Bronze Age Gold from Wales
Base Camp
FINNEMORE, Peter (Peter Finnemore graduated in 1987 in Fine Art Photography at Glasgow School of Art, Scotland. In 1994 he received an MFA in Photography at the University of Michigan, USA. He lives and works in Llanelli, west Wales. His recent exhibitions include, University of Michigan Galleries, USA, Street Level Gallery, Glasgow and Cambridge Darkroom Gallery, England. In 2005 he represented Wales at the Venice Biennale of Art and was awarded the Gold Medal for Fine Art at the 2005 National Eistedfodd.
Peter Finnemore’s poetic and multi-layered art draws upon his close attachment to his home place in rural west Wales, and tests the boundaries of the ordinary. Finnemore locates his practice within and around visual explorations on the themes of Welsh identity; it’s history, culture, landscape and it’s psychological and spiritual nuances.
Finnemore’s films have evolved from his stills photographic works for which he is well known and which in themselves synthesised performance activities, tableaux and the photographic document.
The site of his films is his family garden and home space. Although these are ordinary spaces they are infused with theatrical and transformative possibilities and a number of different ideas are explored including ritualised and existential movement, the creation of visual koans, cultural enquiry, cosmology, humour and pathos.)
'Base Camp is a series of 31 short films made by Finnemore in and around the family home in the Gwendraeth Valley in west Wales. The films establish the garden as an anarchic and irreverent "territory". We are encouraged to think of ideas of home, nation, and our place and the wider world. This body of work won Finnemore the Gold Medal at the National Eisteddfod in 2005. In the same year he represented Wales at the Venice Biennale.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 28141
Creation/Production
FINNEMORE, Peter
Date:
Acquisition
Purchase, 17/3/2006
Measurements
Techniques
DVD Projection
Material
Film
Location
Gallery 22
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