Finlay Abbott Ellwood
Lives and works in London, UK
b. 1996
Abbott Ellwood uses painting as a way to consolidate a quiet but perpetually present feeling that there are a multitude of natural connections within the vectors of the world. Painting for him can be thought of as visual analogy, which is the most efficient language for highlighting some of the nuanced links between the subjects he is interested in. Some are listed below:
The effect of chance on prosperity; in relation to seed dispersal, the syntax of space, heterotopias, sets of relations within the cellular structures of organisms and societies, sigils, mimicry, minimal intervention as a more soft approach to thinking about landscape, infographics as teaching aids and their implications, the hidden intellect of naivety within children, private vs meta sign-systems, how we respond to idiosyncratic events and how this fluctuates in relation to different bands of society, intuitive form and object recognition within animals and humans.
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Born 1996 in London, UK, and raised in Cornwall, UK
Lives and works in London, UK2015–2018
BFA Fine Art, The UCL Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK -
Solo and two-person exhibitions
2023
Beating the Bounds: Finlay Abbott-Ellwood & Rhian Harris-Mussi, Curated by Will Vetch, Inspection Pit, West Sussex, UK
2019
Rotunda, Porthmeor Studios, Cornwall, UK
Ideas Unsaid, Then Forgotten, Emanuel Von Bayer Cabinet (Online)2016
Knots, London Fields Gallery Space, London, UKGroup exhibitions
2023
Babele, Spazio Musa, Turin, Italy2022
The only thing more slippery than an elbow, Auction House, Cornwall, UK2021
Late Works 4, Gallery 46, London, UK
Mathew Burrows Selects, Unit 1 Gallery, London, UK
Great Conversations, The Koppel Project, London, UK
Casting The Runes, 108 Fleet Street, London, UK
LETH, Tremenheere Sculpture Garden, Cornwall, UK2019
Undergraduate Degree Show, The UCL Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK
Sixteen Steps, 35 Church Street, London, UK
EQUINOXY, Sam Bassett’s studio, Cornwall, UK
SOLFORCE, Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens, Cornwall, UK2018
237 Brompton Road, London, UK2017
Early Works, Vardaxoglou, London, UK -
Selected works
Born, Never Asked, 2023, acrylic and oil on canvas, 160 x 200 cm
The wind is taking hours like the fruits, 2023, oil on canvas, 130 x 100 cm
Vectors and Impulses, 2023, acrylic on canvas in six parts, each 66 x 20 cm
For You, 2023, acrylic on canvas, 95 x 320 cm
Samara, 2023, oil on canvas, 142 x 149 cm
A Child’s Inquiry, 2023, oil on canvas, 160 x 200 cm
Being Both the Plank and Pivot, 2023, oil on canvas, 104.5 x 182.5 cm
Untitled, 2023, charcoal and collage on board, 41 x 161 cm
Never 1:1, 2019, stainless steel, ripstop nylon and brass, 200 x 80 x 80 cm
My Departure Abrupt, My Arrival Vague And Fast, 2023, oil on canvas, 163 x 183 cm
Leaving the environment a parent lives in, 2023, oil on canvas, 97 x 101.5 cm
Goose/Hawk Effect, 2023, oil and acrylic on canvas, 167 x 213 cm
Registration Point, 2022, oil on canvas, 110 x 138 cm