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    Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardener (1925–2006)

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  2. scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk

    Selected Bibliography. Such is the breadth and complexity of Finlay's bibliography that it is advisable to consult a bibliographic guide such as Graeme Murray's Ian Hamilton Finlay and The Wild Hawthorn Press: A Catalogue Raisonné 1958 - 1990 (Edinburgh: Graeme Murray, 1990), or the one included with Yves Abrioux's Ian Hamilton Finlay: A Visual Primer, if searching for particular ...
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    Finlay was born in Nassau, Bahamas, to James Hamilton Finlay and his wife, Annie Pettigrew, both of Scots descent.. He was educated at Dollar Academy in Clackmannanshire and later at Glasgow School of Art.At the age of 13, with the outbreak of the Second World War, he was evacuated to family in the countryside (firstly to Gartmore and then to Kirkudbright).
  5. poetryfoundation.org

    Ian Hamilton Finlay was born to Scottish parents in the Bahamas, where his father allegedly ran alcohol to the United States. ... at the start of World War II, evacuated to Orkney. He attended art school in Glasgow but never completed his degree; instead, he served in the Non-Combatant and Service Corps until 1947, spending time in postwar ...
  6. archive.ica.art

    Finlay's most famous creation is his garden, Little Sparta, a fusion of poetic and sculptural elements with the natural landscape, and which employs the classical, revolutionary and martial imagery that would be a feature of his later work. Ian Hamilton Finlay was born in the Bahamas in 1925, but spent most of his life in Scotland.
  7. degruyter.com

    This volume surveys the life and work of the Scottish poet Ian Hamilton Finlay, who is best known for his extraordinary garden, Little Sparta, a unique "poem of place" in which poetry, sculpture, and horticulture intersect. This book directs sustained attention to Finlay the verbal artist, revealing the full breadth and richness of his poetics. It illuminates the evolution from his early years ...
  8. littlesparta.org.uk

    Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925 - 2006) was a poet, writer, visual artist and gardener. He is now internationally recognised for his work in each of these art forms. Finlay was born in Nassau, the Bahamas, in 1925. Finlay's father bootlegged alcohol from Nassau into the USA until the repeal of prohibition laws in 1933, when he and Finlay's mother unsuccessfully attempted to start an orange ...
  9. artcollection.dcms.gov.uk

    Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925-2006) was a poet, gardener, moralist and neo-classical artist, whose work took many forms. Born in the Bahamas of Scottish parents, Finlay returned as a child to Scotland. Following a brief period at Glasgow School of Art, he served during the War in Germany, and subsequently worked as a shepherd in the Orkneys and later as an agricultural labourer. In the 1950s he ...
  10. whatsoninedinburgh.co.uk

    Feb 7, 2025The centenary of celebrated Scottish artist Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925-2006) will be marked by a new, free display of his work at the National Galleries of Scotland: Modern. ... the Enlightenment to World War Two, Finlay, a self-proclaimed 'anti-modernist', often looked to history for inspiration. ... literature and art - with subtle ...
  11. books.google.com

    "The Scottish concrete poet, visual artist, short story writer, aphorist, editor, and 'avant-gardener' Ian Hamilton Finlay is one of the great polymaths of our time. His writings alone would put him in the pantheon of twentieth century poets. Finlay's son Alec, himself a poet, has now given us a selection of his father's writings, beautifully edited and annotated, lavishly ...
  12. worldliteratureforum.com

    Writers of the World. Writers . Ian Hamilton Finlay ... Reader. Apr 27, 2011 #1 Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925-2006) was a writer, a concrete poet, a conceptual artist, a philosopher, a gardener, and a carnaptious, cantankerous Scot, usually all at the same time. He is best known for his sculpture garden Little Sparta, in the hills south-west of ...
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