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Peter Finnemore

http://www.peterfinnemore.com
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Peter Finnemore is an artist working across a range of platforms; including photographic art, video, performed activities, installation, writing and curatorial practice.

Born in Llanelli, Wales in 1963 Finnemore was one of the first student intakes at the new Fine Art Photography Course set up in 1984 by Thomas Joshua Cooper at the Glasgow School of Art. Here he received a BA Hons in Fine Art Photography (84-87) and Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art (87-88). He later studied at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA where he gained an MFA in Photography (92-94). Finnemore's first major exhibition was in 1986, where he participated in the New Contemporaries exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London.

He has since exhibited in solo and group exhibitions both nationally and internationally, including representing Wales at the 51st Venice Biennale (2005). His major published works include The Silent Village, (Ffotogallery, 2010), Gwendraeth House (Ffotogallery, 2000) and Zen Gardener (Oriel Mostyn, 2004). His works are held in a number of private and public collections including The Lidice Memorial Museum, Czech Republic, The Art Museum at Princeton University, New Jersey, USA, The Chrysler Museum of Art, Virginia, USA, Arts Council of Great Britain, Scottish Arts Council and the National Museums of Wales Collection. He is currently an independent artist working in several capacities, including; Visiting Professor in Photography at the University of Derby, External Assessor for the Fine Art Department at the Glasgow School of Art and Senior Lecturer in Art and Design (.5) with Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol (Welsh National College) at University of Wales Trinity St. David.

His recent major exhibitions and catalogues include The Silent Village, exhibited in 2012 at DOX – Centre for Contemporary Art in Prague, Czech Republic. His major opus is a 25 year-long deep investigation into the existential impact of generational and cultural traces upon the home and garden space. These personal and universal environments become a compact manifold; that is, without boundary, occupying both physical and unconscious dimensions. Through creative and transformative participation the home space becomes an instrument of measurement, a stone, bricks and mortar astrolabe to chart the universal interior.

He is currently working upon a series of artists’ books and editions from his archive of projects.

http://www.peterfinnemore.org/

http://peterfinnemore.blogspot.com

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4071070/lambentmaterials.pdf (essay by Patrick Lynch)

http://vimeo.com/user5653925/videos

http://www.source.ie/artists/artistsF/artfinpet.html

http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/reviews/maine/maine1-5-06.asp

http://www.artfutures.org.uk/Artist/peter-finnemore

• ARTfutures 2008

  6th March — 12th March 2008
  Bloomberg Space 50 Finsbury Square London EC2A 1HD