Alan Smithee - Unoriginal Sins https://unoriginalsins.co.uk AVANT-GARDES Thu, 16 Oct 2025 17:30:08 +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 Alan Smithee - Unoriginal Sins https://unoriginalsins.co.uk 32 32 GUILLOTINE. 2022. ONE OF 100 EMBROIDERY CLOTHES PATCHES. https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/product/guillotine-2022-one-of-100-embroidery-clothes-patches/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=guillotine-2022-one-of-100-embroidery-clothes-patches Thu, 02 Oct 2025 18:27:00 +0000 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=50670 Temple:Show & Tell Editions, 2022

75 x 45cm, machine made embroidered clothing patch in silver-grey and red. Issued on Bastille Day 2022, Smithee's clothing patch is in the shape of a guillotine and has the text "ROBESPIERRE WAS CUTTING EDGE" on it. The artist, a professed republican, has said that while the Terror of the French Revolution "probably went too far", "it did make a point".

One of 100 unnumbered examples - each in transparent self-sealing plastic bag. VG+.

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75 x 45cm, machine made embroidered clothing patch in silver-grey and red. Issued on Bastille Day 2022, Smithee's clothing patch is in the shape of a guillotine and has the text "ROBESPIERRE WAS CUTTING EDGE" on it. The artist, a professed republican, has said that while the Terror of the French Revolution "probably went too far", "it did make a point".

One of 100 unnumbered examples - each in transparent self-sealing plastic bag. VG+.

The post GUILLOTINE. 2022. ONE OF 100 EMBROIDERY CLOTHES PATCHES. appeared first on Unoriginal Sins.]]> HISTORICAL MATERIALISM. 2021. ONE OF 50 INITIALLED EXAMPLES. https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/product/42613/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=42613 Wed, 25 Aug 2021 16:12:36 +0000 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=42613 Gorebridge: Show & Tell Editions, 2021

12 x 18cm, paper and plastic sealed envelope content of four 10.5 x 15cm, 1pp digital prints on 290 micro uncoated paper stock.

Two of the sheets are appropriated images of 1980s  “escort” cards found in a British artist’s archive after his death.

One of the cards (the Massage card) is exactly as it was found: Alan Smithee recognised that the rose on it had been copied from the 1980s Labour Party logo.
He added the Conservative Party logo from the same time to the other card (Experienced Mistress) and had both cards reprinted.
An edition of only 50 examples - all initialled by Smithee.
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12 x 18cm, paper and plastic sealed envelope content of four 10.5 x 15cm, 1pp digital prints on 290 micro uncoated paper stock.

Two of the sheets are appropriated images of 1980s  “escort” cards found in a British artist’s archive after his death.

One of the cards (the Massage card) is exactly as it was found: Alan Smithee recognised that the rose on it had been copied from the 1980s Labour Party logo.
He added the Conservative Party logo from the same time to the other card (Experienced Mistress) and had both cards reprinted.
An edition of only 50 examples - all initialled by Smithee.
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21 x 15cm, 16pp (single folded sheet). Programme for the visual arts programme for February to March curated by Paul Robertson. Lists exhibitions by Alan Smithee, Dieter Roth, Harry Papadopoluous, Ian Hughes and Stephanie Mann. The full inner sheet of the programme opens to become a poster for Mann's solo show. VG+.

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21 x 15cm, 16pp (single folded sheet). Programme for the visual arts programme for February to March curated by Paul Robertson. Lists exhibitions by Alan Smithee, Dieter Roth, Harry Papadopoluous, Ian Hughes and Stephanie Mann. The full inner sheet of the programme opens to become a poster for Mann's solo show. VG+.

The post INHERIT THIS MANGO. 2014. appeared first on Unoriginal Sins.]]> ANCHORESS 2019. 2020. EDITION OF 10 SIGNED & NUMBERED PRINTS. https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/product/anchoress-2019-2020-edition-of-10-signed-numbered-prints/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=anchoress-2019-2020-edition-of-10-signed-numbered-prints Tue, 20 Oct 2020 20:56:30 +0000 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=34563 Gorebridge: Show & Tell Editions, 2020.
42.5 x 60cm unprinted cardboard folded with printed label content of a 42 x 59.4cm full colour Giclee print.

Smithee (1981) is a bit of a recluse. In fact he is rarely seen even at his own exhibitions and installations. He primarily works in sculpture, photography (using only iPhone images) and installations. The latter works are always created by the artist’s instruction to others as he refuses to be involved in the construction.
Anchoress 2019 references the Middle Ages' phenomena of women (it was usually women) being bricked up into cells in churches never to be released again; spending their lives reliant on the goodwill of the local community (who had to bring food and drink and dispose of the waste of the occupant), offering advice to those willing to talk to them through a small hole in the wall and dedicating their thoughts and actions to their Christian god (usually the stone chambers had a second hole internal to the church where they could see the nave and alter and take part in rites). 

Smithee’s naked Anchoress was bricked into a temporary brick cell at Lust and the Apple during the exhibition opening and was not allowed (or be able) to leave the construction for 24 hours. In that time visitors were welcome to seek moral or life advice from the wise and virtuous woman.
This Giclee print Is issued in an edition of only 10 numbered and signed prints and two artist’s proofs; both signed and denoted as AP1 and AP2.
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42.5 x 60cm unprinted cardboard folded with printed label content of a 42 x 59.4cm full colour Giclee print.

Smithee (1981) is a bit of a recluse. In fact he is rarely seen even at his own exhibitions and installations. He primarily works in sculpture, photography (using only iPhone images) and installations. The latter works are always created by the artist’s instruction to others as he refuses to be involved in the construction.
Anchoress 2019 references the Middle Ages' phenomena of women (it was usually women) being bricked up into cells in churches never to be released again; spending their lives reliant on the goodwill of the local community (who had to bring food and drink and dispose of the waste of the occupant), offering advice to those willing to talk to them through a small hole in the wall and dedicating their thoughts and actions to their Christian god (usually the stone chambers had a second hole internal to the church where they could see the nave and alter and take part in rites). 

Smithee’s naked Anchoress was bricked into a temporary brick cell at Lust and the Apple during the exhibition opening and was not allowed (or be able) to leave the construction for 24 hours. In that time visitors were welcome to seek moral or life advice from the wise and virtuous woman.
This Giclee print Is issued in an edition of only 10 numbered and signed prints and two artist’s proofs; both signed and denoted as AP1 and AP2.
The post ANCHORESS 2019. 2020. EDITION OF 10 SIGNED & NUMBERED PRINTS. appeared first on Unoriginal Sins.]]> 2020 REVISION PORTFOLIO. 2020. FOUR GICLEE PRINTS IN BOX – SIGNED & NUMBERED EDITION OF 10 EXAMPLES. https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/product/2020-revision-portfolio-2020-four-giclee-prints-in-box-signed-numbered-edition-of-10-examples/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=2020-revision-portfolio-2020-four-giclee-prints-in-box-signed-numbered-edition-of-10-examples Tue, 20 Oct 2020 20:46:19 +0000 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/?p=34555 Gorebridge: Show & Tell Editions, 2020.
44.5 x 33.5 x 2cm, two part conservation, black cardboard presentation box content of four, 42 x 29.5cm full colour Giclee prints. A portfolio of works from Alan Smithee.
Alan Smithee (1981) is a bit of a recluse. In fact he is rarely seen even at his own exhibitions and installations.
Smithee spent the COVID 19 lockdown in a bothy in the North of Scotland, alone. For more than 20 weeks.
This resulting portfolio of photographs is a response to that isolation and loneliness - four images taken from the artist’s iPhone.
The choice of the use of phone images is deliberate - Smithee has written extensively on the failure of modern photography to divorce itself from expensive technique - his intent is to return photography to the conceptual and he believes this is best done by restricting the artist’s equipment to the most basic and the most immediate.
The four Giclee prints in the portfolio are entitled CHOICE, GENETICS, WET DREAM CATCHER and COMA.
Each print was issued in an edition of 10 numbered and signed prints and two artist’s proofs; both signed and denoted as AP1 and AP2.

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44.5 x 33.5 x 2cm, two part conservation, black cardboard presentation box content of four, 42 x 29.5cm full colour Giclee prints. A portfolio of works from Alan Smithee.
Alan Smithee (1981) is a bit of a recluse. In fact he is rarely seen even at his own exhibitions and installations.
Smithee spent the COVID 19 lockdown in a bothy in the North of Scotland, alone. For more than 20 weeks.
This resulting portfolio of photographs is a response to that isolation and loneliness - four images taken from the artist’s iPhone.
The choice of the use of phone images is deliberate - Smithee has written extensively on the failure of modern photography to divorce itself from expensive technique - his intent is to return photography to the conceptual and he believes this is best done by restricting the artist’s equipment to the most basic and the most immediate.
The four Giclee prints in the portfolio are entitled CHOICE, GENETICS, WET DREAM CATCHER and COMA.
Each print was issued in an edition of 10 numbered and signed prints and two artist’s proofs; both signed and denoted as AP1 and AP2.

The post 2020 REVISION PORTFOLIO. 2020. FOUR GICLEE PRINTS IN BOX – SIGNED & NUMBERED EDITION OF 10 EXAMPLES. appeared first on Unoriginal Sins.]]> COMPLETE COLLECTION OF LUST & THE APPLE ANNOUNCEMENT AND ARISTS’ CARDS + 2 CATALOGUES2014 – 2019. https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/product/complete-collection-of-lust-the-apple-announcement-and-arists-cards-2-catalogues2014-2019/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=complete-collection-of-lust-the-apple-announcement-and-arists-cards-2-catalogues2014-2019 Fri, 01 Nov 2019 18:35:24 +0000 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=1485

Gorebridge: Lust & the Apple/ Show and Tell Editions, 2015 - 20179.

A complete collection of over 20 different 10.5 x 15cm, 2pp digitally printed announcement cards issued for a series of exhibitions at Lust & the Apple Gallery in Scotland and two different 15 x 21cm, exhibition catalogues. Artists include Lawrence Weiner (x2), Gregor Schneider, Paul-Armand Gette, Cary Liebowitz, Bruce McLean, Chrsitian Boltanski, David Bellingham, Cisco Jimenez, Alan Smithee, Tom Sachs, Micah Lexier, and others. All fine.

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Gorebridge: Lust & the Apple/ Show and Tell Editions, 2015 - 20179.

A complete collection of over 20 different 10.5 x 15cm, 2pp digitally printed announcement cards issued for a series of exhibitions at Lust & the Apple Gallery in Scotland and two different 15 x 21cm, exhibition catalogues. Artists include Lawrence Weiner (x2), Gregor Schneider, Paul-Armand Gette, Cary Liebowitz, Bruce McLean, Chrsitian Boltanski, David Bellingham, Cisco Jimenez, Alan Smithee, Tom Sachs, Micah Lexier, and others. All fine.

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60 x 44cm, b/w giclee print on thick paper. The Grudge Hut was an installation by the reclusive Smithee in Summerhall, Edinburgh, 2014 where visitors to the work were encouraged to leave offerings to their gods along with a note of whatever revenge they wished on a named individual against whom they hold a grudge. The print is a reproduction of a (hilarious) note left by a young girl wishing the Ebola virus on her classmate who she has fallen out with along with the biblical reference Romans 12:19 - “Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.”. Signed and numbered from an edition of ten copies. Fine.
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60 x 44cm, b/w giclee print on thick paper. The Grudge Hut was an installation by the reclusive Smithee in Summerhall, Edinburgh, 2014 where visitors to the work were encouraged to leave offerings to their gods along with a note of whatever revenge they wished on a named individual against whom they hold a grudge. The print is a reproduction of a (hilarious) note left by a young girl wishing the Ebola virus on her classmate who she has fallen out with along with the biblical reference Romans 12:19 - “Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.”. Signed and numbered from an edition of ten copies. Fine.
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