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Book N. 9

Scrapbook
1987-1991 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Scrapbook with red and blue binding, inscribed in pen on the spine with 'Book N. 9' and dates. The first item in the book is a Herb Ritts photograph of a nude male model behind a large bubble. The next three sides have clippings from a Vogue article about famous cultural figures from the last twenty years, all male, then follows six photographs of a man playing Monopoly; magazine clippings of Squires' Australian and Chatsworth fabric collections; a map of Florence; photographs of the staff at Warner Fabrics, including the artist, at an exhibition stand at a trade fair in Venice; a drawing of a group of young Italian men and a drawing of the Venetian skyline; two type written pages described dreams the artist had; a photograph of the artist wearing a suit in a hotel room in Venice; a science fiction postcard of a muscular man with a robot head and a woman wearing bikini briefs on a beach with a UFO overhead; a cover of the London area 1988 phone book; an air ticket to New York from London with British Airways; a postcard of Josephine Baker in 1927; three magazine clippings with photographs of the actor Christopher Lambert; three scientific toys by the Children's Encyclopedia explaining day and night, the Earth spinning and the hemispheres; a postcard of an artwork by Gordon Crook and a photograph of Crook; a pamphlet from an F. C. B. Cadell exhibition at the Portland Gallery in 1988; three photographs of the artist with two friends in the English countryside, and two photographs of a Concorde from an airport window.
Then follows a series of photographs of skyscrapers in New York; a magazine clipping depicting Benazir Bhutto; paper ephemera related to hotels the artist stayed in; five sides with various clippings about Andy Warhol; a card with a cartoon version of Margaret Thatcher with a noose around her neck; a clipping about The Fine Young Cannibals; clippings of Chet Baker at various ages; a page of notes regarding Disney and other films, signed 'the Publicity Department'; an A4 envelope addressed to Squires with 17 American postage stamps on the front; a series of photographs of a woman feeding birds by a pond with two children; a clipping depicting the architect I. M. Pei alongside a postcard of two men cleaning Pei's pyramid at the Louvre; a street map of Milan; photographs of a small display celebrating the 20 years since the Lunar Landing designs by the artist in 1969; a watercolour entitled 'Summer 81 Ladbroke Road 1989'; a postcard of Barbie and Ken surfing; a wash drawing of a horse; a risque advertisement for a Canadian film by Jacques M. Benoit from 1989; three decorated A4 envelopes from Mo McDermott in Los Angeles to the artist alongside photographs and scraps of drawings; a clipping of the actor Mel Gibson; photocopied postcards and notes from friends; blue wrapping paper with a pineapple motif; a promotional leaflet of a play by Iris Murdoch at the Aldwych Theatre entitled 'The Black Prince'; a series of photographs of the artist's elderly parents in 1989; a card of Elizabeth Taylor as Cleopatra in blue tones by Andy Warhol from the 1989 MOMA show; packaging for teabags, and a leaflet for an ENO production of the Magic Flute.
Following this are several photographs depicting the artist and colleagues setting up a stand at a trade show (the Decorex Furnishing Fabric Show of 1989); a photograph of the last drawing made by David Exley on the same page as a cover of the Scientific American in 1988 with the headline 'What Science knows about AIDS'; a photograph of the lunar eclipse; clippings about the designer Andre Debreuil; a map of Holland Park with parts of photographs pasted over it; a series of photographs of the artist with three male friends in the gardens of Hatfield House; a photograph of a cartoon mural with cat by david Exley ca. 1970; a homoerotic postcard of footballers; family photographs of the artist and his sister and friends in British Columbia; clippings about a Robert Mapplethorpe exhibition in Connecticut 1989; photographs of the artist in front of Mark Rothko and David Hockney paintings in the LA County Museum (LACMA); various other photographs of the artist visiting public libraries in California; a postcard and clipping about the political situation in East Timor; several photographs of the artist's friend David Mazer; promotional materials from the J. P. Getty Museum, December 1989; the cover of 'The Face' magazine about the 90s, December 1989. There is a note by the artist in blue at this point reading 'A new beginning to art and everyday life in a scrapbook diary....start in the centre. Go west for the 1990s, go east for the 1980s'.
There follows a selection of photographs of Squires and David Exley with a third man, Richard Reiche, in San Francisco, at the home of Exley.
There follows a loose card with a pencil inscription on the page reading 'A talismanic message from Gordon Crook'; a letter from Neil Harvey at the V&A thanking the artist for coming in to talk to staff about the development of his designs and working methods; a thank you card from the Metropolitan Museum in New York for a donation the artist made; a Sainsbury's receipt; a small poster of Minnie Mouse; two NatWest bank cards belonging to the artist, one split in two; information about organic wine; packaging for potato gratin, and glue pens; an article about wet and dry photography processes; a postcard of Anubis; a chronology of the life of Frans Hals; photographs of Squires and friends in a New York hotel room (the Royalton); clippings on the designer Marc Newson; a March 1990 cover of Newsweek with the headline 'The Future of Gay America'; three Polaroids of fashion designs by Neil Bottle; an Evening Standard cover from 1990 with a story about an Observer journalist murdered in Iraq; a comical card of Pope John Paul II; clippings regarding Section 28 and a production of 'Bent' at the Garrick Theatre with Ian McKellen; an Italian goats cheese wrapper; an American Express bank card belonging to the artist; a Christopher Isherwood quote from 'Christopher and his Kind'; photographs of a couple in front of a concrete building in Toronto; a postcard of Ghanian fabric design from a museum in Rotterdam; photographs of a joint 50th birthday celebration between the artist, Sue Palmer and two others; more clippings featuring quotes by literary figures on the subject of homosexuality and homophobia, printed on pink paper; wine bottle wrappers, and various ephemera from a Warner's Fabrics trade show in Florence.
The album then jumps back to the 1970s with photographs of the artist's friend David Exley and examples of his work ca. 1972. There follows a short obituary notice for Exley who died in April 1990, followed by photographs of Exley's partner and parents; a letter about Exley's career written by Squires; two notes by Exley's partner Ruppert Reiche to Squires about a trip to Kyiv (Kiev) and Moscow; two photographs of 1950s vintage cars by Exley ca. 1982; the packaging for a Depeche Mode release entitled 'Violator'; an official polling card belonging to Squires; clippings from newspapers and Newsweek magazine about AIDS; two more bank cards in the artist's name; supermarket receipts; ephemera from the Design Museum, American Ballet Museum, and from a production of 'Mother Courage' by Brecht at the Mermaid Theatre.
There follows four pages with clippings about the design work of Philippe Starck; two pages of promotional materials relating to a play entitled 'Burn This' stariing Juliet Stevenson and John Malkovich; a tag from Liberty's; a 1990 cover of 'The Face' magazine depicting Prince; Greenpeace cards about the whales and CFC pollution; a booklet about the Monument at London Bridge; a clipping of Deee-Lite from 'The Face' magazine; a picture of Derek Jarman from 'The Listener', August 1990, with the headline 'Facing up to AIDS'; print advertisements for curtains; the cover of 'For Him' magazine with Harrison Ford; a series of homoerotic magazine clippings of male models; a 3D postcard of the New York skyline; a small section of The Pink Paper; a large postcard of a landscape by Jacques Ruhlmann; a magazine clipping depicting Willem Dafoe; an invitation to a retirement party for Natalie Rothstein from the Textiles Department at the V&A; a flyer for a MOMA show entitled 'High and Low- Popular Culture and Modern Art'; a selection of business cards from New York; a flyer for 'Mexico', an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum; a Wizard of Oz collage postcard by Helga Strobel; three side of photographs of meals in restaurants; a chronology of Claude Monet from the Royal Academy; clippings of Versace menswear; a collage by the artist entitled 'A Visit to Los Angeles'; three pages of photographs depicting David Exley's partner Reiche, his cats, and vintage automobiles; Jack Nicholson on the cover of Arena magazine in 1990; a selection of Christmas cards from friends; a selection of photographs taken in La Defense and Paris in general; a hand-written note in horror at the outbreak of war in Iraq; the cover of Time Out magazine, February 1991; party invitations; a flyer for a V&A fashion photography show entitled 'Appearances'; a flyer for a Gerhard Richter show; a photograph of David Exley topless wearing leather gloves; more photographs of Exley's partner Rupert Richard Reiche with an inscription in pencil that he too had sadly died of AIDS in 1991; a page of promotional materials for Joe Orton's 'What the Butler Saw'; a pamphlet from a health organisation about condoms; a flyer for a Keith Vaughan exhibition of drawings of the young nude male; and finally, a list of homeopathic treatment 'do's and don'ts', a receipt from Sainsbury's, a yellow furniture design postcard, and some blank loose sheets of paper, one with doodles and the word 'Strangee' written upon it.

The clippings are interspersed with occasional blank pages. Most of the photographs have captions and dates inscibed in pencil.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleBook N. 9 (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Scrapbook of photographs and paper ephemera
Brief description
Scrapbook (No. 9 of 9) compiled by Eddie Squires, containing personal photographs, magazine clippings, and various paper ephemera from the late 1980s. Great Britain, 1987-1991.
Physical description
Scrapbook with red and blue binding, inscribed in pen on the spine with 'Book N. 9' and dates. The first item in the book is a Herb Ritts photograph of a nude male model behind a large bubble. The next three sides have clippings from a Vogue article about famous cultural figures from the last twenty years, all male, then follows six photographs of a man playing Monopoly; magazine clippings of Squires' Australian and Chatsworth fabric collections; a map of Florence; photographs of the staff at Warner Fabrics, including the artist, at an exhibition stand at a trade fair in Venice; a drawing of a group of young Italian men and a drawing of the Venetian skyline; two type written pages described dreams the artist had; a photograph of the artist wearing a suit in a hotel room in Venice; a science fiction postcard of a muscular man with a robot head and a woman wearing bikini briefs on a beach with a UFO overhead; a cover of the London area 1988 phone book; an air ticket to New York from London with British Airways; a postcard of Josephine Baker in 1927; three magazine clippings with photographs of the actor Christopher Lambert; three scientific toys by the Children's Encyclopedia explaining day and night, the Earth spinning and the hemispheres; a postcard of an artwork by Gordon Crook and a photograph of Crook; a pamphlet from an F. C. B. Cadell exhibition at the Portland Gallery in 1988; three photographs of the artist with two friends in the English countryside, and two photographs of a Concorde from an airport window.
Then follows a series of photographs of skyscrapers in New York; a magazine clipping depicting Benazir Bhutto; paper ephemera related to hotels the artist stayed in; five sides with various clippings about Andy Warhol; a card with a cartoon version of Margaret Thatcher with a noose around her neck; a clipping about The Fine Young Cannibals; clippings of Chet Baker at various ages; a page of notes regarding Disney and other films, signed 'the Publicity Department'; an A4 envelope addressed to Squires with 17 American postage stamps on the front; a series of photographs of a woman feeding birds by a pond with two children; a clipping depicting the architect I. M. Pei alongside a postcard of two men cleaning Pei's pyramid at the Louvre; a street map of Milan; photographs of a small display celebrating the 20 years since the Lunar Landing designs by the artist in 1969; a watercolour entitled 'Summer 81 Ladbroke Road 1989'; a postcard of Barbie and Ken surfing; a wash drawing of a horse; a risque advertisement for a Canadian film by Jacques M. Benoit from 1989; three decorated A4 envelopes from Mo McDermott in Los Angeles to the artist alongside photographs and scraps of drawings; a clipping of the actor Mel Gibson; photocopied postcards and notes from friends; blue wrapping paper with a pineapple motif; a promotional leaflet of a play by Iris Murdoch at the Aldwych Theatre entitled 'The Black Prince'; a series of photographs of the artist's elderly parents in 1989; a card of Elizabeth Taylor as Cleopatra in blue tones by Andy Warhol from the 1989 MOMA show; packaging for teabags, and a leaflet for an ENO production of the Magic Flute.
Following this are several photographs depicting the artist and colleagues setting up a stand at a trade show (the Decorex Furnishing Fabric Show of 1989); a photograph of the last drawing made by David Exley on the same page as a cover of the Scientific American in 1988 with the headline 'What Science knows about AIDS'; a photograph of the lunar eclipse; clippings about the designer Andre Debreuil; a map of Holland Park with parts of photographs pasted over it; a series of photographs of the artist with three male friends in the gardens of Hatfield House; a photograph of a cartoon mural with cat by david Exley ca. 1970; a homoerotic postcard of footballers; family photographs of the artist and his sister and friends in British Columbia; clippings about a Robert Mapplethorpe exhibition in Connecticut 1989; photographs of the artist in front of Mark Rothko and David Hockney paintings in the LA County Museum (LACMA); various other photographs of the artist visiting public libraries in California; a postcard and clipping about the political situation in East Timor; several photographs of the artist's friend David Mazer; promotional materials from the J. P. Getty Museum, December 1989; the cover of 'The Face' magazine about the 90s, December 1989. There is a note by the artist in blue at this point reading 'A new beginning to art and everyday life in a scrapbook diary....start in the centre. Go west for the 1990s, go east for the 1980s'.
There follows a selection of photographs of Squires and David Exley with a third man, Richard Reiche, in San Francisco, at the home of Exley.
There follows a loose card with a pencil inscription on the page reading 'A talismanic message from Gordon Crook'; a letter from Neil Harvey at the V&A thanking the artist for coming in to talk to staff about the development of his designs and working methods; a thank you card from the Metropolitan Museum in New York for a donation the artist made; a Sainsbury's receipt; a small poster of Minnie Mouse; two NatWest bank cards belonging to the artist, one split in two; information about organic wine; packaging for potato gratin, and glue pens; an article about wet and dry photography processes; a postcard of Anubis; a chronology of the life of Frans Hals; photographs of Squires and friends in a New York hotel room (the Royalton); clippings on the designer Marc Newson; a March 1990 cover of Newsweek with the headline 'The Future of Gay America'; three Polaroids of fashion designs by Neil Bottle; an Evening Standard cover from 1990 with a story about an Observer journalist murdered in Iraq; a comical card of Pope John Paul II; clippings regarding Section 28 and a production of 'Bent' at the Garrick Theatre with Ian McKellen; an Italian goats cheese wrapper; an American Express bank card belonging to the artist; a Christopher Isherwood quote from 'Christopher and his Kind'; photographs of a couple in front of a concrete building in Toronto; a postcard of Ghanian fabric design from a museum in Rotterdam; photographs of a joint 50th birthday celebration between the artist, Sue Palmer and two others; more clippings featuring quotes by literary figures on the subject of homosexuality and homophobia, printed on pink paper; wine bottle wrappers, and various ephemera from a Warner's Fabrics trade show in Florence.
The album then jumps back to the 1970s with photographs of the artist's friend David Exley and examples of his work ca. 1972. There follows a short obituary notice for Exley who died in April 1990, followed by photographs of Exley's partner and parents; a letter about Exley's career written by Squires; two notes by Exley's partner Ruppert Reiche to Squires about a trip to Kyiv (Kiev) and Moscow; two photographs of 1950s vintage cars by Exley ca. 1982; the packaging for a Depeche Mode release entitled 'Violator'; an official polling card belonging to Squires; clippings from newspapers and Newsweek magazine about AIDS; two more bank cards in the artist's name; supermarket receipts; ephemera from the Design Museum, American Ballet Museum, and from a production of 'Mother Courage' by Brecht at the Mermaid Theatre.
There follows four pages with clippings about the design work of Philippe Starck; two pages of promotional materials relating to a play entitled 'Burn This' stariing Juliet Stevenson and John Malkovich; a tag from Liberty's; a 1990 cover of 'The Face' magazine depicting Prince; Greenpeace cards about the whales and CFC pollution; a booklet about the Monument at London Bridge; a clipping of Deee-Lite from 'The Face' magazine; a picture of Derek Jarman from 'The Listener', August 1990, with the headline 'Facing up to AIDS'; print advertisements for curtains; the cover of 'For Him' magazine with Harrison Ford; a series of homoerotic magazine clippings of male models; a 3D postcard of the New York skyline; a small section of The Pink Paper; a large postcard of a landscape by Jacques Ruhlmann; a magazine clipping depicting Willem Dafoe; an invitation to a retirement party for Natalie Rothstein from the Textiles Department at the V&A; a flyer for a MOMA show entitled 'High and Low- Popular Culture and Modern Art'; a selection of business cards from New York; a flyer for 'Mexico', an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum; a Wizard of Oz collage postcard by Helga Strobel; three side of photographs of meals in restaurants; a chronology of Claude Monet from the Royal Academy; clippings of Versace menswear; a collage by the artist entitled 'A Visit to Los Angeles'; three pages of photographs depicting David Exley's partner Reiche, his cats, and vintage automobiles; Jack Nicholson on the cover of Arena magazine in 1990; a selection of Christmas cards from friends; a selection of photographs taken in La Defense and Paris in general; a hand-written note in horror at the outbreak of war in Iraq; the cover of Time Out magazine, February 1991; party invitations; a flyer for a V&A fashion photography show entitled 'Appearances'; a flyer for a Gerhard Richter show; a photograph of David Exley topless wearing leather gloves; more photographs of Exley's partner Rupert Richard Reiche with an inscription in pencil that he too had sadly died of AIDS in 1991; a page of promotional materials for Joe Orton's 'What the Butler Saw'; a pamphlet from a health organisation about condoms; a flyer for a Keith Vaughan exhibition of drawings of the young nude male; and finally, a list of homeopathic treatment 'do's and don'ts', a receipt from Sainsbury's, a yellow furniture design postcard, and some blank loose sheets of paper, one with doodles and the word 'Strangee' written upon it.

The clippings are interspersed with occasional blank pages. Most of the photographs have captions and dates inscibed in pencil.
Dimensions
  • Height: 45 (cm)
  • Width: 30 (cm) (Note: Dimensions taken from departmental notes)
Dimensions taken from departmental notes
Credit line
Bequeathed by Eddie Squires
Subjects depicted
Places depicted
Collection
Accession number
E.1052-2000

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