Freedom : a celebration by artists & illustrators
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: Freedom : a celebration by artists & illustrators
Classmark: Artists' Books 289
Publisher: Quadrant Design Associates : Amnesty International
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1988
Language: English
Size and medium: 2 unnumbered leaves, 12 leaves of plates, 1 unnumbered leaf
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/779793
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991020729689305181
Description
Edition of 100 copies, signed by the artists.
"With work by Anthony Benjamin, Eileen Cooper, Greg Daville, Dirk Van Dooren, Elisabeth Frink, Maggi Hambling, Matilda Harrison, Patrick Hughes, Dovrat Ben Nahum, Hughie O'Donoghue, Therese Oulton, Gary Powell."
Portfolio, comprising twelve tipped-in original etchings, some printed in colours, on 225gsm. Zerkall paper, each with tissue guard, the full sheets bound in burnt orange cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering. Each contributor to the project gave their time, their skills and their work freely to raise funds for Amnesty International. Platemaking and etchings printed by Hope Sufferance Studios, London. The opening exhibition was at the Angela Flowers Gallery.
[Foreword] by Peter Bonnici and Jonathan Henry, dated December 1988.
Each print signed in pencil by the artist; copy no. 8/100.
Anthony Benjamin: signed and dated '88, numbered 8/100 (plate size 19.5 x 16cm, paper size 29.5 x 21cm) -- Dovrat Ben Nahum: signed and dated '88, numbered 8/100 (plate size 23.5 x 16cm, paper size 29.5 x 21cm) -- Therese Oulton: signed and numbered 8/100 (plate size 11 x 6cm, paper size 29.5 x 21cm) -- Greg Daville: signed and inscribed 'Sun', numbered 8/100 (plate size 23 x 17cm, paper size 30 x 21cm) -- Maggi Hambling: signed, inscribed 'Sunrise for Amnesty' and dated '88, numbered 8/100 (plate size 23 x 15.5cm, paper size 29.5 x 21cm) -- Dirk Van Dooren: signed and numbered 8/100 (paper size 29.5 x 21cm) -- Hughie O'Donoghue: signed and dated '88, numbered 8/100 (plate size 13.5 x 16.5cm, paper size 29.5 x 21cm) -- Eileen Cooper: signed and dated '88 (paper size 30 x 21cm) -- Gary Powell: signed and numbered 8/100 (plate size 23.5 x 17.5cm, paper size 30 x 21cm) -- Matilda Harrison: signed and dated '88, numbered 8/100 (image size 23.5 x 17.5cm, paper size 30 x 21cm) -- Patrick Hughes: signed, inscribed 'Roads to Freedom' and dated '88, numbered 8/100 (plate size 20 x 13cm, paper size 29.5 x 21cm) -- Elisabeth Frink: signed and numbered 8/100 (plate size 18 x 12.5cm, paper size 29.5 x 21cm)
Features
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Artists' Books 289: burnt orange cloth-covered boards, gilt, Zerkall paper, bookbinding was devised by Bookworks Limited.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Artists' Books 289: Gift from the collection of Richard Sykes and Penny Mason through the Contemporary Art Society, 2023. Purchased by Richard Sykes and Penny Mason from Flowers Gallery, London, 1989.
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