Ian Hamilton Finlay: Fragments

30 Apr-24 May 2025

Overview

Victoria Miro is delighted to present an exhibition marking the centenary of the birth of one of Scotland’s greatest artists, Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925–2006). Fragments is both a major new book and eight exhibitions that will take place internationally during May 2025 in Basel, Brescia, Edinburgh, Hamburg, London, New York, Palma de Mallorca and Vienna, curated and edited by Pia Maria Simig.

An artist, poet and landscape designer, Ian Hamilton Finlay reinvigorated the classical tradition in a body of work that encompasses a variety of creative forms to celebrate the sustaining power of words. Drawn principally from the 1990s, and featuring sculpture in stone, wood and neon, as well as wall painting, tapestry and print, works on view at Victoria Miro in London are curated around the themes of ‘maritime’ and ‘revolution’.