Finlay Abbott Ellwood
Lives and works in London, UK
Finlay Abbott Ellwood graduated from The Slade School of Fine Art-London in 2018 and since has been living and working in London.
Finlay uses painting as a way to consolidate a quiet but perpetually present feeling that there is a multitude of natural connections within the vectors of the world. Painting for Finlay 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.
