Alec Finlay Artist, poet and publisher, based in Newcastle upon Tyne. Websites www.alecfinlay.com www.renga-platform.co.uk AWARDS String of Pearls, Dysart Artworks, Winner best work of art in the public realm, Scottish Design Awards, 2007 Northern Rock, 3 year grant award to platform projcets, (2006-08) Scottish Design Awards (Best Typography, Best Book, Chariman’s Award), pocketbooks, 2000 2006–08 Specimen Colony, public artwork / group exhibition and book, Bluecoat Gallery (2008) lodestar, Kielder Partnership, artist residency & Star Observatory, (Kielder, 2007-08) windmillmindwill, artist residency and book, NaREC (National Centre for Renewable Energy, Blyth, 2007-08) Harry Smith Anthology (Remix), ALT.GALLERY (Newcastle upon Tyne, 2007) Sirens: An Evolution from Water, through Water, to Water, 66 East: Centre for Urban Culture, (Amsterdam, 18 March–22 April 2007) Kiosk, ARTISTS' SPACE, (New York City, March–April, 2007) INKUBATOR, group exhibition, Edinburgh Printmakers (March 2007) In their own words, group exhibition, End Gallery, Sheffield, (opens March – April, 2007) Waterlog, The Sunken Bell, group exhibition, Castle Museum/SCVA, The Collection (Norwich, Lincoln, 2007) two wheat fields seeded with a poppy-poem, public commission, book & web-book, Milton Keynes Gallery (2006-07) floating island garden, exhibition and web-book commission, Northumbria Coast AONB (2006-08) Sky-Field, public artwork, Noses’s Point, Seaham, County Durham (2006-07) Mesostic laboratorium, book & web-book, Science Learning Centre North East (March 2007) Three Estates Renga (with Gavin Wade), book and film (with Ravi Duprees), renga word-map, commission for Birmingham City Council for the Three Estates, King’s Norton (2006-07) 2006 CUBECIRCLE, performance (with Dan Civico), platforms 000006, Waygood, Newcastle International Art-Path-Laboratory, artist project, Darmstadt, Germany. Word Order, Concrete Poetry and its influence, group exhibition, The Changing Room, Stirling. International Edible Art Award, artist project and exhibition, Village Bakery gallery, Melmerby. string of pearls, public art commission, Dysart, Fife Ball Im Kopf, group exhibition, Museum Kunst Gebergwerke, Hamburg Killhope Leadmining Museum, artist residency, Killhope, North Pennines folio/series//book/series, exhibition, Scottish Poetry Library, Edinburgh 2005 EAST 05, The Black Tulip, exhibition, Norwich Hill of Streams, public artwork commission, Cairnhead Community Forest, Dumfries and Galloway siren, performance and book, with Chris Watson, published by bookscapes Three Rivers Crossword, public artwork and book, Nexus, Newcastle, published by bookscapes Soapsuds and Whitewash, exhibition and public artwork commission, Turner Contemporary, Margate The stars before we heard them into conversations: performance, Tate Modern, London Ludwig Wittgenstein: There Where You Are Not, exhibition and book (with Jeremy Millar and Guy Moreton), John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, published by Black Dog 2004–05 Crossword: public artwork commissioned by The Public, West Bromwich worldwiderubberstandcirclepoemletterbox, global artist project (2004–) Dance Trace: public artwork, commission from Dance City, Newcastle Tweed: public artwork, commission Tweed Rivers Interpretation Project, Scottish Borders Wind Blown Cloud archive: archive & exhibition: Houston, Gateshead, Galway & Edinburgh Your Name Here, exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh Revolver, group touring exhibition, Witte de With, Rotterdam; ICA London, Istanbul Biennial Wind Blown Cloud, web project, www.stot.com 2003–05 1,2 / camellia / fall, letterboxing, Field Guide, Propagator, artist residency, Yorkshire Sculpture Park (2003-05) Woodland Platform & Xylotheque, public artwork, the Hidden Gardens, Tramway, Glasgow Inset (Atopia), exhibition, Blaffer Gallery, Houston, USA Outside of a Dog: (Artists’ Books), BALTIC, Gateshead Right of Way, exhibition (with Guy Moreton) Galway Arts Centre, Galway, Eire 2002–03 B.Open, Labanotation, exhibition & artist residency, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead Wind Blown Cloud, artist project, Brighton Photo Biennial 1990–2007 Artist Publishing Artist publisher: conceived, edited and published bookscapes (2005-06); conceived, edited and published pocketbooks series (1999-2002). Conceived, edited and published Morning Star (1990-2006), publishing projects with Sol LeWitt, Robert Creeley, Ian McKeever, Hans Waanders, Callum Innes, Simon Patterson, Lawrence Weiner, Pavel Buchler and Richard Tuttle. 1990–2007 Selected Publications Eye on Europe, group exhibition catalogue, (The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2007) Thought-Cloud Jotter (Science Learning Centre, Durham 2006) Siren, (with Chris Watson, platform projects/bookscapes, 2006) Dance Trace Dance Music (with Andrew Hodson, Dance City & platform projects/bookscapes, 2006) Ludwig Wittgenstein: There Where You Are Not, with Guy Moreton, Michael Nedo (Black Dog, 2005) Some Versions of Landscape: Avant-Garde English Landscape (YSP, West Bretton, 2005) Wind Blown Cloud (Rizzoli, New York, 2005) Mesostic herbarium (platform projects, 2004) BALTIC YEARBOOK, catalogue (BALTIC, Gateshead, 2003) Bynames (platform projects, 2003) Football Haiku (with Guy Moreton, pocketbooks 2002) Labanotation: the Archie Gemmill goal (with Robin Gillanders, pocketbooks, 2002) Justified Sinners (with Ross Birrell, pocketbooks, 2002) pocketbooks series Atoms of Delight (2000) Love for Love (with John Burnside, 2000) Without Day (2000) Wish I Was Here (with Kevin MacNeil, 2000) The Way to Cold Mountain (2001) The Order of Things (with Ken Cockburn, 2001) Justified Sinners (with Ross Birrell, 2002) Football Haiku (with Guy Moreton, 2002) Labanotation: the Archie Gemmill goal (with Robin Gillanders, 2002) Anthologies Hours (WAX366, 2002) BALTIC YEARBOOK (BALTIC, 2003) The Book of the Book (Granary Books, 2001) Goldfish Suppers (Edinburgh City Council, 2004) Cuirt Annual 2003 (Galway Arts Centre, 2003) Poetry Collections football moon (BALTIC, 2002) Poezie bez hranic (Oloumouc Festival, 2004) Small Press Series Wind Blown Clouds Verse Chain (2002) Bynames (2003) Mesostic herbarium (2004) Friday 8 May, Alexander & Susan Maris (2004) turning toward living (2004). Irish 2 (with Guy Moreton, 2003) The Book of Questions Bookscapes series THREE RIVERS CROSSWORD (with Sandy Balfour, 2006) Siren, (with Chris Watson, 2006) Dance Trace Dance Music (with Andrew Hodson, 2006) Journey to the Lower World (Marcus Coates, 2006)