IAN GARDNER - Unoriginal Sins https://unoriginalsins.co.uk AVANT-GARDES Wed, 11 Jun 2025 22:59:57 +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 IAN GARDNER - Unoriginal Sins https://unoriginalsins.co.uk 32 32 EYE SPY TREES. 1980. https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/product/eye-spy-trees-1980/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=eye-spy-trees-1980 Wed, 01 Sep 2021 18:35:25 +0000 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=42713 Wilsden: Blue Tunnel Publications, 1980

13.3 x 10cm, 16pp plus silkscreened wrappers. A visual poetry artist's book with various drawings of trees and short texts comparing the trees to Lorraine and Poussin. The drawings are by Ian Gardner and text by Patrick Eyres. The conceit being that the reader is part of an "eye spy" collecting club (a British children's series of publications). VG++.

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13.3 x 10cm, 16pp plus silkscreened wrappers. A visual poetry artist's book with various drawings of trees and short texts comparing the trees to Lorraine and Poussin. The drawings are by Ian Gardner and text by Patrick Eyres. The conceit being that the reader is part of an "eye spy" collecting club (a British children's series of publications). VG++.

The post EYE SPY TREES. 1980. appeared first on Unoriginal Sins.]]> METAPHOR AND MOTIF. 1972. https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/product/metaphor-and-motif-1972-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=metaphor-and-motif-1972-2 Sun, 05 Jul 2020 08:59:21 +0000 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/?p=27864 Nottingham: The Tarasque Press, 1972
22.5 x 20cm, 28pp plus pictorial wrappers. Exhibition catalogue of show of concrete poetry works edited by Stephen Bann. Contributions by Simon Cutts, Ian Gardner, Stuart Mills and Finlay who has three pages of b/w photographs (4 images) taken by Stuart Mills. Slight grubbiness along outer spine else VG. Scarce Catalogue.

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22.5 x 20cm, 28pp plus pictorial wrappers. Exhibition catalogue of show of concrete poetry works edited by Stephen Bann. Contributions by Simon Cutts, Ian Gardner, Stuart Mills and Finlay who has three pages of b/w photographs (4 images) taken by Stuart Mills. Slight grubbiness along outer spine else VG. Scarce Catalogue.

The post METAPHOR AND MOTIF. 1972. appeared first on Unoriginal Sins.]]> A SERIES OF FIVE CHARRED, BLACKENED LUMPS SERVED AT “MIXED GRILL” BY THE HIGH FORCE HOTEL, UPPER TEASDALE, COUNTY DURHAM. 1977. JARGON SOCIETY CARD NO. 5. https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/product/a-series-of-five-charred-blackened-lumps-served-at-mixed-grill-by-the-high-force-hotel-upper-teasdale-county-durham-1977-jargon-society-card-no-5/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-series-of-five-charred-blackened-lumps-served-at-mixed-grill-by-the-high-force-hotel-upper-teasdale-county-durham-1977-jargon-society-card-no-5 Tue, 04 Feb 2020 09:37:57 +0000 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=11495 17 X 13.5CM, 2pp artist's postcard with a drawing of a terrible meal on the front - essentially a poet-artist's revenge on the chef. The fifth card in the Jargon Society's series. VG.

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