Ian Hamilton Finlay, CBE (28 October 1925 – 27 March 2006) was a Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardener. At the age of 13, with the outbreak of the Second World War, he was evacuated to family in the countryside. The Best of Enemies is on Wednesday, October 23, at 7pm for 7.30pm, at the Corn Exchange, Biggar, when Magnus Linklater will chair a discussion between Professor Alan Riach and Professor Stephen Bann on the connections and disconnections between Hugh MacDiarmid and Ian Hamilton Finlay. Essays on the poetry and art of Ian Hamilton Finlay, edited by Alec Finlay (Edinburgh: Paragon, 1995) [23], Finlay also came into conflict with the Strathclyde Regional Council over his liability for rates on a byre in his garden, which the council insisted was being used as commercial premises. Poets. Paperworks are printed in editions of 250 or 300, unless otherwise stated. The sun is a way of measuring time as well as fixing a position in space. The grave lies in the extreme south-east corner of the churchyard. Poets.org Donate Donate. One of the few gardens outside Scotland to permanently display his work is the Improvement Garden in Stockwood Discovery Centre, Luton, created in collaboration with Sue Finlay, Gary Hincks and Nicholas Sloan. He was awarded honorary doctorates from Aberdeen University in 1987, Heriot-Watt University in 1993[26] and the University of Glasgow in 2001, and an honorary and/or visiting professorship from the University of Dundee in 1999. Information from Wikipedia, made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. The typographical order of letters and words were just as important to the poet as the traditional elements of content, rhythm, and rhyme—which prefigured his development as a visual artist. Finlay received the Scottish Horticultural Medal from the Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society in 2002 and the Scottish Arts Council Creative Scotland Award in 2003. [7] Dancers was included in its entirety in a New Directions annual a few years later. Sir Roy Strong has said of Little Sparta that it is "the only really original garden made in this country since 1945".[16]. Ian Hamilton Finlay first became known in the 1960s as an author of concrete poetry. Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925-2006) was an internationally renowned Scottish artist and also Britain’s most significant concrete poet of the 20th century. A Visual Primer, by Yves Abrioux. Finlay, Ian Hamilton (1925-2006), Scottish sculptor, graphic artist and poet. Arbre (Tree), 1976 Wooden sculpture with letter-carving by Michael Harvey, 2640 x 510 x 100 mm. Search more than 3,000 biographies of contemporary and classic poets. Ian Hamilton Finlay, CBE (28 October 1925 – 27 March 2006) was a Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardener. Ian Hamilton Finlay was born in Nassau, Bahamas, in 1925, but his family later returned to Scotland. Finlay was sent back to Scotland at the age of six and, at the start of World War II, evacuated to Orkney. A selection of poets who served in the largest conflict in human history. The obvious element which connects the work of Ian Hamilton Finlay to the school of Scottish Enlightenment thought is his recurrent reference to the French Revolution, as seen in pieces such as Marat assassiné. This major exhibition focuses on the maritime theme in Finlay’s work. [5], His first collection of poetry, The Dancers Inherit the Party, was published in 1960 by Migrant Press with a second edition published in 1962. [5] Finlay respected the expertise of sandblasters, engravers and printers he worked with,[32] having approximately one hundred collaborators including Patrick Caulfield, Richard Demarco, Malcolm Fraser, Christopher Hall, Margot Sandeman. Ian Hamilton Finlay 1925 - 2006 Ian Hamilton Finlay was a short-story writer, poet, concrete poet, visual and conceptual artist, sculptor, gardener and classical moralist, now internationally recognised for his contributions to each of these spheres of culture. Michael McNay. The five-acre garden also includes more conventional sculptures and two garden temples. He is now internationally recognised for his work in each of these art forms. This glass poem sundial suggests the shape of a sail, moving through the sea yet in sight of the land. He was sent to the Orkneys during World War One. Ian Hamilton Finlay: the concrete poet as avant gardener Finlay's garden Little Sparta is one of the wonders of 20th-century art. In December 2004, in a poll[14] conducted by Scotland on Sunday, a panel of fifty artists, gallery directors and arts professionals voted Little Sparta to be the most important work of Scottish art. There are a few prints still available signed by Ian Hamilton Finlay. 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