D.C Spaulding - Postcard

D.C. Spaulding sent this from Lomita CA.

Archer/Quinnell - Postcard

Peter and Magda sent this colour photocopied postcard in 1994.

Eric Finlay/A.1. - Colour Photocopy

Eric made this from a photo of a still he took from the television showing a Tony Hancock film "The Rebel", also an envelope from the A.1.Waste paper Co. Ltd. 1990.

Keith Bates - Postcard

Collaged card made by Keith and his daughter Anna in 1994. Sent from Manchester.

Hazel Jones/A.1. - Envelope

A back and forth envelope from Hazel and me when we were courting back in the 80's.

John Evans - Photocopy/rubber stamp

From John in NYC in 1985.

Klaus Rupp - Artistamps

Sheet of artistamps sent by Klaus in 1994 from Germany.

Les Matons - Postcard

Card in the shape of a 45 record in its sleeve (record can be pulled out ) from France. 1995,

Michael Lumb - Postcard

Michael sent this in 1994 from Ipswich. Collaged one side and the reverse reads "Can't believe I actually sold work from my "Dark PiecesFor The Wall" ! It's given me a new boost but the PhD is in the way! Could you please let me have the address if Lightworks! All the best - gosh it's wet and miserable! Michael"

Steve random - Postcard

Steve sent this in 1983 when I lived in Limehouse in East London. On the reverse is a view of a seascape with shaking hands floating above the waves - a bridge of flowers and the words "Hands Across The Sea",

Bric - A - Brac - assembling 'zine

Issue No. 13 of an assembling 'zine I compiled for 20 issues and passed the editorship onto others including Joe Decie and Patricia Collins.1990's. Participants in this issue were - G.D. & Theo. Breuer,Pierre Bailly,Stephen Perkins,Fabio Sassi,David Dellafiore,Patricia Collins and Lancilotto Bellini.

John Held Jnr./A.1. - postcard

A postcard request for a mail art show organised by John Held Jnr. in 1995 requesting Artist's Postage Stamps for a show in Dallas Texas. Four collaged stamps of mine were used for the front.

Robin Crozier/TAM

A Memo(random) page from Robin Crozier's long running project to TAM (Ruud Janssen) bcak in 1997.

Rubberstampmadness

This was a monthly periodical that is mainly about rubber stamps in the USA but also features articles about mail art and other alternative art forms. I short piece and picture about George Steed (H.Q. Slugnet) a correspondent at the time who visited us in London whilst he was on vacation in the 90's sometime.

Rudi Rubberoid - Postcard

Rudi sent this a few years back when we still lived in London. An advert for a new book called "The Book Of Zines". Rudi has drawn and coloured in outlines of his hands on the address side.

Critical Mass - Poster/Documentation

Documentation in form of poster with address list on the reverse. Exhibition organised by Leslie Caldera, Skooter and L.A. Dada for Elaine Parks. Shown in Los Angeles CA in 2010. Look for Playland. Critical Mass on YouTube.

Eric Finlay - Photo/card

Eric sent this home-made card from his West London garden. 1988.

Flea Art - Stickers/Postcard

Flea Art sent this book of rubber stamped stickers and written card back in 1994. Flea lived in London.

Dave Zack - Photo copy/writing

A page from one of Dave's Correspondence Novels from the mid 80's. Copies sent to Snowwhite Jung, Michael Leigh, Hazel Jones and E. Rische.

Robin Crozier/Pascal Lenoir - Memo (ry)

Pascal sent this page back to Robin Crozier's memory project in 1988 from Andeville in France.

Robin Crozier/Belin Czechowicz - Memo (ry)

Belin sent this Memeory sheet back to Robin Crozier's project in 1990 from Warsaw in Poland.

Robin Crozier/John Evans - Memo (ry)

Memory sheet project that Robin Crozier sent out over many years. This one to John Evans the New York collagist and mail artist in 1983.

Kobb Laboratories - Newsletter

Another fascinating issue of Lab Findings produced by Dr. Bill at Kobb Laboratories in FLA USA. The usual mail art, book and tacky video reviews .

Hal Studholme - Postcard

Hal sent this from Chapel Hill NC, USA recently . On the reverse it reads "Greetings from North Carolina, cheers Hal".

Cracker Jack Kid - Postcard

Postcard made from papier mache - a project involving sending a plaster cast of your belly button. Cracker Jack then made it into a postcard and sent it back complete with navel fluff. Mid 1980's. He has written - "Party at J.P. Jacob's place in NYC this week and will be visiting? many navels."

More about Crackerjack HERE.

Vortice Argentina - Envelope/Posters/ 'Zines etc.

Bumper package from Vortice Argentina from around 1998. Mail art 'zines and posters, flyers, postcard etc. with contributions by Robin Crozier, Joe Decie, Alan Turner, Arto Posto, Sticker Dude etc.

Find them HERE.

PLG - Postcard

Postcard dated 03-03-12 from PLG in Germany to Hazel. On the reverse is written - "Went thru the workshops oven & now returns....(partly)"

Hazel Jones/ A.1. - Collaged Flyers

Open publication - Free publishing - More collage

Old collaged flyers turned into ebook at Issuu. We did about three of these at the time- usually when we were in Walsall , at Hazel's parents when we were first "courting". A shared sense of the absurd is very useful and a love of mail art ofcourse, which was very strong at the time. We photo copied these and with added rubber stamps and writing they were duly dispatched into the Mailstrom.

Erni Bar - Postcard

Postcard via Grigori Antonin today.

Grigori Antonin - Envelope/Flyer

Grigori in Minneapolis sent this flyer and a Erni Bar postcard today.

Rudi Rubberoid - Envelope/Enclosures

Rudi Rubberoid (John Calvert Palmer) 1927 - 2012


Letter with image from A.1. Waste paper Co. that has been copied and coloured in by Rudi. 1994.

Rudi Rubberoid - Envelope/Enclosures

Rudi Rubberoid (John Calvert Palmer) 1927 - 2012

John Calvert Palmer ( Rudi Rubberoid et al ) 1927 - 2012

Sad news of Rudi's passing. He will be greatly missed by all who were lucky enough to know him or to get his wonderful decorated envelopes and enclosures. His rubber stamp 'zines like Nomo The Zine and others were always a treat to take part in and to recieve. A most generous correspondent who always filled his envelopes with all manner of stickers, stamps and gew-gaws. His letters were fun too. When I first got in touch I imagined a much younger man and was shocked to find out that he was well over 50 at the time.

Here's an interview he did with Ruud Janssen HERE.

Roger Radio/Jilly Jargon/ A.1. - Collaborative Booklet

Open publication - Free publishing - More collage

PLG - Postcard

From PLG in Germany to Hazel. On the reverse it reads "Hi & Hi-er, What is an 18 + 9 key good for? Greetings to them 2 other metal workers. Don't rust in, keep busy...."

Phil Mead - Envelope/Flyer

Phil sent this flyer advertising his show of paintings in Somerset.

Michael Scott - Remembered

Open publication - Free publishing - More 11th hour

One of the greatest mail artists ever who sadly died over twenty years ago. We were lucky enough to exchange mail with him for a few year during the 80's.

A Classic Pair/A.1.Waste - 'zine/booklet

Open publication - Free publishing - More collage

A collaborative booklet from the 90's made by me and A Classic Pair.

Susanna Lakner = Assembling Book/Postcard/Artists Book

Susanna's assembling book/zine is the 22nd of one called "22" so a fine number to reach and we hope for many more! Also included in this bumper package - a limited edition book by Susanna by Tonerworks and a postcard. You can reach Susanna at www.susannia.de and planetsusannia.blogspot.com

20 Years In The Mail

Open publication - Free publishing - More collage

Small 20 page publication from 2000. Originally from Weirdorama show that Hazel Jones and I did at walsall Art Gallery in 1995 and amended for Postcard Exchange project and 2000 mail art distribution ( with new cover ).

Peace In The World Or The World In Pieces 1984

Open publication - Free publishing - More 1984

I have been having fun trying to figure out how to transfer old 'zines and catalogues to Issuu - a site for publishing online documents of all kinds. The pdf files give me a lot of trouble - also working with Word which refuses to do anything I want it to! How do I get rid of those big borders round the edges of pages for a start? Ill figure it out eventually I expect after tearing my hair out and ranting at the PC screen for hours!

I proposed the idea of a mini mail art show on an 8 foot long pinboard for the Whitechapel Open back in 1984 and to my amazement I was accepted and the board with help from my old chum Dick Turpin was duly installed in the warehouse the Whitechapel was using that year to show the work as the main gallery was closed for some reason. I didn't have a grant of any kind to had to bare the expense of materials and postage myself which wasn't easy on the dole!
The invites sent out I waited for all the mail on the theme of war and peace (or 1984 ) to come rolling in - which it did and during the exhibition , which was about a month long, I religiously took the daily mail along to the exhibition space to pin the participants work up onto the board. You can read inside the catalogue just how many and from which countries etc.

Dick's cousin or Uncle , I forget which, kindly donated the catalogue, which was litho printed in the East End of London or Barking? Anyway, totally over ambitious and a big headache at the time but I look back with fond memories of putting it all together and as I leaf through this slim volume I wonder what happened to all these people I used to correspond with?

Art Nahpro - Envelope/Enclosures

Art (Paul Jackson ) sent this in 1985. His daughter Sara sent a small scribbled letter too.

Jose Vd Broucke - Photocopies

Jose sent these from Belgium in 1996.

Phil Mead - Postcard

Phil sent this collaged card from Hassocks in 2004.

Tetsuo Hayashi - Envelope

Tetsuo sent this in 1988. Contains piece of cloth and small etching of child's head.

Allan Revich - Stickers

Allan sent these stickers in 2008 for my Wheelie Bin Gallery.

D.C. Spaulding - Postcard

D.C. in Lomita CA. U.S.A. who has been "moving art for 34 years" sent this the other day. The reverse reads " The accumulation of mail art is a problem encountered by all correspondence artists. While many archive the mail art they receive, others pass it on, and some throw it away. I hate to throw anything away and my mail art fills my studio until it is moved into the garage."