Peter Finnemore’s photo-artwork revolves around the idea of ‘making visible’. In this informal presentation he will be discussing the evolution of a range of core photographic ideas that inform his practice.
Finnemore is a unique and significant presence in the arena of contemporary fine art photographic practice. He is noted for his long-term photo art projects on the human condition, generational memory, home, nature, culture, history and post-industrial landscapes.
His working practice combines a fluid exchange between the language of photography and fine art sensibilities. These artworks are manifested as photographs (analogue & digital), video art, installations, the artist’s book, text art, performance and assemblages on canvas
Finnemore's artworks belie a singular vision which occupies an alchemic, mytho-poetic territory between matter-of-fact documentation and lyrical transformation / magic realism. Marked by critical intelligence, visual dexterity, pathos and trickster humour, his images operate simultaneously on a number of levels, subjectively examining cultural and historical forces, whilst occupying the wide emotional and intellectual spectrum from the profound to the absurd. His recent photo-art book project – Looking For Signs, set in India is an ambitious 300-page subjective psycho-geographic mapping of self and place.
A graduate from the Glasgow School of Art and the University of Michigan, Finnemore represented Wales at the 1997 Venice Biennale. His artwork is in a number of public collections, including; Arts Council Collection, Princeton Museum of Art and Chrysler Art Centre. He lives and works in Wales and is currently Research Fellow at USW.