Alec Finlay

Alec is an artist, poet & publisher. Born in Scotland in 1966, he now lives in the North-East of England, in Byker (Newcastle upon Tyne).

He has exhibited his work widely including at BALTIC (Gateshead), Royal Scottish Academy (Edinburgh), Yorkshire Sculpture Park (West Bretton), Turner Contemporary (Margate), Sainsbury Centre for Visual Art (Norwich), John Hansard Gallery (Southampton), Bickachsen 6 (Bad Homburg), Cairn Gallery (Pittenweem) and EAST (Norwich).

Alec produced a series of screenprints with Northern Print and he was selected for the Northern Print Biennale in 2009, where he showed his collaboration with Jo Salter, 'Specimen Colony'.