Alec Finlay (born Scotland, 1966) lives and works in Edinburgh. He is an internationally-recognised artist and poet whose work crosses over a range of media and forms. Much of Finlay’s work considers how we as a culture, or cultures, relate to landscape and ecology. Through permanent and temporary interventions, integrative web-based projects, and publications, Finlay weaves together generous experiential works, often collaborative, sometimes mapped directly onto the landscape, embedded socially or accessed online. Recently Finlay’s work has focussed on place-awareness and ecopoetics.

Image: ‘conspectus’, Alec Finlay, 2015, commissioned by Environmental Art Festival; photography by Jan Hogarth.