Finlay Abbott Ellwood (b.1996) graduated from The Slade School of Fine Art-London in 2018 and since has been living and working inLondon.
Finlay uses painting as a way to consolidate a quiet but perpetually present feeling that there is a multitude of natural connections within the vectors of the world. Painting for Finlay can be thought of as visual analogy, which is the most efficient language for highlighting some of the nuanced links between the subjects he is interested in. Some are listed below:
The effect of chance on prosperity; in relation to seed dispersal, the syntax of space, heterotopias, sets of relations within the cellular structures of organisms and societies, Sigils, mimicry, Minimal Intervention as a more soft approach to thinking about landscape, infographics as teaching aids and their implications, the hidden intellect of naivety within children, private vs meta sign-systems, how we respond to idiosyncratic events and how this fluctuates in relation to different bands of society, intuitive form and object recognition within animals and humans.
Selected Exhibitions
2024 SYMPOIESIS
Group exhibition - Izena, London
2023 Beating the Bounds
Group exhibition - Inspection Pit, East Harting
2023 Finlay Abbott Ellwood & Enzo Medeiros
Group exhibition - The Pumphouse Gallery, London
2022/3 Babele
Group exhibition - Spazio Musa, Italy
2022 The only thing more slippery than an elbow.
Group exhibition - Auction House, Cornwall.
2021 Late Works 4
Group exhibition - Gallery 46, London.
2021 Mathew Burrows Selects
Group exhibition - Unit 1 Gallery, London.
2021 Great Conversations
Group exhibition - The Koppel Project, London.
2021 Casting The Runes
Group exhibition - 108 Fleet Street, London
2021 LETH
Group exhibition - Tremenheere Sculpture Garden, Cornwall
2019 Slade Undergraduate Degree Show
Group exhibition - The Slade school of art, UCL, London
2019 Sixteen Steps
Group exhibition - 35 church street, London
2019 EQUINOXY
Group exhibition - Sam Bassett’s studio, Cornwall
2019 Rotunda
Solo exhibition - Porthmeor studios, Cornwall
2019 SOLFORCE
Group exhibition - Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens, Cornwall
2019 London Art Fair
Group exhibition - Emanuel Von Bayer, London
2019 Ideas Unsaid, Then Forgotten
Solo Show - Emanuel Von Bayer Cabernet, Online
2018 237 Brompton Road
Group exhibition - 237 Brompton road, London
2018 TFAF Print Fair
Group exhibition - Emanuel Von Bayer, Maastricht
2017 Early Works
Group exhibition - Vardaxoglou, Marylebone, London
2016 KNOTS
Solo exhibition - London fields gallery space, London
RESIDENCIES
2019- Kestle Barton Cornwall Workshop, run by Teresa Gleadowe, Andy Holden and Mira Calix - intensive working retreat for artists, curators and writers.
Finlay Abbott Ellwood (b.1996) uses painting as a way to consolidate a quiet but perpetually present feeling that there is a multitude of natural connections within the vectors of the world. Painting for Finlay, can be thought of as visual analogy, which is the most efficient language for highlighting some of the nuanced links between the subjects he is interested in. Some are listed below:
The effect of chance on prosperity; in relation to seed dispersal, the syntax of space, heterotopias, sets of relations within the cellular structures of organisms and societies, Sigils, mimicry, Minimal Intervention as a more soft approach to thinking about landscape, infographics as teaching aids and their implications, the hidden intellect of naivety within children, private vs meta sign-systems, how we respond to idiosyncratic events and how this fluctuates in relation to different bands of society, intuitive form and object recognition within animals and humans.
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