{"title":"James Birch","description":"\u003cp\u003eJames Birch is a British curator, art dealer and gallerist whose work has connected contemporary British art with international exhibition contexts. He opened James Birch Art in 1983, showing Surrealists and emerging British artists, followed by Birch \u0026amp; Conran Fine Art in Soho in 1987 and later A22 Gallery in Clerkenwell; he was also Grayson Perry’s first gallerist. Birch organised Francis Bacon’s exhibition at Moscow’s Central House of Artists in 1988 and subsequently enabled Gilbert \u0026amp; George’s presentations in Russia and China, recounting the Bacon exhibition in his memoir Bacon in Moscow.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"genesis-breyer-p-orridge-painful-but-fabulous-a22-gallery-2003","title":"BREYER P-ORRIDGE, Painful But Fabulous (The Lives and Art of Genesis P-Orridge), A22 Gallery, 2003","description":"\u003cp\u003eIssued for the private view on 1 June 2003, this signed exhibition invitation announced \u003cem\u003ePainful But Fabulous (The Lives and Art of Genesis P-Orridge)\u003c\/em\u003e at James Birch’s A22 Gallery, 22 Laystall Street, Clerkenwell, London, from 4–27 June 2003. The exhibition brought together expanded Polaroids and objects spanning 1973–2003. Measuring 13.5 × 21 cm, the invitation is offset-printed in colour to the recto with black printing to the verso and reproduces \u003cem\u003eTransgendered Sacred Heart (sketch)\u003c\/em\u003e, 2003, credited to BREYER P-ORRIDGE, the collaborative identity of Genesis P-Orridge and Lady Jaye Breyer. The image combines a Catholic Sacred Heart prayer card with a Polaroid photograph, retaining the halo, clouds and devotional composition while introducing an altered body and suspended red heart. The distinction between the individual name in the exhibition title and the collaborative image credit places the invitation within the development of the couple’s Pandrogeny Project, which explored shared identity through bodily modification, photography and performance. This example is signed vertically in ballpoint beside the figure’s halo, with the Psychick Cross and number 23 associated with Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth. From the James Birch Collection, it formed part of a group of five individually signed invitations retained by the exhibition’s organiser and documented in the October 2026 Sworders sale; this is a recorded group of signed copies, not a stated edition of five. Condition is very good, with a faint paperclip indentation at the lower right corner; otherwise clean. Retained by Birch, the invitation records both the exhibition’s circulation and the coexistence of the individual and collaborative names within its printed presentation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRead more in the Journal: \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/journal\/re-circulation-009-found-prayer-card\"\u003eRE:CIRCULATION No. 009, Found Prayer Card\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"A22 Gallery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55030346973522,"sku":"TNR-2026-0686","price":350.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Genesis_Breyer_P-Orridge_A22_GALLERY_Invitation_2003_Signed01_jpg.png?v=1791814614"},{"product_id":"breyer-p-orridge-prayers-for-pandrogeny-breaking-sex-2003","title":"BREYER P-ORRIDGE, Prayers for Pandrogeny \u0026 Breaking Sex, 2003","description":"\u003cp\u003eProduced in 2003 under the shared name Breyer P-Orridge, this set of eight printed devotional cards, titled \u003cem\u003ePrayers for Pandrogeny \u0026amp; Breaking Sex\u003c\/em\u003e, belongs to the early period of Genesis P-Orridge and Lady Jaye Breyer’s Pandrogeny Project. Each card measures 7.5 × 4.4 cm and carries a colour reproduction of a modified Sacred Heart image to the recto, with black text to the verso. The image retains the halo and devotional composition while replacing the conventional religious anatomy with an exposed chest and suspended red heart. The reverse texts take the form of prayers, declarations and a litany concerned with gender, identity and bodily transformation; all eight conclude with “S\/HE IS HER\/E” and the copyright notice © Breyer P-Orridge 2003. Through bodily modification, photography, performance and language, the collaboration explored the construction of a shared identity, redirecting the familiar devotional card towards propositions about the body and its capacity for change. The cards are accompanied by their original textured cream envelope, measuring 15.9 × 11.2 cm, with a blind-embossed circular LIMITED \/ P-ORRIDGE seal and two handwritten signatures in different inks to the front: “J Breyer” for Lady Jaye in grey, and Genesis P-Orridge in black ink. The seal does not establish an edition size. Condition is very good: the cards are clean, while the envelope has light handling wear, minor creasing and a small area of wear at the flap tip. Across the set, a repeated devotional image accompanies eight different texts, making repetition itself part of the object’s treatment of shared identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRead more in the Journal: \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/journal\/re-circulation-009-found-prayer-card\"\u003eRE:CIRCULATION No. 009, Found Prayer Card\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The New Rare","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55031912595794,"sku":"TNR-2026-0687","price":1250.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Genesis_Breyer_P-Orridge_A22_GALLERY_Invitation_2003_01_jpg.png?v=1791826394"},{"product_id":"genesis-p-orridge-cultural-engineer-business-card-new-york","title":"GENESIS P-ORRIDGE, Cultural Engineer, Business Card, New York, c. late 1990s","description":"\u003cp\u003ePrinted for Genesis P-Orridge's years in New York, this business card gives its holder a job title, Cultural Engineer, and a promise across the top: \"Your 15 minutes just became eternity.\" The line takes Andy Warhol's fifteen minutes of fame and makes them permanent. No date is printed; the Yahoo address on the reverse places the card after Yahoo Mail launched in 1997, and the name it carries is Genesis P-Orridge, which together point to the late 1990s or early 2000s. The front sets a portrait of P-Orridge against three bands of blue, red and brown, with the name in yellow calligraphic lettering and four sigils in pink below, among them the Throbbing Gristle flash and the psychick cross of Psychic TV and Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth. The reverse repeats the four sigils in grey over a dark photographic ground, with a P.O. box at Peter Stuyvesant Station, New York, N.Y. 10009, a 718 telephone and fax number, an email address and genesisp-orridge.com. From the James Birch Collection. 8.9 × 5 cm. Fine, with faint signs of age and light wear to the corners. A business card is made to be handed out and thrown away; this one kept both the job title and the promise.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Genesis P-Orridge","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55170089845074,"sku":"TNR-2026-0691","price":300.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/tnr-nl001-gpo-business-card-front.jpg?v=1792602144"},{"product_id":"genesis-p-orridge-transmediator-tacheles-ex-pop-berlin-1996","title":"GENESIS P.ORRIDGE, Transmediator, Tacheles and Ex \u0026 Pop, Berlin, 1996","description":"\u003cp\u003ePrinted to announce two nights in Berlin in March 1996, this flyer advertised Transmediator, billed as words, art, music: a series in which Genesis P.Orridge presented their own texts. On 25 March at Tacheles, Oranienburger Strasse 53–56, the programme was a lecture with Julie Wilson, a video screening and ambient trance from the Berlin DJ Tanith, beginning at 22.00; on 27 March at Ex \u0026amp; Pop on Mansteinstrasse, a LectureEvent and screening, with ambient disco. The Berlin daily \u003cem\u003etaz\u003c\/em\u003e listed the Tacheles night on 23 March 1996, noting previously unreleased films by Derek Jarman among the screenings. The long card is printed in colour on one side only: a pink frame around a gradient of rose, orange and blue, the title set twice, once in an invented script and once in roman, and at right a portrait of P.Orridge with the psychick cross. The reverse is blank. From the James Birch Collection. 21 × 7.4 cm. Fine, with faint signs of age and a few light bumps to the corners. The flyer spells the name P.Orridge, with a full stop.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Genesis P-Orridge","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55170089943378,"sku":"TNR-2026-0692","price":300.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/tnr-nl001-transmediator-berlin-1996.jpg?v=1792602143"},{"product_id":"breyer-p-orridge-transgendered-sacred-heart-candle-sticker-a22-gallery-2003","title":"BREYER P-ORRIDGE, Transgendered Sacred Heart, Candle Sticker, A22 Gallery, 2003","description":"\u003cp\u003eMade for \u003cem\u003ePainful But Fabulous (The Lives and Art of Genesis P-Orridge)\u003c\/em\u003e, the Breyer P-Orridge exhibition at James Birch's A22 Gallery in Clerkenwell, London, in June 2003, stickers like this one were applied by hand to tall glass devotional candles, which were then signed by both artists. This sticker was never applied. It carries the \u003cem\u003eTransgendered Sacred Heart\u003c\/em\u003e, the image that also appears on the exhibition's private view invitation: a Catholic Sacred Heart picture with halo and clouds, altered so that the figure has breasts and holds a suspended red heart. The reverse is blank. From the James Birch Collection. 16.2 × 10.1 cm. Unused. Fine, with faint signs of age and a few light bumps to the corners. It is the only unused example we know of; the others went onto the glass.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSee also the signed private view invitation: \u003ca href=\"\/products\/genesis-breyer-p-orridge-painful-but-fabulous-a22-gallery-2003\"\u003ePainful But Fabulous, A22 Gallery, 2003\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"A22 Gallery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55170090008914,"sku":"TNR-2026-0693","price":195.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/tnr-nl001-sacred-heart-sticker.jpg?v=1792602143"},{"product_id":"psychic-tv-ptv3-european-de-tour-ms-stubnitz-rostock-2004","title":"PSYCHIC TV, PTV3, European De-Tour, MS Stubnitz, Rostock, 2004","description":"\u003cp\u003ePrinted for the European De-Tour of 2004, this flyer announced Psychic TV, now PTV3, aboard the MS Stubnitz in Rostock's Stadthafen on 28 September 2004, with Column One and Lu(x)z of Amoeba Technology in support. The re-formed band had made its debut in New York in 2003 and began touring Europe and North America in September 2004. The flyer lists the line-up: Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, vocals; Alice Genese, bass; Eddie ODowd, drums; Fabulous Persson, keyboards; Lady Jaye Breyer P-Orridge, keys; David Max, guitar. The Stubnitz is a former East German refrigeration ship, converted into a venue. The front sets a green psychick cross over magenta under the heading Unclean Verse-ions ov Thee Hyperelic Hits, Thee Third Couming ov Psychic TV, with s\/he is her\/e at lower left. The reverse, printed in green, advertises a separate night on the same ship on Thursday 7 October: Larvae, Mr. Burroughs Says Marie Lies and DJ Kundan Lal, entry two euros. From the James Birch Collection. 14.6 × 10.5 cm. Fine, with faint signs of age and light bumps to the corners. Lady Jaye Breyer P-Orridge died in 2007; on this card she is listed on keys.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MS Stubnitz","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55170090107218,"sku":"TNR-2026-0694","price":195.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/tnr-nl001-ptv3-stubnitz-2004-front.jpg?v=1792602144"},{"product_id":"psychic-tv-la-maroquinerie-paris-2004","title":"PSYCHIC TV, La Maroquinerie, Paris, 2004","description":"\u003cp\u003ePrinted by La Maroquinerie, the Paris venue at 23 rue Boyer in the 20th arrondissement, for a Psychic TV concert on 5 October 2004, presented with Garance Productions: doors at 20h, tickets 16 euros. The text introduces the band as a figure of the underground of the 1970s and 1980s, at once a pioneer of industrial music and a precursor of acid house. By 2004 the underground arrived with its history printed on the flyer. The front sets a portrait against yellow, scattered with black and pink dots; the reverse, from the same venue, advertises the café's Découvertes Chanson Française evenings with SACEM on 20, 21, 27 and 28 September, with Benoît Dorémus, Thibaud Couturier and Les Elles du Tango, entry free. From the James Birch Collection. 15 × 10.5 cm. Fine, with faint signs of age and light bumps to the corners; faint set-off on both sides, where lettering from neighbouring flyers in the stack has ghosted onto the yellow. 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