Alec Finlay was born in Scotland in 1966. He is an artist, poet and publisher. He now
lives and works in the North East of England. In 2002 he became the first BALTIC
artist in residence. Most recently he has worked as an artist in residence at Yorkshire
Sculpture Park, where he has been creating a series of art projects on themes
connected with nature and contemporary culture – Avant-Garde English Landscape.
He set up the Morning Star small press, which publishes the Folios and the
pocketbooks series. Recent books include Turning Toward Living (Platform Projects,
2004), Shared Writing, (Platform Projects, 2005), Ludwig Wittgenstein: There Where
You Are Not (Blackdog , 2006), Mesostic Herbarium (Platform Projects, 2004), Wind
Blown Clouds (Morning Star, 2005), Be My Reader (Bristol, Shearsman, 2012), and the
pamphlet Question your Teaspoon (Calder Wood, 2012)
