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FROM THE SERIES LITTLE SPARTA BY ROBIN GILLANDERS. LITTLE SPARTA FUNDRAISING EDITION.

paul robertson — Wed, 02 May 2018 12:51:24 +0000

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LITTLE SPARTA: PORTRAIT OF A GARDEN. 2015.

paul robertson — Sat, 18 Jul 2015 16:05:18 +0000

Edinburgh: Scottish National Portrait Gallery, 2015

25./4 x 23.3cm, 64pp plus boards. First edition of this photobook by Finlay collaborator Gillanders with 31 black and white photographs documenting Little Sparta, in Scotland, accompanied by an essay by Gillanders and an Aafterword by Alec Finlay. VG+.

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IAN’S FLEET. 2012. ONE OF 50 SIGNED & NUMBERED COPIES WITH ORIGINAL B/W PHOTOGRAPH.

paul robertson — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 16:17:26 +0000

Eindhoven Peter Foolen Editions, 2012

20 x 245.5cm, unpaginated, Original card covers, Photographic record of one afternoon at Little Sparta where Finlay sailed his toy boats on the Loch. Black and white photographs throughout. This is one of 50 numbered copies with a signed and editioned b/w photograph of the boats appended aside from the edition of 300 copies. VG+ in unopened plastic wrapping.

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PROMOTIONAL CARD FOR IAN’S FLEET. 2011.

paul robertson — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 12:57:39 +0000

Eindhoven: Peter Foolen Editions, 2012
10.5 x 15cm, 2pp. B/w postcard with a b/w photograph by Robin Gillanders of one of Finlay's toy boats on the Loch Echen at Little Sparta. Promotional card for the book "Ian's Fleet". VG+

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GODS OF THE EARTH/GODS OF THE SEA. 2006.

paul robertson — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 12:15:44 +0000

Orkney: Piers Arts Centre, n.d. (2006)
15.4 x 11.6cm, 2pp. B/w postcard with the title sculpture reproduced on the front photographed by Robin Gillanders. Commercial art postcard. VG+

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WHATS ON? AUTUMN 2005.

paul robertson — Fri, 23 Sep 2005 13:06:03 +0000

Edinburgh: Museums of Scotland, 2005

21 x 15cm, 32pp self cover. Announcement brochure for the Festival visual art exhibitions which include "The Philosopher's Garden" with photographs by Robin Gillanders. While this was not a Finlay exhibition per se it was, de facto, the last exhibition displaying Ian's work and Little Sparta before his death. One b/w portrait of Ian in his conservatory by Gillanders is reproduced. VG+.

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THE PHILOSOPHER’S GARDEN. 2004.

paul robertson — Thu, 23 Sep 2004 08:52:46 +0000

Edinburgh: National Galleries of Scotland, 2004

21 x 24.3cm, 2pp announcement card for an exhibition by Robin GIllanders of his photographs of Little Sparta and The Ermenonville Gardens (which were inspired by the writings of Jean Jacques Rousseau). One b/w image of a sculptural work at Little Sparta, VG+.

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THE PHILOSOPHER’S GARDEN. 2004. SIGNED BY ROBIN GILLANDERS.

paul robertson — Mon, 20 Sep 2004 08:30:51 +0000

Edinburgh: National Galleries of Scotland, 2004

24 x 18cm, 64pp and full black cloth boards with printed titles to spine and upper board. Exhibition about The Ermenonville Gardens, which were inspired by the writings of Jean Jacques Rousseau. Preface by Jean-Claude Curtil with an introduction by Peter France. Text in English and French. The back of the book has 6pp of photographs of Little Sparta by Gillanders and short Finlay texts from Detached Sentences on Gardening. VG+.

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PRINTED COPIES OF PHOTOGRAPHIC “CONTACT” SHEETS OF LITTLE SPARTA. c. 2003

paul robertson — Wed, 20 Aug 2003 08:45:54 +0000

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PHOTOGRAPHS FOR SICK KIDS. 2001.

paul robertson — Mon, 14 May 2001 13:21:17 +0000

Edinburgh: Sick Kids Hospital, 2001

30 x 21cm, 32pp plus covers. The secret auction catalogue to raise funds for the hospital - the works were unlabelled but most were easily identified. The Robin Gillanders print from Little Sparta of the Wheelbarrow sculpture that is in this collection was purchased from this auction (as was a photograph of John Byrne). VG+.

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HUFF LANE. CHRISTMAS 2000.

paul robertson — Fri, 15 Dec 2000 21:11:31 +0000

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 2000

15.2 x 21.4cm, 48pp plus red patterned boards. Artist's book with eighteen b/w photographs by Robin Gillanders ofone of the small sections of Little Spartas which Finaly denoted as Huff Lane - in part a joke about being somewhere to go and sit when feeling aggrieved ("In the huff" as Scots say.

Along the lane are five low benches inscribed with epigrams such as:

"A lane cannot be measured in metres"

This line may be related to another bench:

"In a lane one will not encounter Apollo but one may come upon Pan."

The former is a punny musical reference (Pan after all plays the pipes) and a lane is usually shadowed from the sun but also it has music from nature:

"A song of a skylark may return us to Shelley, a lane may lead us back to Clare."

Both Shelley and Clare are romantic poets.

GIllander's photographs are also of flowers found during the (very) short walk.

One of 300 such books published for Christmas 2000. VG+. Finlay gives Pia Simig a credit for being part of the conceptual idea.

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TEXTBOOK. 1999.

paul robertson — Wed, 08 Sep 1999 18:33:58 +0000

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1999
17.7 x 14.7cm, 20pp plus boards with tipped on title label. Internally there are four b/w photographs of stone walls and a wooden wall in close up - each with a name of a type of boat below. The boat name shows an association with the construction of each wall. VG+.

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