creels and creels

Artist Ian Hamilton Finlay (Nassau, Bahamas, 1925 - 2006)

Date1994

Mediumprinted ink on card

ClassificationsPrints

Dimensions12.1 x 8.3cm

AcquisitionPresented in 2010 by Joyce Laing OBE.

LocationView by Appointment - Aberdeen Treasure Hub

Object numberABDAG017155

About MeThis work is part of an archive that belonged to Joyce Laing OBE. The artist, Ian Hamilton Finlay, was a personal friend and sent her an example of each new poem print and multiple as it was made.

creels and creels
creels and net-ropes
creels and men
net-ropes and net-ropes
men and creels and net-ropes
men and men

Cobles and cobles
cobles and men and net-ropes
cobles and net-ropes
men and cobles
men and men

Eugen Gomringer, cars and cars,
Theocritus, Idyll XXI.

http://www.ianhamiltonfinlay.com/1994.html
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The German Gomringer and Ancient Greek Theocritus mentioned on this piece were like Finlay in that they were also interested in using letter arrangements to shape poems, enhancing their meaning.

Exhibitions

Shoreline