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Ian Hamilton Finlay
Ian Hamilton Finlay
Nymph / Ship, Blue Waters Bark, Swallow, 1999. Installation in idylls and interventions, 2003.
Victoria Miro Gallery
Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro Gallery, London
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Ian Hamilton Finlay's practice stems from poetry, which he began writing
in the mid-1950s and is characterised by its simplicity and concision.
His works often combine words and objects to provoke associations
that relate back to history and mythology.
Nymph/Ship, Blue Waters Bark and Swallow, works currently
on display in the Triennial, play upon the similarity
of the words 'bark' and 'barque' (meaning boat), while their classical form
suggests antiquity. Collectively they summon up the first ship of classical
myth, Jason's Argo, which was made out of the hollowed-out wood of
blue pines.
Biography
Born in Nassau, Bahamas in 1925 and died in 2006
Selected Solo Exhibitions
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2005
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Sentences, Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh
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2002
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Maritime Works, Tate St. Ives, Cornwall
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1999
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Variation on Several Themes, Joan Miro Foundation, Barcelona
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1995
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Works: Pure and Political, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
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1993
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Wildwachsende Blumen, Lenbachhaus, Munich
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1987
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Inter Artes et Naturam, Musée d'Art Moderne
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Selected Group Exhibitions
Lives and works in Stonypath, Scotland
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