Alec Finlay, Scotland
Alec Finlay, Scotland
Alec Finlay (1966, Inverness) is an artist poet and publisher. Recent major residencies, exhibitions and public art projects in the UK include /W/M/ NaREC, National Centre for Renewable Energy, Blyth; floating island garden: a public artwork and web-book commissioned by Northumberland Coast AONB. Recent exhibitions include Waterlog, The Sunken Bell: (with Guy Moreton) at the Castle Museum and SCVA, Norwich (organised by Jeremy Millar and Film and Video Umbrella); Specimen Colony: a public artwork / group exhibition and book for Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool; two wheat fields: completion of a public artwork, book and web-book commissioned by Milton Keynes Gallery, on the theme of agriculture, harvest and biogenetics.
Other residencies, exhibitions and public art projects have included: In their own words: a group exhibition at End Gallery, Sheffield. Siren: (with Chris Watson) is included in a group exhibition, Amsterdam. CUBECIRCLE: an art performance (with Dan Civico) at platform 000006, Waygood, Newcastle. CAST: a sculpture for International Art-Path-Laboratory, Darmstadt, Germany. Alec also exhibited in Word Order: a group exhibition, The Changing Room, Stirling. He won the International Edible Art Award and had an exhibition at Village Bakery Gallery, Melmerby, and completed phase one of string of pearls, a public art commission for Dysart, Fife. An exhibition of all Alec’s publications, folio/series//book/series, was hosted by the Scottish Poetry Library, Edinburgh.
