PETER FINNEMORE Senior Lecturer

Peter Finnemore studied at the University of Michigan, Glasgow School of Art and at the Dyfed College of Art. His exhibition career began in 1985 with the New Contemporaries exhibition at the ICA in London. He has continued to exhibit regularly nationally and internationally, including representing Wales at the Venice Biennale in 2005. He has won a number of contemporary art awards including the gold medal at the National Eisteddfod of Wales and the Oriel Mostyn Open. His artworks are in a number of private and public collections including, The Art Museum, Princeton University, USA, The Arts Council Collection at the Hayward Gallery, London, Arts Council of Scotland, National Museum of Wales, Cardiff and Argos Center for Art and Media, Brussels.

His research is practice based and incorporates photography, digital media, video, performance, installation, writing, curatorship and the archive. He is best known for his ongoing 25 year long project which explores the home place as a site for creative enquiry. This has been exhibited in several forms including the exhibition and publication of Gwendraeth House (2000), Zen Gardener (2004), Veils and Voids (2010) and Everyday (The Silent Village 2010). He joined the staff at Swansea Metropolitan University in 2005. He teaches within the photography department and is a regular contributor to the fine art department.

Finnemore is in his second tenure as Visiting Professor in Photography at the University of Derby and an External Supervisor in Fine Art at the Glasgow School of Art. He is also a member of Gorsedd yr Beirdd Ynis Prydain.

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Academic and Professional Practice

2011-2015: External examiner in Photography, Glasgow School of

Art, Scotland

2010 – 2013: Visiting Professor in Photography, University of Derby

2010 – External Observer, University of WalesTrinity St David,

Carmarthen

2010 – Current: Aelod Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol.

2010 – Board member SAFLE, Cardiff

2009 – 2012: External Supervisor for PhD candidate Geraint

Davies, University of Wales, Newport: Geometries of Harmony:

Visual, Mathematical and Linguistic resonances associated with

Dürer’s Melencolia I.

2007-09: Panel Diwydiannau Creadigol/Creative Industries

Panel (Centre for Welsh Medium Higher Education)

 

Selected Exhibitions, Publications and Presentations

2011

Without Words / Heb Eiriau – The photographs of Geoff Charles, National Eisteddfod of Wales, Wrexham. ISBN: 978-1-86225-096-6

co-curated with Russell Roberts, in partnership with National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth and the National Eisteddfod of Wales

Inaugural Exhibition, The Welsh National Museum of Art, Cardiff (group show)

Project Object, Oriel Myrddin, Carmarthen. Solo show and performance

2010

We have the Mirrors, We have the Plans, Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno, Wales. Group show and catalogue, ISBN: 9780906860632

The Silent Village, Turner House, Penarth, Wales. Touring group show and catalogue, ISBN: 978-1-872771-81-6

To the Buddha – veils and voids, two person show with (Jonathan Anderson), St David’s Hall, Cardiff, Wales

The Architectural Review Volume 1357, London. Selected by Rut Bleese Luxemburg

Artists presentation Digital Dialogues symposium, University of Derby, England

Keynote speaker, presentation entitled Dark Matters – Wales and the world

Lens Photography Festival, National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth

Wales Venice Symposium, presentation entitled Mein Camp

Taliesin Arts Centre, Swansea, Wales

2009

Once Upon a Time, an international symposium of public interventions, The Maltings, Farnham, England

Recent Acquisitions Glynn Vivian Art Gallery and Museum, Swansea, Wales (solo show)

2008

Bad Joke, Riga Art Space, Riga, Latvia (international group show)

Presentation and screening Transgressions Photography Symposium, organized by the University of Wales, Newport. Riverfront Theatre, Newport

Artfutures 2008, Bloomsberg Art Space, London, England (group show)

2007 

Sequences, Real Time Festival, Laborious, Reykjavik, Iceland (solo show-

international performance festival)

In Your Backyard. : New Housing in the City, Suburb and Country,

Lynch Architects Pavilion, Ideal Home Exhibition, London (commissioned installation film)

London Video Archives, Festival de Videoarte del Mercado de las Flores,

Madrid, Spain

Bad Joke, Center of Contemporary Arts, Tallinn, Estonia. (international group show)

Presentation and screening Transgressions Photography Symposium, organized by the University of Wales, Newport. Riverfront Theatre, Newport

Next Level – Art /Photography / Ideas (magazine) Edition 12 - Glasgow, Creative Scape Limited, London, England

Artist’s Presentation Snow College, Ephraim, Utah, USA

Artist’s Presentation Brigham Young University, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

2006

Gstaad Film Festival, Gstaad, Switzerland

Short Turns, Argos, Brussels, Belgium

Between Us, National Newark Building, Newark, New Jersey, USA

(international group show)

Aqua - Site-Ations Art International, Deositos de Pignatelli, Zaragoza, Spain (international site specific group show)

Humor Me, H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, USA

(international group show)

Fotograf (magazine) New Staged Photography, issue no7, Vol 5. Medica Publishing, Brno, Czech Republic

2005

Somewhere Else, 51st International Art Festival, Venice Biennale, The Ex Birreria, Giudecca, Venice, Italy

Loop / Off Loop, Video Art Festival, Espai Ubu, Barcelona, Spain

Over & Over, Again & Again, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania (group show)

Project Jedi, Gallery Boreas, Brooklyn, NY, USA (solo show)

Project Jedi, Gallery 40000, Chicago, USA.

2004

Zen Gardener, Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno, Wales, UK (solo touring show)

ISBN: 1-906-98057-1

2003

Creative Wales Award, Arts Council of Wales

2002

Source Magazine, issue 32, Autumn 2002

2001

"Wales" - Unauthorized Versions, House of Croatian Artists, Zagreb, Croatia (group show)

Recent Acquisitions, The Art Museum, University of Princeton, Princeton, USA

2000

Gwendraeth House Ffotogallery, Cardiff, Wales (touring solo show)

ISBN: 1-872771-70-X