Text supplied by Roisin Byrne: "You don’t bring me flowers anymore: On the 16th of June 2009 motivated by a desire for the artist, his work and his contacts correspondense was initiated with the 4 main dealers for Simon Starling. Asking for current information on a work from 2000 a week later Starling helped locate the original. Stolen and smuggled back to the UK it was immediately put to work, 2009. Rhodedendron ponticum plant stolen from Parque Los Alcomocales Spain and smuggled into the UK after being rescued and re-introduced into cultivation by Simon Starling in 2000, flight documents, book pages, email correspondence." Roisin Byrne supplied the four photos. artdesigncafe.com has not seen the artworks and personally we would be very pleased to learn that they don’t exist beyond publicity photos and email documentation.

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