Lambert/Book Works, 2000
10 x 12.5cm, 8pp concertina folded single sheet with one of Monk's meeting works printed on it - suggesting a rendezvous at the Tour de Eiffel on the 13th October 2008. Printed in an edition of 10,000 copies according to the publication. In original printed envelope with the title and name of artist. VG+.
Taipei: Pigeon Post Cards, 2000
15 x 10.5cm, 2pp announcement card for Monk's participation in the Taipei Biennial where he showed the title slideshow - the front being one detail from the installation (originally made in 1997). On back publisher's details. Signed in blue ink by Monk on the back.
Stuttgart: Revolver, 2000
12 inch, LP record in 31.2 x 31 cm gatefold printed sleeve and printed inner sleeve. Artist's collaborative record with Monk, Gordon and others rocking out. The record was regarded as the exhibition catalogue for the group show. Slight wear to sleeve otherwise fine. Rare.
