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Freedom : a celebration by artists & illustrators

Archive Print Item: Artists' Books 289

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Type of record: Book

Title: Freedom : a celebration by artists & illustrators

Level: Item

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)

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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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