Ian Hamilton Finlay - Printed works, Sculptures and gardens, Bibliography

Poet and artist, born in Nassau, the Bahamas, of Scottish parents and brought up in Scotland. He served in the army (1944–7), after which he studied at Glasgow College of Art. In 1960 he published The Dancers Inherit the Party, and went on to become widely known as the leading British exponent of concrete poetry during that decade. His later poetry collections included Spring Verses (1993) and Redoubt (1994). In 1966 he made his home in Stonypath, Lanarkshire, where he developed the extensive gardens there into a famous shrine to pacifism known as Little Sparta. The garden was filled with inscribed stones, monuments and buildings reflecting on the subject of war. Throughout his life he produced a vast output of poetry, photographs, and prints, and also worked in ceramics, tapestries, wood carvings, bronzes, and furniture. He was short-listed for the Turner Prize in 1985. Despite suffering a serious stroke in 2001, he was able to stage an exhibition entitled Maritime Works in 2002. A permanent installation of his work is at the Serpentine Gallery, London.

Ian Hamilton Finlay
Born	28 October 1925 Nassau, Bahamas
Died	27 March 2006 Edinburgh, Scotland
Nationality	Scottish
Field	concrete poetry, poetry, publishing, sculpture, gardens, conceptual art
Famous works	Little Sparta, Sea Poppy (with Alistair Cant), The Little Seamstress (with Richard Demarco), MAN / A PASSERBY, Five Columns for Kröller-Müller, Starlit Waters, Tree-Shells (with Ian Gardner), Revolutionary Garden in Versailles (not built), UNDA
Awards	CBE, Scottish Horticultural Medal, Creative Scotland Award

Ian Hamilton Finlay (28 October 1925 - 27 March 2006) was a Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardener.

At the end of the war, Finlay worked as a shepherd, before beginning to write short stories and poems.

In 1963, Finlay published Rapel, his first collection of concrete poetry (poetry in which the layout and typography of the words contributes to its overall effect), and it was as a concrete poet that he first gained wide renown.

Beginning in 1974, Finlay created the UNDA wall at the Max Planck Institute garden in Stuttgart. Finlay was awarded honorary doctorates from Aberdeen University in 1987, Heriot-Watt University in 1993 and the University of Glasgow in 2001, and an honorary and/or visiting professorship from the University of Dundee in 1999.

Printed works

Some images of cards, prints, books, booklets, proposals, poems in folders, stamps, and other works for sale are at Wild Hawthorn Press in 2006 Some images of works and collaborations are at the Tate Collection

Sculptures and gardens

Little Sparta, Dunsyre near Lanark, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, 1966- Canterbury sundial, Canterbury, England, University of Kent, near Rutherford College, 1972 UNDA wall, Schiff, Windflower, Stuttgart, Germany, Max Planck Institute, 1975- anteboreum, Yorkshire, England, private garden sundial, Liège, Belgium, University of Liège, 1976 sundial, Bonn, Germany, British Embassy, 1979 Five Columns for Kröller-Müller, Otterlo, Holland, Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, 1982 a basket of lemons, a plough of the Roman sort, two oval plaques, Pistoia, Italy, Villa Celle, 1984 Vienna, Austria, Schweizergarten, 1985 Brittany, France, Domain de Kerguehennec, 1986 Eindhoven, Holland, Van Abbemuseum, 1986 A Remembrance of Annette, Münster, Germany, Uberwasser Cemetery, 1987 UNDA, with Sue Finlay and Nicholas Sloan, San Diego, California, USA, Stuart Collection, 1987 Furka Pass, Switzerland, 1987 Strasbourg, France, Musée d'Art Moderne or Musée des Beaux-Arts, 1988 Grove of Silence, Vincennes, with Sue Finlay and Nicholas Sloan, Forest of Dean, England, 1988 Frechen-Bahem, Germany, Haus Bitz, 1988 Preston, England, Harris Museum and Art Gallery, 1989 Cologne, Germany, Ungers Private Library, 1990 bridge columns, Broomielaw, Glasgow, Scotland, 1990 Ovid wall, Aphrodite herm, tree-plaque, capital, Luton, England, Stockwood Park, 1991 tree-plaque, Hennef, Germany, private garden, 1991 Lübeck, Germany, Overbeck-Gesellschaft, 1991 Karlsruhe, Germany, Baden State Library, 1991 Dudley, England, The Leasowes, 1992 Six Milestones, The Hague-Zoetermeer, Holland, 1992 Paris, France, private garden, 1993 Frankfurt/Main, Germany, Schröder Münchmeyer Hengst & pergola, tree-plaque, others, Grevenbroich, Germany, Schlosspark, 1995 Foxgloves, with Peter Coates, Durham, UK, Botanical Gardens, 1996 Shell Research Centre Thornton with Pia Simig for Latz+Partner, Chester, UK, 1997- paving, eight benches, tree plaque, with Peter Coates, Serpentine Gallery, Kensington Gardens, London, UK, 1997 Fleur de l'Air, with Pia Simig, Peter Coates, Volkmar Herre, Harry Gilonis, John Dixon Hunt, Wild Hawthorn Press, Provence, France, 1997-2003 Et In Arcadia Ego, with Peter Coates for Stroom, The Hague, Netherlands, 1998 The Present Order, with Peter Coates, for Barcelona City Council, supported by The British Council, Barcelona, Spain, Park Güell, 1999 with Peter Coates, Hamburg, Germany, 1999 benches, with Peter Coates, Erfurt, Germany, Erfurt Federal Labour Court, 1999 Cythera, with Peter Coates, Lanarkshire, Scotland, Hamilton Palace grounds, 2000 with Peter Coates, Luxembourg, Casino Luxembourg, 2002 with Peter Coates, Neanderthal, Germany, 2002 with Peter Coates, Carrara, Italy, Carrara International Biennale, 2002 Basel, Switzerland, with Peter Coates, 2003 with Peter Coates, St. Gallan, Switzerland, private residence, 2004 L'Idylle des Cerises with Pia Maria Simig (with Peter Coates), Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland, preparatory drawings and sculpture, 2005-

Bibliography

Abrioux, Yves: Ian Hamilton Finlay. London 1992 Zdenek, Felix/ Simig, Pia: Ian Hamilton Finlay. Ostfildern 1995 Finlay, Ian Hamilton: The Dancers Inherit the Party and Glasgow Beasts, An' a Burd. Finlay - Article publié le 13 Mai 1989 Par PLENEL EDWY Source : http://www.lemonde.fr Finlay, Ian Hamilton (September 2004). Ian Hamilton Finlay Maritime Works: Notes for Teachers (PDF). Gillanders, Robin, Alec Finlay, Ian Hamilton Finlay (18 May 1999).