Ian Hamilton | Finlay Glasgow Beasts, an a Burd

Ian Hamilton Finlay
Glasgow Beasts, an a Burd
London, UK : Fulcrum Press, 1965.
32 pp. 17 x 11.8 cm, softcover
Edition size unknown


An early booklet by Ian Hamilton Finlay, with papercuts by John Picking and Pete McGinn.

Ian Hamilton Finlay | 1794/1994

Ian Hamilton Finlay
1794/1994
[no publisher listed], 1994
6 cm diameter
Edition size unknown

A plastic pin/button/badge.

Ian Hamilton Finlay Weekend

A week before the closing of their Ian Hamilton Finlay exhibition (20 July – 8 September 201),
Arnolfini is hosting an "Ian Hamilton Finlay Weekend".  Friday August 30th  and Saturday the 31st will feature talks, film screenings, performances and readings around the work of Ian Hamilton Finlay.

The three model boats on view in the exhibition (see above) will be auctioned off in support of the estate of Ian Hamilton Finlay and to help maintain Finlay’s garden Little Sparta in Stonypath, Scotland. George Ferguson, the Mayor of Bristol, will serve as auctioneer. The garden has been called Finlay's "greatest work of art". For more information, visit their site, here.

Full schedule below:


Friday 30 August

6pm Graham Rich: A Visual Correspondence, talk

6.45pm Beatrice Gibson: The Tiger's Mind (2013), film screening and in conversation

7.30pm Benefit Auction to support Little Sparta

8.30pm Amor de Dias, concert

10pm Christian Flamm, DJ set

Saturday 31 August

12 noon Stephen Bann, film screening and talk

1.30pm Sue Tompkins: My Dataday, audio work

2pm Harry Gilonis Exhibition tour to St George's

3.30pm Ian Hamilton Finlay: Carrier Strike! (1977), projection

4pm OEI Magazine, talk

5pm KRIWET: Apollovision (1969), Campaign (1972–73), TV-Take (1968), Teletext (1967), film screening

6pm Karl Holmqvist: A is for A=R=A=K=A=W=A (2012), film screening

7pm Kasia Fudakowski: Where is your alibi, Mr. Motorway?, performance

7.30pm Ends

Benefit Auction

Friday 30 August, 7.30pm, free


For more information, visit the gallery site, here.

IAN HAMILTON FINLAY

A new exhibition of works by Ian Hamilton Finlay opens Saturday at Arnolfini in Bristol this Saturday. The press release calls Finlay a poet, artist and sculpture but "above all a publisher" and notes that the show will focus "on his printed projects", in particular the Wild Hawthorn Press, which he founded in 1961. Alongside Finlay's prints, posters, magazines and other publications, the exhibition will present a series of interventions by contemporary artists Jason Dodge, Christian Flamm, Beatrice Gibson and Will Holder.

The eponymously titled show runs from July 20th to September 8th, 2013.

For more information, visit the gallery site, here.

The Openings Press

The Openings Press, initiated by Dom Sylvester Houedard and John Furnival in 1964, and based out of Gloucestershire, was a very small press dedicated to publishing concrete poetry. As well as self-published projects, the Press also published the work of Ian Hamilton Finlay, Tom Phillips, bpNichol, Stephen Hoare, Julien Blaine, Eugen Gomringer and several others.

The above prospectus provides a statement of intent:

"We aim to produce a series that is a complete integration of graphics and texts, ie. not an illustrated poem or a captioned drawing."

Aspen #7 - The British Issue

Mario Amaya was an American art critic and museum director. He was the chief curator of the Art Gallery of Ontario from 1969 to 1972. A year prior, he was in Andy Warhol's office when Valerie Solanas shot Warhol. He was grazed by two bullets and briefly hospitalized.

Amaya, who died in 1986, is best remembered as the founding editor of London’s Art and Artists Magazine, which he began in 1966. In 1970 he edited the 7th issue of Aspen magazine, the British Issue. Designed by John Kosh, the box (which shipped flat) contained works by Peter Blake, Ossie Clarke, Ian Hamilton Finlay, David Hockey, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Eduardo Paolozzi, and others. The cover design was by Richard Smith.

The flex-discs include John Tavenner's Three Songs for Surrealists (For Rene Magritte. [2 min. 9 sec.], For Max Ernst [3 min. 27 sec.], For Salvador Dali [3 min. 8 sec.]) backed with  Christopher Logue reading New Numbers and Yoko Ono's Song for John, and Ono and Lennon's No Bed for Beatle John [4 min. 44 sec.], backed with Lennon's Radio Play [7 min. 57 secs.] 

Aspen
The British Box (#7)
New York City, USA: Roaring Fork Press, 1970
10 x 9.5 x 1.25"
Hinged cardboard box containing 13 items, no advertisements.