Showing posts with label the flag club. Show all posts
Showing posts with label the flag club. Show all posts
Saturday, 27 July 2013
Alec Finlay – soapsuds & whitewash at Fourth Floor, London
The Flag 'soapsuds & whitewash' by Alec Finlay flying on the roof of
Fourth Floor
3rd & 4th Floors
4 Northington Street
London WC1N 2JG
photographs by Richard Stepney, Fourth Floor, London
Saturday, 6 July 2013
Alec Finlay – Flag at Fourth Floor, London
The Flag soapsuds & whitewash by Alec Finlay for The Flag Club 2013 will be flying this Summer in London on the roof of
Fourth Floor
3rd & 4th Floors
4 Northington Street
London WC1N 2JG
Friday, 28 June 2013
Alec Finlay – Flag | Skying – edition for The Flag Club
Alec Finlay – Flag | Skying
Edition for The Flag Club, 2013
acid free box, 34 x 26 x5 cm
containing:
soapsuds & whitewash – flag, silkscreen on white spun polyester 160 gms,
150 x 225 cm
150 x 225 cm
soapsuds & whitewash – embroidered tea towel, 52 x 67 cm
Skying – portfolio with 12 archival pigment prints on innova soft white cotton 280 gsm,
in acid-free portfolio, with title page, index list and signed and numbered colophon page, 21 x 29,7 cm
poemlabel - membership card The Flag Club 2013, stamp and ink on label, 4,8 x 9,5 cm, numbered and signed
colophon sheet, 21 x 29,7 cm, numbered and signed
Published by The Flag Club and Peter Foolen Editions in an edition of 25 copies
price € 350
The Scottish artist Alec Finlay designed this year, after Thomas A Clark in 2011 and Peter Liversidge in 2012, the new flag for The Flag Club, based in Kolham, the most Northern part of Holland. This flag was launched in Kolham on 22 June 2013. The Flag Club now very proudly presents the new edition of Alec Finlay for The Flag Club, which contains the flag, but also an embroidered tea towel with the same text as on the flag: 'soapsuds & whitewash'. This text was used by a 19th century critic to describe a painting by W.M.J. Turner, entitled Snow Storm – Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth making Signals in Shallow Water, and going by the lead. The Author was in this Storm on the Night the Ariel left Harwich (1842, now in the collection of the Tate Gallery). According the story Turner would have replied to this criticism: "soapsuds & whitewash! What would they have? I wonder what they think the sea's like? I wish they'd been it."
The once negative loaded words of this critic could nowadays be very appropriate as a poetical description of the beauty of clouds or the sea and the sky in a positive way.
Further the box contains a portfolio with a suite of 12 prints. These prints are a series of poems by Alec Finlay about forms of producing renewable energy in the landscape. The prints have poems by Alec Finlay and photographs by Alistair Peebles, Alexander Maris, Tomohiko Ogawa, Amy Todman and Peter Foolen, from landscapes in Scotland, Japan, England and The Netherlands. The Dutch photographs are showing the windmills in the landscape around Kolham, the HQ of The Flag Club.
The title of this project by Alec Finlay on renewable energy is Skying, a term used by Turner and Constable to name the practice of painting their small 'cloud-studies' (see http://skying-blog.blogspot.nl/2012/05/john-thornes.html).
These connections with the work of Turner and Constable made the work of Alec Finlay for this edition of The Flag Club also a tribute to the Dutch clouds and skies which were loved very much by Turner and Constable, inspired by our 17th century landscape painters.
Monday, 24 June 2013
Alec Finlay - Flying of the Flag, Kolham, 22 June 2013
Flying of the new Flag: Alec Finlay – soapsuds & whitewash
at Kolham, the HQ of The Flag Club, on Saturday 22 June 2013
Thursday, 20 June 2013
Monday, 13 May 2013
Peter Liversidge – Backdrop concert Low with HELLO flag
Beginning of the new backdrop by Peter Liversidge at the concert of the band Low, 30 April 2013, Barbican Centre, London, with Peter Liversidge's HELLO flag.
There will also at least 50 of these flags flying during the Edinburgh Art Festival In August this year.
image Peter Liversidge, still from the backdrop: Proposal for Low, 1 hour 42 minutes. Two channel projection, Festoon lights, Mirror Balls and Lighting, 2013
Monday, 15 April 2013
Alec Finlay – The Flag Club
After Thomas A Clark in 2011 and Peter Liversidge last year, Alec Finlay, artist, poet, writer and publisher based in Edinburgh, is the third artist who has been invited to design a new flag and edition for The Flag Club in 2013. The edition will be a box with his flag, a suite of 12 prints, and a embroided dish cloth, published by The Flag Club & Peter Foolen Editions. The edition will be presented at the launch of this flag on Midsummer Day, June 2013, in Kolham, Groningen, The Netherlands.
more info about the work of Alec Finlay see:
www.alecfinlay.com
www.alecfinlayblog.blogspot.com
www.skying-blog.blogspot.com
www.the-bee-bole.com
www.theroadnorth.co.uk
Peter Liversidge – Flag proposal for Edinburgh Art Festival
Peter Liversidge made a proposal for the Edinburgh Art Festival 2013, inviting anyone in the city with a flag pole to fly a white flag which bears the text: HELLO.
In a city which doubles in size in August, Liversidge's proposal invites Edinburgh to join in a collective and universal greeting. In the artist's own words, a "simple welcome across the roof tops, a buoyant, floating 'Hello'"
from the website of the Edinburgh Art Festval:
The 'HELLO' flag was also part of an edition by Peter Liversidge, published in an edition of 25 + V copies by The Flag Club and Peter Foolen Editions in 2012. There are still a few copies of this edition (a box with this flag, a numbered and signed polaroid photograph and publication Proposals for the Flag Club, membership card and a set of letterpress printed postcards) available from Peter Foolen Editions, see:
http://peterfoolen.blogspot.nl/2012/09/peter-liversidge-edition-hello.html
Tuesday, 5 March 2013
Peter Liversidge – Flag at Fourth Floor, London
Peter Liversidge – Hello
A flag for The Flag Club at Fourth Floor, Northington Street, London
photographs by Peter Liversidge, March 2013
Wednesday, 20 February 2013
Graham Rich – A Flag for P.F.
Graham Rich
A Flag for P.F., 2012
5 x 21 x 2 cm
found object and paint
Monday, 4 February 2013
Peter Liversidge & The Flag Club – Flag launch at Fourth Floor, London
On Thursday 31 January 2013 the flag by Peter Liversidge for The Flag Club was launched at Fourth Floor in London. The launch was celebrated with a Gin Performance by Peter Liversidge. The first 50 guests could have a Sloe Gin drink in a free limited edition glass, etched and numbered. The Flag will fly for a few months at the rooftop of Fourth Floor.
Fourth Floor
3rd & 4th Floors
4 Northington Street
London WC1N 2JG
London
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