Gary Hincks - Unoriginal Sins

BOATSHELF. 2025. CELEBRATION OF FINLAY’S 100TH ANNIVERSARY.

paul robertson — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 09:03:03 +0000

Glasgow: Wax 66/CDLA, 2025
10.5 x 15cm, 2pp postcard reproducing one of Fiinlay's artist postcards of the same name (Boatshelf with a drawing by Gary Hincks) as a celebration of Finlay's anniversary of his birth reissued by David Bellingham. VG+.

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THE LITTLE SPARTA TRUST. C. 2009.

paul robertson — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:24:23 +0000

Little Sparta: Little Sparta Trust, n.d. (c. 2009)

23.5 x 18cm, 6pp (single folded card). Promotional leaflet for the Little Sparta trust given to visitors after Finlay's death. Colour images of the garden and grounds an a short text about the Trust. There is also a drawing of Little Sparta by Gary Hincks. VG+.

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BOY IN A FIELD. 2001.

paul robertson — Fri, 27 Jul 2001 16:21:27 +0000

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 2001
9.4 x 12cm folded, 4pp artist's postcard with a drawing by Gary Hincks after a work by Walter Langley on the front and a poem by Finlay internally:

BOY IN A FIELD

He sprawls

on the grass

a boat

in his hand,

his big flung-down

felt hat

another.

VG+.

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BARGES. 2001.

paul robertson — Sat, 14 Apr 2001 11:12:04 +0000

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 2001

10.8 x 7.5cm, 16pp plus card covers and russet red/brown dust jacket with printed boat. Artist's book with six visual poems/amusing short texts by Finlay and drawings of barges by Gary Hincks.
Such as:

HOPELESS

Like looking for
a needle in
a stackie.

A stackie is a slang name for a working barge that usually carried cargo stacked up on its deck. Finlay has perverted for a joke the well known saying "Looking for a needle in a haystack." VG+.

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THE OTHER WAY TO EDINBURGH. 2000.

paul robertson — Tue, 16 May 2000 10:32:37 +0000

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 2000

8 x 17.9cm, 4pp artist's card with a landscape drawing by Gary Hincks. Internally there is a poem by Finlay:

THE OTHER WAY TO EDINBURGH

(Farmsteads, streams,

serious woods),

the rainstorm's portcullis

closes the view.

One of a number of such cards with detailed illustrations of poems, in the same dramatic style, by Hincks all published in the same year. Finlay's reference to the rainstorm's portcullis is the raging rain coming down in sheets that look like vertical lines on the horizon. VG+.

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SP. NET MARKERS OF THE DISCIPLES. 1999. PRIVATE CHRISTMAS GIFT.

paul robertson — Wed, 15 Dec 1999 19:20:02 +0000

. Last page with printed text: “Net Markers of the Disciples“:

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HENRY VAUGHAN. 1999.

paul robertson — Fri, 02 Jul 1999 20:58:37 +0000

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1999

14.4 x 10cm, 2pp, black on white artist's card. The drawing by Gary Hincks is of a memorial "grave" stone for Henry Vaughan which can be found in the Little Sparta garden. There is a Pilcrow (¶) at the top of the marker which Finlay explains the poet used in place of a title when certain poems were to be regarded as elegies. Clearly this visual poem is also an elegy for Vaughan.VG+.

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A LAST WORD: RUDDER. 1999.

paul robertson — Sat, 02 Jan 1999 10:06:17 +0000

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1999

12.5 x 9cm, 4pp card printed red on white. A line art drawing of rudder by Gary Hincks has the text: "A last word: Rudder" on the steering handle.
A rudder is, of course, the last element of a boat and, in terms of being the part that causes the direction of the vessel, also has 'the last word". VG+.

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RUDDER. 1998.

paul robertson — Sun, 18 Oct 1998 06:48:17 +0000

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1998

22.5 x 12.4cm, 2pp artist postcard with an abstract painting by Gary Hincks of a rudder with the pintles very apparent- the outer shape of the rudder shown in dashed lines. The wooden strappings (which add strength to the structure) are coloured and more apparent. Those strappings not only guide the wood on the rudder (in themselves causing directionality like the rudder) but also a maze like image where any path is guided by the blue bars. A visual self-reference. VG+.

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A RUSTED FLOWER. 1998.

paul robertson — Sun, 06 Sep 1998 20:04:21 +0000

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1998

9 x 15.2cm, 4pp (assymetric fold) artist's card printed orange black on white with a drawing of a "rusty corvettes at sea by Gary Hincks. This was one of the flower class battleships that were deployed in the second world war and hence Finlay notes it as a "rusted flower" - a mignonette which are often red in wet October. VG+.

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BATTLE OF THE FLOWERS. 1998.

paul robertson — Tue, 01 Sep 1998 19:42:41 +0000

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1998

8 x 10cm, 4pp artist's card printed black on grey with a drawing of a battleship by Gary Hincks
Inside the card Finlay notes the participants of the "Battle of the Flowers" in 1941/1942 - Loosestrife, Larkspur, Balm.
There were 294 "Flower-class" corvettes engaged in the second world war all of which had names of flowers, the first two here both were involved in the Battle of the Atlantic and the third boar was never actually commissioned - Finlay has this name noted as "(cancelled)". Finlay returned time and time again to this naming convention for the battleships in cards and prints because of its use of the names of a wide number of blooms. VG+.

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CAMOUFLAGED FLOWERS. 1998.

paul robertson — Fri, 14 Aug 1998 09:15:41 +0000

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