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Ian Hamilton Finlay Biography
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1925 |
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Born in Nassau, Bahamas. Moved to Glasgow, Scotland as a child
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1961 |
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Founded The Wild Hawthorn Press with Jessie McGuffie
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1962 |
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Founded the periodical ‘Poor. Old. Tired. Horse.’offset at the Wild Hawthorn Press.
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1966 |
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Moved to Stonypath in the Southern Uplands of Scotland, where he immediately set about creating the world-famous garden ‘Little Sparta’
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1979 - 1984 |
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Founded the Saint – Just Vigilantes and planned and took part in the First Battle of Little Sparta, February 4, 1983 (between Strathclyde Region and Little Sparta)
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1985 |
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Shortlisted for the Turner Prize, Tate Gallery, London
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1987 |
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Awarded Honorary Doctorate by the University of Aberdeen
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1993 |
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Awarded Honorary Doctorate from the Heriot-Watt University, Glasgow
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1999 |
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Awarded honorary professorship from the University of Dundee
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2002 |
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Awarded CBE in New Year’s Honours
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2002 |
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Awarded Scottish Horticultural Medal by the Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society
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2003 |
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Scottish Arts Council Creative Scotland Award
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2008
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Liberty, Terror and Virtue Revisited, Millais Gallery, Southampton Art Gallery Collection (solo)
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2007
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The Sonnet is a Sewing-Machine for the Monostich, Victoria Miro Gallery, London (solo)
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2007
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You Silently: Image – Object – Text, University Gallery, University of Essex, Colchester, UK
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2005
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Tate Triennial 2006: New British Art, Tate Britain, London
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2005
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Sentences, Inverleith House, Edinburgh (solo)
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2005
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L’idylle des Cerises, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh (solo)
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2004
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Works on Paper, 1968 – 2000, UBS Gallery, New York (solo)
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2004
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Vessels, The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago (solo)
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2004
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Art and the garden, Tate Britain, London
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2004
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Bang, Colgate University, Hamilton, USA
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2003
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Idylls and Interventions, Victoria Miro Gallery (solo)
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2002
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Maritime Works, Tate St. Ives, Cornwall: Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York (solo)
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2002
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Ian Hamilton Finlay, Ingleby Gallery (solo)
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2001
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Souvenirs – Postcards by Ian Hamilton Finlay, The Scottish National Gallery of Art (solo)
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2001
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Ian Hamilton Finlay, Stampa, Basel (solo)
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2000
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Garden Works, Nolan/ Eckman Gallery, New York (solo)
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2000
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Ian Hamilton Finlay/ Richard Tuttle, Stampa, Basel (solo)
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2000
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Nature over again after Poussin, McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, Ontario (solo)
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2000
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Encounters, National Gallery, London
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1999
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Heads will Roll, Victoria Miro Gallery, London
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1999
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Museé d’Art Contemporain de Montreal, Canada
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1999
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La Biennalle de Montreal, Centre International d’Art
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1999
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Variation on Several Themes, Joan Miro Foundation, Barcelona, Spain (solo)
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1998
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Modern Antiquities, Landesmuseum, Mainz, Germany (solo)
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1998
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Odor Suavitatis, Victoria Miro Gallery, London (solo)
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1998
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Les Capteurs de rêves, 1re Biennale de Montréal, commissaire; Claude Gosselin
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1997
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Material Culture, Hayward Gallery, Londres
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1997
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Grenzgänger, Deutscher Sparkassen Verlag, Stuttgart
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1997
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The Pleasure of Reading, John Gibson Gallery, New York
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1997
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Wortwechsel, Künstlerwerkstatt Lothringer Str., Münich
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1997
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Buro Sophia Ungers, Cologne, Germany (solo)
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1997
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Wild Hawthorn Press, Academie Beelende Kunsten, Maastricht, the Netherlands (solo)
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1997
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Prints 1963 - 1997, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany (solo)
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1997
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Stadsgalerij, Heerlen, the Netherlands (solo)
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1997
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Galerie Stadtpark, Krems, Austria (solo)
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1996
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Grains of salt, Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno, Wales (solo)
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1996
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Reef-Points, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York (solo)
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1996
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Schwere-Los - Skulpturen, Landesmuseum Linz
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1996
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Public Works, Peninsula & Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
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1995
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Wege der Birke, Suisse
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1995
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Where is Abel, thy brother?, The Zacheta Gallery, Varsovie
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1995
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Lesen im Buch der Kunst, Library of Baden, Karlsruhe
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1995
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The Green Room, Sydney Gardens, Bath
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1995
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Paperworks, Stampa, Basel (solo)
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1995
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Works: Pure and Political, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany (solo)
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1995
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Stones & Leaves, The Houghton Library, Harvard University, Boston (solo)
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1995
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70th birthday show, Victoria Miro Gallery, London (solo)
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1994
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3 Sailboats, Victoria Miro Gallery, London (solo)
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1994
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Icons and Proposals, Laumeier Sculpture Park and Museum, St. Louis (solo)
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1994
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Streiflichter: Fragments from the French Revolution, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York (solo)
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1994
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East of Eden, Museum Schloss Mosigkau, Dessau-Mosigkau
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1994
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Translokation, Haus der Architektur, Graz
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1994
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Das Jahrhundert des Multiple, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
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1993
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Konfrontation, Museum Moderner Kunst, Groningen, Netherlands
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1993
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Die Sprache der Kunst, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
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1993
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Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt/ Main
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1993
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Skultur statt Denkmal, Galerie Fricke, Dusseldorf
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1993
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Words…, Galerie Sfeir- Semler at the Galerie Jergen Becker, Hamburg
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1993
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Wildwachsende Blumen, Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany (solo)
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1993
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CAYC Buenos Aires (solo)
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1993
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The Sonnet is a Sewing Machine for the Monostich, Crawford Arts Centre, Scotland (solo)
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1993
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12/ 1794, Galerie Busche, Berlin (solo)
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1993
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Inscriptions, Massimo Minini Gallery, Brescia, Italy (solo)
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1993
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A Proposal for the Leasowes and other works, MBC Dudley, England (solo)
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1992
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10 Maquettes for neo-classical structures, Victoria Miro Gallery, London (solo)
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1992
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Instruments of the Revolution and other works, ICA, London (solo)
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1992
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City Art Gallery, Leeds (solo)
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1992
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Verzamelde Werken, Centrum Beeldende Kunst, Groningen, Netherlands
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1992
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Three British Book Artists, Mandeville Gallery, University of California, San Diego
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1992
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Force Sight, Schloss Presteneck, Neuenstadt, Stein am Kocher, Germany
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1992
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Lux Europe, Lus Eurpae trust, Edinburgh
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1991
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Gulfs and Wars, Kunstverein Friedrichshafen (solo)
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1991
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Malerisamling Lillehammer, Norway (solo)
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1991
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Galerie Stadtpark und Autoren, Krems, Austria (solo)
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1991
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Ideologische Ausserungen, Frankfurther Kunstverein, Frankfurt/ Main (solo)
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1991
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Pastorales, Overbeck- Gesellschaft, Lubeck (solo)
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1991
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Definitions, Galerie Sfeir- Semler, Kiel (solo)
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1991
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The Poor Fisherman, Talbot Rice Centre, Scotland (solo)
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1991
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Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia (solo)
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1991
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Tate Gallery, Liverpool (solo)
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1991
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Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut (solo)
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1991
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Ian Hamilton Finlay & The Wild Hawthorn Press, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh (solo)
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1991
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A Wartime Garden, Galleria Victoria Miro, Florence (solo)
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1991
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Rhetorical Image, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
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1991
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Night Lines, Centraalmuseum, Utrecht
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1991
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Virtual Realities, Traveling Gallery Exhibition, Scotland
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1990
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Allegorie, Galerie Sfeir- Demmle, Kiel
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1990
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Glasgow’s Great British Art Exhibition
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1990
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Von der Natur in der Kunst, Exhibition of Wiener Festwoche 1990, Messepalast Halle E, Vienna
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1990
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Poesis, Graeme Murray Gallery, Edinburgh
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1990
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British Art Now: A Subjective View, Stagaya Art Museum, Fukuoka Art Museum, etc. Japan
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1990
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Galerie Schedle & Arpagas, Zurich (solo)
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1990
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Kunsthalle Basel (solo)
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1990
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ACTA – Galleria, Milano (solo)
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1990
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Stampa, Basel (solo)
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1990
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Christine Burgin, New York (solo)
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1990
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Galerie Jule Kewenig, Frechen/ Bachem (solo)
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1990
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Idylls, Victoria Miro Gallery, London (solo)
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1990
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The Ocean and the Revolution, Gallery Burnett Miller, Los Angeles (solo)
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1990
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Ian Hamilton Finlay and The Wild Hawthorn Press 1958 – 1990, Frith Street Gallery, London (solo)
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1990
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Holzwege, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen (solo)
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1990
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A Wartime Garden, Graeme Murray Gallery, Edinburgh (solo)
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1989
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Galerie Wernicke, Stuttgart (solo)
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1989
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Stadtische Galerie am Markt, Schwabisch- Hall (solo)
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1989
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Kellie Lodging Gallery, Pittenween, Scotland (solo)
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1989
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Paperworks, Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna (solo)
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1989
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1789 – 1794, Kunsthalle Hamburg (solo)
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1989
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Works, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny Castle (solo)
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1989
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Bicentenary Celebrations, Kelly Lodging Gallery, Pittweem, Scotland (solo)
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1989
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Hier wird getanzt, XPO Galerie, Hamburg
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1989
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British Sculpture 1960-88, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerpen
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1989
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Prospect ’89, Frankfurter Kunstverein/Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
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1989
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Buhnen Stucke, Kunstverein Munchen
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1989
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Freiheit- Gleichheit – Bruderlichkeit, Germanisches National museum, Nurnberg Stampa Basel
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1989
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2000 Jahre –Die Gegenwart der Vergangenheit, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn
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1988
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Pyramiden, Galerie Jule Kewenig, Frechen/Bachem
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1988
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Art in the Garden, Garden Festival, Glasgow
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1988
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Starlit Waters, British Sculpture 1968-88, Tate Gallery Liverpool
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1988
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Camouflage, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York
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1988
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Musee d’Art Contemporain, Dunkerque (solo)
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1988
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An Exhibition on Two Themes, Galerie Jule Kewenig, Frechen/Bachem (solo)
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1988
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Michael Klein Gallery, New York (solo)
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1988
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Inter Artes et Naturam, Victoria Miro Gallery, London (solo)
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1988
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Proposals, Museum of Contemporary Art, Dunkirk (solo)
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1988
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Brittannica, 30 Ans de Sculpture, Le Havre
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1988
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Saturne en Europe, Musees de la Ville de Strasbourg Triennale Milano
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1988
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Skulpturen Republik, exhibition of the Vienna-Festival, Vienna, Austria
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1987
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The Unpainted Landscape, Edinburgh
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1987
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Monument to Feuerbach, Summer Exhibition, Antwerp
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1987
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Aphrodite of the Terror, Edinburgh International Exhibition
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1987
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Between Object and Image, Madrid and Barcelona
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1987
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Inter Artes et Naturam, Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (solo)
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1987
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Midway, Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris (solo)
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1987
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Pastorales, Galerie Claire Burrus, Paris (solo)
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1987
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Poursuites Revolutionnaires, Foundation Cartier pour l’Art, Jouy-en-Josas (solo)
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1987
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Homage to Ian Hamilton Finlay, Victoria Miro Gallery, London (solo)
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1986
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Aberdeen Art Gallery (solo)
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1986
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Marat Assasine and other works, Victoria Miro Gallery, London (solo)
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1986
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L’Art et le Sacre Aujourd’hui, Cistercian Abbey, L’Epau
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1985
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The British Show, British Council exhibition, Sydney, Australia
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1985
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Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool (solo)
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1985
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Eric Fabre Galerie, Paris (solo)
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1985
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Little Sparta and Kriegsschatz, Espace Romeau-Chapelle Sainte-Marie, Nevers, France (solo)
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1984
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Talismans and Signifiers, Graeme Murray Gallery, Edinburgh (solo)
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1984
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Liberty, Terror and Virtue, City Art Gallery, Southampton (solo)
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1984
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Print Gallery, Peter Brattinga, Amsterdam (solo)
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1983
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Hayward Gallery, London
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1981
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Unnatural Pebbles, Graeme Murray Gallery, Edinburgh (solo)
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1980
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Nature over Again After Poussin, Collins Exhibition Hall, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow (solo)
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1980
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Rijksmuseum Kroller-Mulle, Otterlo (solo)
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1980
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Graeme Murray Gallery, Edinburgh (solo)
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1977
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Graeme Murray Gallery, Edinburgh (solo)
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1977
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Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge (solo)
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1977
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Serpentine Gallery, London (solo)
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1977
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Participated with “Lyre” at the Silver Jubilee Exhibition of Contemporary Sculpture, Battersea Park, London
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1976
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Coracle Press, London (solo)
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1976
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Homage to Watteau, Graeme Murray Gallery, Edinburgh (solo)
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1976
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City Art Gallery, Southampton (solo)
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1974
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National Maritime Museum, London (solo)
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1972
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Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh (solo)
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1971
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Winchester College of Art (solo)
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1970
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Ceolfrith Bookshop Gallery, Sunderland (solo)
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1969
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Pittencrieff House, Dunfermline (solo)
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1969
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Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh (solo)
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1968
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Axiom Gallery, London (solo)
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Selected Permanent Installations
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2004 St. Mary Axe, City of London
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2004 Fleur de l’Air, garden in Provence, France
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2001 Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, The Dean Gallery, Edinburgh
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2000 Wallraff- Richartz Museum, Cologne
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2000 Schonthal Monestry, Switzerland
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2000 Patumbah Park, Switzerland
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1999 Bundesarbeitsgericht, Erfurt, Germany
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1999 Private garden, Zurich, Lauffen, Basel, Switzerland
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1999 BUGA, Magdeberg, Germany
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1999 Park am Goetheturm im GruGurtel, Frankfurt, Germany
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1999 Dienstgebaude fur den Generalbundesanwalt beim
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1999 Bundesgerichtshof, Karlsruhe, Germany
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1999 Shell Research, Thorton Research Centre, England
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1998 Serpentine Gallery, London
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1998 Den Haag, the Netherlands
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1997 Hunter Square, Edinburgh
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1997 Kunsthalle, Hambourg
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1996 Botanic Garden University of Durham
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1995 Landesgartenschau, Grevenbroich
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1994 The Gyle, Shopping Centre, Edinburgh
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1994 Schröder Münchmeyer Hengst & Co. Bank, Frankfurt/Main
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1994 Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis
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1993 Beelden op de Berg, Belmonte Arboretum, Wageningen, Netherlands
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1992 Shenstone’s Leasowes, Dudley, England
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1992 Floiadepark, Zoetermeer, Netherlands
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1991 Stockwood Park Nurseries in the Borough of Luton, England
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1991 Library of Baden, Karlsruhe, Germany
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1991 Overbeck-Gesellschaft, Lubeck
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1990 Private Library of the German architect Ungers, Cologne
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1990 12th & K Office Tower, Sacramento, California
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1990 Railway Bridge, Glasgow, Scotland
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1989 Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, England
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1989 Forest of Dean, England
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1988 Museum of Modern Art, Strasbourg
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1987 Skulptur Projekt, Munster
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1987 Campus of the University of California, San Diego
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1987 Furka Pass, Switzerland
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1987 West Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh
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1986 Domaine de Kerguehennec, Brittany
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1986 Schweizergarten, Vienna
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1986 Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
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1984 Celle, Garden of Giuliano Gori (Near Florence)
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2007
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Ian Hamilton Finlay: Remembrance, Professor Stephen Bann, Wild Hawthorn Press, Little Sparta, Victoria Miro Gallery
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2004
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Fleur de l’Air – A Garden in Provence, Ian Hamilton Finlay and Pia Simig, Wild Hawthorn Press
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2004
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Art of the Garden – The Garden in British Art 1800 to the Present Day, Tate Publishing
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2003
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Little Sparta – The Garden of Ian Hamilton Finlay, Jessie Sheeler, photographs by Andrew Lawson, Frances Lincoln Ltd
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2002
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Ian Hamilton Finlay – Maritime Works, Tate St.Ives, Cornwall
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2000
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Ian Hamilton Finlay, Concrete Poetry, Galeria Bielska BWA, Bielsko-Biala, Poland
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1998
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Ian Hamilton Finlay: A Proposal for the Grounds of the Serpentine Gallery, Little Sparta, Wild Hawthorn Press
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1997
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Ian Hamilton Finlay: Prints 1963 – 1997, PAHLKE, Rosemarie E., SIMIG, Pia, ed. Museum am Ostwall Dortmund, Statsgalerij Heerlen and Galerie Stadtpark Krems, Cantz Verlag
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1995
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Ian Hamilton Finlay: Works in Europe 1972-1995 Werke in Europa, , HUNT, John Dixon, GILONIS, Harry, -SIMIG, Pia, ed, Ostfildern, Cantz Verlag
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1995
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Wood Notes Wild - Essays on the Poetry and Art of Ian Hamilton Finlay, edited by Alec Finlay , Paragon, Edinburgh
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1994
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A Posse of Two: Lorine Niedecker and Ian Hamilton Finlay, Chapman
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1993
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Niedecker and the Correspondence with Zukofsky, 1931-1970. Penberthy, Jenny, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
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1993
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The Visible Language of Modernism, McGann, Jerome J., Black Riders Princeton, Princeton University Press
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1992
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Ian Hamilton Finlay: A Visual Primer. Yves Abrioux, introduction and commentaries, Stephen Bann. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press
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1992
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POIESIS: Aspects of Contemporary Poetic Activity, Graeme Murray, Ed, The Fruit Market Gallery, Edinburgh
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1991
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EVENING WILL COME THEY WILL SEW THE BLUE SAIL, Ian Hamilton Finlay & the Wild Hawthorn Press 1958-1991, Edwin Morgan and Graeme Murray Ed, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
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1991
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Ian Hamilton Finlay: Poet of the Woodland, Krem, Galerie Stadtpark und Autoren
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1991
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Ezra Pound and the Monument of Culture: Text, History, and the Malatesta Cantos. Lawrence S., Chicago: University of Chicago Press
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1991
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Philosophical Fragments Schlegel, Friedrich, Trans. Peter Firchow. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press
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1989
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Nelson, Cary, Repression and Recovery: Modern American Poetry and the Politics of Cultural Memory 1910-1945. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press
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1988
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The Theory of Literature in German Romanticism. Lacoue-Labarthe, Philippe, and Nancy, Jean-Luc, Trans. Philip Barnard and Cheryl Lester. Albany: State University of New York Press
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1987
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Inter Artes et Naturam, Finlay, Ian Hamilton, Paris: ARC
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1984
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Letters, MacDiarmid, Hugh. Ed. Alan Bold. Athens: University of Georgia Press
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1982
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1789: The Emblems of Reason Starobinski, Jean,. Trans. Barbara Bray. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press
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1981
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Romanticism and the Forms of Ruin: Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Modalities of Fragmentation,Thomas Princeton: Princeton University Press
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1980
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Davenport, Guy, trans., Archilochus, Sappho, Alkman: Three Lyric Poets of the Seventh Century B.C., Berkeley: University of California Press
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1971
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The Pound Era, Kenner, Hugh. Berkeley: University of California Press
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1967
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Transformations in Late Eighteenth Century Art. Rosenblum, Robert, Princeton: Princeton, University Press
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1963
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Rapel, Finlay’s first selection of concrete poems
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