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Ian Hamilton Finlay was born in Nassau, the Bahamas in 1925. He returned to Glasgow in early childhood and briefly attended Glasgow School of Art
He moved to London, did military service and then returned to Scotland where he worked as a shepherd. He published short stories and plays in the mid 1950s and moved to Edinburgh at the end of the 1950s. He founded the Wild Hawthorn Press, with Jesse McGuffe in 1961, initially publishing work by contemporary poets and artists and eventually exclusively by Finlay
In 1964 he began to produce poems designed to be set in an environment and in 1966 moved to Stonypath with Sue Finlay and began to create the garden there. In 1978 he began “Five Year Hellenisation Plan” for Stonypath Garden , renamed “Little Sparta”. Ian Hamilton Finlay has worked on permanent landscaped installations, with the collaboration of other contributors, in many parts of Europe and the USA and has exhibited world-wide since his first exhibition at the Axiom Gallery, London in 1968
He has been awarded honorary Doctorates by the University of Aberdeen and Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, and was shortlisted for the Turner Prize, Tate Gallery, London in 1985. He has published numerous books and booklets, cards and folding cards, poems and prints and his work is documented in a number of exhibitions and monographs
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Stepmother married to Ernest Park, St Paul's College student 1928 - 1930
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Neville Gabie was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1959. He was the Lead Artist for the Year of the Artist projects, Forest of Dean Sculpture Trail 2000 - 2001. This project resulted from a Year of the Artists residency undertaken by Neville Gabie in the autumn 2000 and spring/ summer of 2001. It was realised with the financial assistance of South West Arts, the Forestry Commission and Arnolfini Collection Trust and the co-ordination by Bruce Allan and Samantha Wilkinson. The project was built upon a permanent work which sees the volume of a tree represented in a variety of states – as a permanent installation in the forest – alongside four event based pieces that were documented and presented in printed form
Recent exhibitions and projects include: Solo Exhibition, Civic Gallery Johannesburg 1998; MOMART Artist in Residence. Tate Gallery, Liverpool 1999-2000; Solo Exhibition Hales Galley, London 2000; Solo Exhibition Kirkby Gallery, with Knowsely Art Service and Liverpool Football Club Museum 2001, “POSTS” published Penguin Books 1999; Saskawa International Photography Prize. Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography 2001
Whilst Artist in Residence at the Tate Gallery. Liverpool, the focus of the work was based around areas of urban regeneration. In an on-going project entitled “An A-Z of Empty Spaces” Neville began to consider the spaces and places, once homes and now left vacant. The objects left behind and notions of “home and belonging”. The tower block, Kenley Close was one such building
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Granddaughter of Kathleen Winifred Rowles neé Brown, St Mary's College student c.1921 - 1923, and Frank Rowles, St Paul's College student 1921 - 1923
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