Artem Lumen Painting

Peter Finnemore is a unique and significant presence in the arena of contemporary fine art practise, he has a 35 year track record within international practice that includes a holistic exchange between between ideas and medias. Working across the platforms of photographic art, video, multi-media installation, performance, text art, collage, works on canvas, 3D assemblages and artist books. Originating from existential enquiry, he seeks to "make visible". With a background in fine art Photography, Finnemore’s photographic projects (analogue and digital) are noted for their long-term exploration on the human condition in relation to generational memory, nature, culture, history and spirituality. These project portfolios include – Gwendraeth House, Zen Gardener, The Silent Village, Lesson 56 – Wales, Base Camp, Cornerstone, Between the Lines, Mined Mind, Looking For Signs etc. Marked by visual dexterity, pathos and trickster humour, his art operates simultaneously on a number of levels, subjectively examining cultural and historical forces, whilst occupying the wide emotional & intellectual spectrum from the profound to the absurd. This restless experimentation with the possibilities of photographic art, has led to an understanding of how the language of photography bleeds into and informs the making of art and narrative in other studio medias and processes. His current explorations of materiality, process, mark making on paper and canvas and free-standing assemblages reflect this. His first major exhibition was in 1986, where he participated in the New Contemporaries exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London. He has since exhibited in solo and group exhibitions both nationally and internationally, including representing Wales at the 51st Venice Biennale (2005). His latest photo-art book project – Looking For Signs, set in India is a is an ambitious 300 page subjective psychogeographic mapping of self and place. Major published works also include Gwendraeth House (Ffotogallery, 2000) and Zen Gardener (Oriel Mostyn, 2004). Album / Silent Village (Ffotogallery, 2010). He is included in the major international photographic book survey - Photography Today, Contemporary Photography since 1960 (ed. Mark Durden Thames & Hudson, 2015).