By: FINNEMORE, Peter (1963-)

Acq. Number: 732

Dimensions: 61.0 x 83.5 cm each

Artwork_Medium: 6 C-Type colour photographs mounted on aluminium

Purchased: 2003

Buyer: BALA, Iwan

Location: Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales National Museum Cardiff

Town: Cardiff

Content: Iwan Bala: Peter Finnemore lives in Pontiets near Llanelli. He trained at the prestigious Glasgow School of Art and has exhibited widely abroad and in the UK. In 2005, he was one of three artists representing Wales at the Venice Biennale, and his Oriel Mostyn touring exhibition Zen Gardner has been highly commended. He is a remarkably inventive artist, known for his idiosyncratic imagery, and photography is an important though not sole element of his armoury. His work involves performance, object making and drawing, and the photograph often works as a device of recording a made up scenario, where objects, toys, people, drawings and strange things take place. I have chosen to purchase an early example of his work, one that includes another of his concerns: cultural identity. The six C-Type prints mounted on aluminium featured in Certain Welsh Artists and are pages photographed and re-presented to highlight the way history is always written by the victor, or in this case in Lesson 56, how a young girl (his grandmother) was taught about the place where she was born.