Ian Hamilton Finlay: Works on Paper

This exhibition celebrates the centenary of the extraordinary Scottish artist, poet and gardener Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925-2006) with a selection of his prints, books and cards. Finlay first found widespread acclaim as a concrete poet in the 1960s and his work soon developed into more visual forms including printmaking, sculpture, architecture and his celebrated ‘art garden’ at Little Sparta. His wide-ranging work, often made in collaboration with other artists, writers and typographers, explores multiple themes including fishing boats, classical Greece and Rome, the French Revolution and the German military in World War Two.

Drawing on the University’s outstanding collection of nearly 300 works by Finlay, the exhibition draws you into an enticing but dangerous world of prints and poems, sails and sundials, gardens and guillotines.

The exhibition is open Monday-Friday 9.30am-7pm (last entry 5pm). Find out more about the University of Dundee Museums.

Special Events:

Friday 7 November, 3.15pm - guided tour with poet and academic Dr Heather H Yeung

Tuesday 18 November, 5.30pm - special screening of a new film about Finlay, The Boat in the Writing Room 

Wednesday 26 November, 5.30pm - Poem/Print creative workshop - book here

Main image: Memory, folded card by Ian Hamilton Finlay and Ron Costley, 1987 (copyright the artists' estates)

Header image: Catameringue, print by Ian Hamilton Finlay and Peter Grant, 1970 (copyright the artists' estates)