Large-format tabloid newspaper, printed on glossy paper in black, with different colour inks to covers from second issue. The first issue (spelled Signalz) comprises a single sheet folded centrally to make 4pp., later issues enlarging to 12pp. (24pp. for the double issue #3/4 and the final two issues). Illustrated. Ed. Paul Keeler and David Medalla. Design by David Medalla. A complete run of the journal for the Centre for Advanced Creative Study, later the Signals Gallery, which in its first issue announced that it “will contain news items on the activities of the Centre, documentation and critical studies..... More about SIGNALS #1-11 (in 10), all published (London: Centre for Advanced Creative Study, August 1964 -...

Flyer announcing a performance of projection pieces at the Jeanetta Cochrane Theatre, London, March 1st-2nd (1967). Printed in black on white paper, recto only, with text by Mark Boyle reproduced in holograph facsimile alongside an illustration of a liquid light projection. 33x20.2cm. ‘Son et Lumiére for Bodily Fluids and Functions’, first performed in Liverpool two months earlier and the third in the series of Son et Lumière events, included projections of tears, saliva, sweat, earwax, nasal mucous, blood, gastric juices, vomit, urine and sperm extracted from Mark Boyle and his partner, Joan Hills, accompanied by live sounds from..... More about Son et Lumière for Bodily Fluids and Functions

12mo. Wrps., 90pp. + 25pp. index and appendix, along with two copies of the two-part printed programme. Texts in English, French and German. Front cover reproduces the poster designed for the event by Pierre Alechinsky. EXPRMNTL 4 played a significant role in disseminating the ideas of expanded cinema and lightshows in Europe, as well as being influential on the London Film-Makers Co-op and the London scene in general, especially David Curtis, who reported on the festival for International Times and whose film programming for the Arts Lab changed as a result of it. The catalogue’s contents include..... More about EXPRMNTL 4. Catalogue for the 4th Knokke Experimental Film Festival, held in Knokke-le-Zoute,...

(London): Fulham Gallery, nd. (1968). Colour offset poster printed on semi-gloss white paper stock. 90x57cm. Illustrated with an image from a liquid light projection. Designed by Tom Adams for The Sensual Laboratory, Mark Boyle’s light show that toured the USA with Soft Machine and Jimi Hendrix from late January through to April 1968 (copies of the poster were sold on the tour). Tiny surface loss to upper edge; minor crinkling to lower edge; o/w Near Fine. Illustrated in Boyle Family, p.123. More about The Sensual Laboratory London

London: Fulham Gallery, nd. (1968?). Printed offset litho in black on white paper stock (77.5x52cm.). Illustrated with a liquid light projection by Mark Boyle. A poetry poster designed by Tom Adams printing a poem by George MacBeth, its biomorphic imagery corresponding well with Mark Boyle’s light projections, particularly ‘Son et Lumière for Bodily Fluids and Functions’. Other poets Adams designed and published poetry posters for included Adrian Henri, Christopher Logue, Brian Patten, Ted Hughes and Edward Lucie-Smith (see items #29 and #30). Best known as an illustrator, notably of book covers for John Fowles, Agatha Christie..... More about In the Oil, Flowing Heads

Orange card, folded, as issued (21x7.5cm. folded; 21x30cm. unfolded). Prints the original Drury Lane Arts Lab logo (designer unknown, though the leaflet credits ‘graphic design’ to Christine Marsh); lists its organisers, staff and founder members (among the latter, Brian Epstein, David Frost, Paul Jones, Doris Lessing, Sir Lawrence Olivier, Nigel Samuel, John Schlesinger and John Wilcock); a small map and brief texts on the Arts Lab and its short history; lists of its main productions (The People Show, Graziella Martinez and the Sensual Laboratory, Will Spoor, Jan Quackenbush) and exhibitions to date (‘Evolving Documents’ by The Exploding Galaxy..... More about Promotional leaflet with subscriber and membership forms, nd. (c. March 1968

Colour silkscreen, “designed, cut and printed in a run of fewer than ten by Biddy Peppin” (illustrated in London’s Arts Labs [p.25] and 99 Balls Pond Road [p. 212]). 35x51.8cm. The Arts Lab’s programme, the third dedicated to Anger’s work, showed ‘Fireworks’, ‘Eaux D’Artifice’, ‘Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (Sacred Mushroom Edition)’, and ‘Scorpio Rising’. Paper thinning and small loss to upper left corner; 4cm. closed tear to upper edge; remnants of old tape and two fragments of blue paper to verso; o/w Very Good. More about A rare poster announcing a screening of films by Kenneth Anger, September 12th-14th (1968

Offset, b/w. 76x50.5cm. The poster was held up due to the objections of numerous printers, who feared an obscenity bust, and wasn’t ready in time for the screening, so the Arts Lab hurriedly produced a design by Biddy Peppin instead. When Aldridge found a printer willing to undertake the work (the Charles Christopher Press), it was too late, but his design still won him a Silver Award from the Design and Art Directors Club (and a warrant of arrest for pornography charges after it was flyposted around the West End). The edition here, generally considered to..... More about A poster designed by Alan Aldridge for a screening of ‘The Chelsea Girls’ at the Arts Lab,...

Silkscreen, printed in brown, designed and cut by John Taylor and Biddy Peppin. 53.9x42cm. Tzintzuntzan (misspelt on the poster) is the name of a pre-Columbian archaeological site in Mexico, and Taylor, a mathematician and innovative instrument maker, developed a fingering system in 1964 that allowed an Aztec ocarina to play a full chromatic octave using only four holes. Short (1cm.) closed tear to lower edge, minor handling wear, o/w Very Good plus. Illustrated in London’s Arts Labs, p.49. More about A poster announcing ‘Tzintzantzun - Aztec Ocarinas and Flutes’, an exhibition of musical...

i) IT #45 (November 29th, 1968). Includes 1pp. article on the Arts Lab split, with separate contributions from Jim Haynes, David Curtis, Lee Harris, Will Spoor, David Jeffrey and Martin Shann + qtr.-page ad. listing the Sensual Laboratory’s ‘Water Yam’ event (December 1st). Also: Herbert Marcuse; Miles on albums by Captain Beefheart, Soft Machine, the Grateful Dead and the Beatles; “A Letter from Banana Moon Observatory” by Daevid Allen (2pp.); Victor Schonfield on free jazz; John Peel column. Very Good; ii) IT #47 (January 1st, 1969). Includes David Mairowitz’s review of the Alchemical Wedding (items #27-29). Also: Miles..... More about A group of six underground publications printing news, articles and information on the Arts Labs:

Printed in black on white stock. 33x20.4cm. Old central horizontal fold, o/w Very Good plus. Together with: an original sticker reproducing the image from the poster. Printed in brown on yellow gummed paper. 9cm. sq. Slightly worn and creased. Probably intended for pasting up around town and on the London Underground. More about A mimeographed flyer announcing the ‘Alchemical Wedding’, reproducing the image from the...

(London): Fulham Gallery, nd. (1969). Printed offset litho in black, red and blue on white paper stock (76.5x51.2cm.). Illustrated with an Aldis light projection from ‘Son et Lumière for Earth, Air, Fire and Water’ (1966). A poetry poster designed by Tom Adams printing a poem by Edward Lucie-Smith and promoting the third Brighton Festival, April 27th-May 12th, 1969. Credits printed in blue along right edge. Light creasing to left edge and minor handling wear, o/w Very Good plus. More about Science Fiction?

An original b/w photograph of cast members Clive Colin-Bowler, Merdel Jordine, Maggy Maxwell, Jenny Harrington and Warwick Stuart on the roof of the Arts Lab. 30.5x19cm. Creasing to three corners, o/w Very Good. Illustrated in London’s Art Labs, p.41. Together with: Press release dated May 5th, 1969 announcing the presentation of Lee Harris’s ‘Love Play - a lyrical fantasy’ at the Arts Lab for two weeks, beginning May 13th. Quarto sheet, printed in black on white stock, recto only. Describes the production (directed by Canadian Robert Iscove, later a film and TV director) as “a total theatre..... More about Publicity photo + a press release dated May 5th, 1969 announcing the presentation of Lee...

+ Lab Mag #1 (Beckenham: Growth Print Project, October 1970), a one-off supplement to the Arts Labs Newsletter. Foolscap. Staple-bound wrps., each 14pp.-60pp. (occasional inserts). Various paperstocks and printing techniques, from mimeograph to screenprint. Published monthly (last issue delayed by several months). Produced by Nicholas Albery, the Newsletter was intended as a means of communication between the various regional Arts Labs and similar workshop-type groups throughout the country, and as a discussion forum, a platform for new ideas, a directory of the people involved and a listing of their activities. Contributions were submitted by the Arts Labs themselves..... More about THE ARTS LABS NEWSLETTER (London: BIT Information Service, October 1969-August 1971). 17 issues...

Consists of six illustrated sheets (four measure approx. 25.4x34.2cm. unfolded, two 26.5x38cm.), each folded vertically to make a leaflet, one of them printed in red (illustrated in London’s Arts Labs, p.128), together with a duplicate printed in green, and one in blue (London’s Arts Labs, p.143). Designed by Biddy Peppin. Narrow foolscap flyer, printed in black, recto and verso. One side announces the cinema screening schedule for late September, the other advertises a TVX event that coincided with the NFT’s International Underground Film Festival (“Expanded cinema-video actions by Peter Weibel and Valie Export”). Illustrated with Robert Crumb’s Mr. Natural (London’s..... More about A group of six consecutive monthly programme leaflets and one flyer, each printing detailed...

Stuttgart/London: Edition Hansjörg Mayer, 1978. First edition. Small 4to. Black cloth. 270pp. Illustrated throughout. Artist’s monograph written by a curator (later Director) at the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague, who first met Mark Boyle and Joan Hills at the ICA in London in 1969. One of an unspecified number of copies (c. 200) with an additional b/w photograph (an image of a hair seen through an electron microscope) SIGNED by Mark Boyle laid in (23.5x20.5cm.). Fine in very Near Fine b/w pictorial dw., housed in a matching cloth slipcase (slightly marked and a little faded..... More about Mark Boyle’s Journey to the Surface of the Earth

London: Faber, 1984. First edition. Wrps., 336pp. Illustrated throughout. A memoir-cum-scrapbook by Jim Haynes, who, after setting up the Traverse Theatre and Britain’s first paperback bookshop in Edinburgh, went on to establish the Arts Lab on Drury Lane in London, co-found International Times and help launch Suck, “the first European Sexpaper”. Small green sticker to (uncreased) spine; minor wear to lower edge of upper wrapper; o/w Near Fine. Together with: an unsent TLS from from Bill Levy to Germaine Greer in which he gives a favourable response to her scathing review of..... More about Thanks For Coming!

New Barnet, Herts.: John Libbey Publishing Ltd., 2020. First edition. Sm. 4to. Wrps., 170pp. (no hardcover issued). Profusely illustrated throughout in colour and b/w. Foreword by Andrew Wilson. Curtis describes the book in his introduction as “the first attempt to document London’s Arts Labs”, and its “primary purpose is to reconstruct the programme of events they offered, using surviving schedules, fliers, posters and letters and the recollections of some of those who were involved” (Curtis was involved with the Drury Lane Arts Lab and the New Arts Lab in Robert Street and ran the film sections of both). Fine. More about London’s Arts Labs and the 60s Avant-Garde