Nicholas Sloan - Unoriginal Sins

EIN PROJEKT FUR DAS BANKHAUS. SCHRODER MUNCHMEYER HENGST & CO. 1995.

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A PROPOSAL FOR TOUT QUARRY PORTLAND, DORSET. 1992.

paul robertson — Thu, 15 Oct 1992 15:56:26 +0000

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PROPOSAL FOR A KUNSTHALLE. 1993.

paul robertson — Mon, 15 Jun 1992 16:08:14 +0000

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TALISMANS AND SIGNIFIERS. 1984.

paul robertson — Fri, 10 Aug 1984 08:49:27 +0000

Edinburgh: Graeme Murray Gallery, 1984

18 x 12cm, 1pp. The announcement card for a show of mostly small sculptural works and editions. The drawings of such works shown by and Nicholas Sloan. VG+.

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UNTITLED (A COLUMN A DAY). 1983.

paul robertson — Mon, 02 May 1983 09:40:38 +0000

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1983
20.5 x 10.4cm, 4pp (folding from the top). A cut-out drawing by Nicholas Sloan of a section of a tree trunk with an arrow piercing the wood allowing a three-dimensional paper sculpture to be made. The final image reminds one of Saint Sebastian martyred because of his supposed defence of early Christians. The attacks on Finlay at this time probably made him feel like a martyr but this image could also be read as a symbol of the garden of Little Spartas as being under attack. The title of the card is not included and the title here we have taken from Murray's catalogue raisonne although there is no reason to be sure it is correct. VG+.

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ELAVAZIONE DEL TEMPIO DI GIARDINO A PICCOLA SPARTA CON IMPTOVIMENTI NUOVI. 1983.

paul robertson — Sat, 30 Apr 1983 11:28:33 +0000

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1983
15.4 x 16.2cm, 1pp artist card with a drawing of the Temple of Apollo which was the disputed building in the dispute with Strathclyde Region. The facade has the carved text: "TO APOLLO/HIS MUSIC/HIS MISSILES/HIS MUSES". The drawing is by Nicholas Sloan. Murray renames this card "Temple of Apollo Facade" but the title should really be in Italian as per the legend on the card.VG+.

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THE PRESENT ORDER IS THE DISORDER OF THE FUTURE. 1983.

paul robertson — Sun, 06 Mar 1983 15:46:56 +0000

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1983

18.4 × 20.3cm, 1pp, black and red on white card. The quotation from Saint-Just is presented as if they had been carved in separate stones and there is an instruction "Cut around outlines. Arrange words in order." - reflecting the way that the quotation suggests change is inevitable and that causality requires some degree of chaos. The drawing is by Nicholas Sloan.
This work is also found at Little Sparta as one of the largest of the installations to be found there - with the text actually carved into large stones on moorland. VG+.

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INTER ARTES ET NATURAM. IN MW MAGAZINE, ISSUE 3. JANUARY 1983.

paul robertson — Mon, 24 Jan 1983 16:52:24 +0000

Noordwijk: MW Press 28, January 1983

38 x 28cm, 20pp. Artist's journal in the form of a tabloid newspaper which here has an 8pp contribution by Finlay in Nicolas Sloan's facsimile handwriting. Also has "an illustrated history of the Little Sparta Wars" along with a "diary" and reproductions of two letters. The paper is fragile due to being very cheap and is unavoidable browned. Folded for storage. Very scarce.

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CONCILIUM ARTIUM DELENDUM EST. c. 1982.

paul robertson — Mon, 30 Aug 1982 07:43:03 +0000

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d. (c. 1982)

30.5 × 43.2m, red on white offset lithograph. This is one of four which carry ant-Arts Council messages in Latin. This poster print has " CONCILIUM ARTIUM DELENDUM EST" which roughly translates into "The Arts Council Must be Utterly Destroyed" although there are some liberties taken in the language by Finlay.
Printed as part of Finlay's campaign against the muribund Scottish Arts Council and Strathclyde Region over a Rates dispute, these lithographs were fly-posted on the Scottish National Gallery, the Scottish Arts Council building and other places in Edinburgh by supporters of Finlay (called the Saint-Just Vigilantes).
Apparently ‘The Arts Council Must be Utterly Destroyed’ is derived from a phrase Cato would add to the end of every speech as a reference to his hatred of Carthage.
This lithograph is folded but all copies are rare as many were used as campaign posters on the buildings as described above. Apparently the typography was by Nicholas Sloan.

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ANGELIQUE ET MEDOR. 1981.

paul robertson — Tue, 23 Jun 1981 20:23:23 +0000

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1981

22.8 x 16.5cm, two colour lithograph in printed folder. Design and drawing by Nicholas Sloan.

Angelica and Medoro are two characters from the 16th-century Italian epic Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto. Angelica was an Asian princess at the court of Charlemagne who fell in love with the Saracen knight Medoro, and eloped with him to China.

Angelica had a habit of carving the lovers' names onto trees which the print here reflects - and as the folder text explains, Finlay used their French names so that the accents on the words would reflect the marking on the tree bark. Additionally the image resembles an ex libris or bookmark.

One of 300 printed. VG in like folder.

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