https://unoriginalsins.co.uk AVANT-GARDES Thu, 31 Jul 2025 09:03:03 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/cropped-nTKdHdZI-1-1-32x32.png https://unoriginalsins.co.uk 32 32 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/boatshelf-2025-celebration-of-finlays-100th-anniversary/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=boatshelf-2025-celebration-of-finlays-100th-anniversary https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/boatshelf-2025-celebration-of-finlays-100th-anniversary/#respond Thu, 31 Jul 2025 09:03:03 +0000 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/?p=61280 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/boatshelf-2025-celebration-of-finlays-100th-anniversary/feed/ 0 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/les-saltimbanques-1998/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=les-saltimbanques-1998 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/les-saltimbanques-1998/#respond Fri, 03 Jul 1998 18:21:57 +0000 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/?p=19980 10.5 x 15cm, 2pp. Full colour artist postcard by Finlay's former assistant but visual poet in his own right. A photograph of one of Finlay's toy boats seen from outside the building through the window is on the front, vwrso standard postcard design. The title references "Family of Saltimbanques " painting by Pablo Picasso in 1905 - an itinerant group of actors. ]]> 10.5 x 15cm, 2pp. Full colour artist postcard by Finlay's former assistant but visual poet in his own right. A photograph of one of Finlay's toy boats seen from outside the building through the window is on the front, vwrso standard postcard design. The title references "Family of Saltimbanques " painting by Pablo Picasso in 1905 - an itinerant group of actors. ]]> https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/les-saltimbanques-1998/feed/ 0 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/cup-du-monde-world-cup-1998-postcard-collection/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cup-du-monde-world-cup-1998-postcard-collection https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/cup-du-monde-world-cup-1998-postcard-collection/#respond Wed, 10 Jun 1998 19:20:33 +0000 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/?p=22059 16.2 x 22.9cm, printed envelope content of four artists' postcards by David Bellingham, Alec Finlay, Ian Hamilton Finlay and Kevin Henderson issued on the occasion of the 1998 football world cup in France.
Ian Hamilton Finlay's card is "Relative Geography" which was a concrete poem originally published in "Tea-leaves and Fishes" from 1966. The text reads:

Britain: North Pole Equator South Pole Brazil: North Pele Equator South Pele

Pele of course was the world famous footballer who was often regarded as the Greatest Of All Time. All cards are VG+ in like envelope. The co-publisher Morning Star Press was the idea of Finlay's son Eck Finlay (now Alex FInlay).

]]> ]]> https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/cup-du-monde-world-cup-1998-postcard-collection/feed/ 0 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/anthology-1997-one-of-only-200-copies/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=anthology-1997-one-of-only-200-copies https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/anthology-1997-one-of-only-200-copies/#respond Mon, 21 Jul 1997 19:38:12 +0000 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/?p=22711 14 x 10.5cm, blue card slipcase content of a 13.5 x 10cm, 28pp plus boards. Artist's book consisting of a number of contributions by Finlay, Harry Gilonis, Jackson Mac Low, Ian Stephen, Graham Rich, Haans Waanders, Simon Cutts, Thomas A. Clark, Pavel Buchler, David Bellingham, Richard Tuttle, Zoe Irvine, Alex Finlay, Simon Patterson, and Lawrence Weiner as well as others. One of only 200 printed. VG+.

]]> ]]> https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/anthology-1997-one-of-only-200-copies/feed/ 0