Café des Artistes 1

The first of the public discussions on a major contemporary Scottish artist and poet, Ian Hamilton Finlay, hosted by Professor Andrew Patrizio and Dr Greg Thomas.

It took place on 3 December 2013 in Talbot Rice Gallery.

Andrew Patrizio holds the Chair of Scottish Visual Culture in History of Art at Edinburgh College of Art, The University of Edinburgh. From 2011 to 2013 he was director of the ARTIST ROOMS Research Partnership.

Andrew has taught, researched and curated the work of Ian Hamilton Finlay, amongst many other Scottish artists, since the late 1980s. Prior to his move to Edinburgh in 1997 (to take up the position as Director of Research at ECA) he was a curator at Hayward Gallery, London and Glasgow Museums.

Greg Thomas is a tutor in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh, where he recently completed a PhD on concrete poetry in England and Scotland, focusing on the work of Ian Hamilton Finlay, Edwin Morgan, Dom Sylvester Houédard and Bob Cobbing.

He has published various articles and book chapters on this subject, and last year he curated the concrete poetry exhibition Beauty Happiness and Play at the Scottish Poetry Library.