Ian Gardner - Unoriginal Sins

A WALLED GARDEN. 2019. ONE OF 500 NUMBERED COPIES.

paul robertson — Fri, 19 Apr 2019 19:40:24 +0000

Tipperary/Saint Paulinus: Coracle & Saint Paulinus, 2019
18 x 24cm, 186pp and hand boards with applied colour illustration label. A posthumous artist's book explaining "the history of the Spandau Garden in the time of the architect Albert Speer". Speer was, of course, a Nazi who was jailed at the Nuremburg trials rather than condemned to death like his fascist friends and colleagues.
The book is filled with quotations taken from Finlay's letters to Speer and watercolours of the prizon garden by Ian Gardener. It is a lovely publication if more than a little contentious. One of 500 numbered copies. VG+.

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UNPAINTED LANDSCAPES. 1987.

paul robertson — Thu, 09 Apr 1987 09:06:02 +0000

London: Victoria Miro, n.d. (1987)

12 x 15cm, 4pp. Announcement card for a group show with works by Lothar Baumgarten, Marie Bourget, Thomas Joshua Cooper, Chris Drury, Andy Goldsworthy, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Hamish Fulton, Wolfgang Laib, Nikolaus Lang, Bernard Lassus, Richard Long, Martin Rogers, David Tremlett, and Herman de Vries. The front of the card is a model tank by Finlay and Ian Gardner "Panzer V (Penterai Semi- Reducta) from 1979. VG+.

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THE LITTLE SPARTAN WAR. 2 PROPAGANDA CARDS. TWO PROSPECTS, TEMPLE OF APOLLO. 1983.

paul robertson — Fri, 06 May 1983 09:29:56 +0000

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FROM “35 ONE WORD POEMS: DRIP-DRY”. 1982.

paul robertson — Sat, 24 Jul 1982 21:23:41 +0000

Carlisle: Carlisle Museum & Art Gallery, 1982

14.7 x 10.5cm, 2pp card. One of five cards released during the exhibition ‘Presences of Nature’ - each with a painting by Ian Gardner. Here the illustration shows trees and a river with rain falling. Finlay's one word poem for this image and the main title of Drip-Dry is May. A very British obssesion with the weather. VG+.

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FROM “35 ONE WORD POEMS: MOORLAND”. 1982.

paul robertson — Sat, 24 Jul 1982 21:20:58 +0000

Carlisle: Carlisle Museum & Art Gallery, 1982

14.7 x 10.5cm, 2pp card. One of five cards released during the exhibition ‘Presences of Nature’ - each with a painting by Ian Gardner. Here the illustration shows mountains and a forest and moors. Finlay's one word poem for this image of moorland is marquetry and the look of the landscape does appear to be made up of veneers. VG+.

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FROM “35 ONE WORD POEMS: DEEP-V-HULL-GEESE”. 1982.

paul robertson — Sat, 24 Jul 1982 19:34:09 +0000

Carlisle: Carlisle Museum & Art Gallery, 1982

14.7 x 10.5cm, 2pp card. One of five cards released during the exhibition ‘Presences of Nature’ - each with a painting by Ian Gardner. Here the illustration shows geese flying over a river estuary. The geese however are notes which part with one half ascending, the other descending. Finlay's one word poem for this image is Deep-V-Hull-Geese which creates a visual correspondence with a ship easily pushing waves aside because of its deep V hull. VG+.

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FROM “35 ONE WORD POEMS: OSIRIS”. 1982.

paul robertson — Tue, 25 May 1982 19:30:41 +0000

Carlisle: Carlisle Museum & Art Gallery, 1982

14.7 x 10.5cm, 2pp card. One of five cards released during the exhibition ‘Presences of Nature’ - each with a painting by Ian Gardner. Here the illustration shows a ticket in close-up. Finlay's one word poem for this image is "Osiris" with beneath it the word "osiers'. The similarity in the words appeals to the poet and the Egyptian god Osiris was the god of agriculture and by extension fertile growth. Osiers is a type of willow that grows in the wet. VG+.

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FROM “35 ONE WORD POEMS: CURFEW”. 1982.

paul robertson — Tue, 25 May 1982 19:24:15 +0000

Carlisle: Carlisle Museum & Art Gallery, 1982

14.7 x 10.5cm, 2pp card. One of five cards released during the exhibition ‘Presences of Nature’ - each with a painting by Ian Gardner. Here the illustration shows a country landscape at night. Finlay's one word poem for this image is "Curfew" with beneath it the word "curlew'. The similarity in the words appeals to the poet as well as the link between hearing the sound of a curlew (a wading bird) and nightfall about to come down. VG+.

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PENNY BROWNS. 1982.

paul robertson — Sat, 24 Apr 1982 10:17:30 +0000

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1982

30.2 x 53cm, brown and black on white offset lithograph. A painting buy Ian Gadner of a line of boats - all "penny browns". Penny Brown stamps were a mid 19th century postal stamp and one presumes there is a visual correspondence between this delightful maritime scene and the idea of individual items moving to a destination. VG.

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THE ILLUSTRATED ESOTERIC DICTIONARY. 1982

paul robertson — Tue, 30 Mar 1982 15:11:09 +0000

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1982

24x 18cm, folded card with two tipped on images - the first a painting by Ian Gardner of The Temple of Fame, Studley Royal - a wooden "temple" built for William Aislabie in 1770 amongst woodlands and a extract in appears to be a facsimile of dictionary definitions but in fact gathered from various sources by Finlay for the words Dove, East, Fame, Gnomon and Horizon. VG.

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LITTLE SERMONS SERIES (VOLUME MAKE BEAUTY). 1982.

paul robertson — Sat, 27 Feb 1982 15:58:48 +0000

Dunsyre, : Wild Hawthorn Press, (1982)

7.5 x 9.5cm, 12pp plus card wrappers and printed white dust jacket.

Artist's book with a drawing of a circle, a classical column and a cube by Ian Gardner. The text is "Volume makes beauty/ and the most beautiful forms" with the latter on the page with the drawings "are the sphere, the cylinder, the cube." a quote from Vitulio from the 12th century. (One is reminded of Paul Cezanne's similar statement).

Finlay has replaced the cylinder with a classical column - changing Vitulio's statement into a promotion of neo-classicism. VG+

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LITTLE SERMON SERIES. ORGY OF THE CHERRIES. 1982.

paul robertson — Mon, 15 Feb 1982 15:44:31 +0000

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