Born in Limerick in 1968 Martin Finnin studied at Limerick School of Art and briefly at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin.
He then moved to London, working on building sites, and using his spare time to draw and study at the National Gallery where he became fascinated in early Renaissance painting. He then travelled to Mexico, taking a studio and holding his first solo exhibition in 1988 at San Miguel de Allende.
He returned to Ireland holding further exhibitions throughout the 1990’s whilst continuing to travel through Europe and India.
Solo exhibitions
2021 | An Uncouth Song
2019 | A Year In Berlin
2018 | Go GO Pitch-Black Night
2016 | The Garden of Opposites
2015 | The Wolf of Eyelash Mountain
2013 | Renegade Amongst The Dusty Nouns
Art Fairs & Auctions
2018 | London Art Fair
2017 | Sotheby's Irish Art Sale
2016 | Texas Contemporary
2016 | Sotheby's Irish Art Sale
2016 | Art16 London
2016 | Spring Masters - New York
“I am an artist because I can’t do anything else. I am happy to be working with paint. If someone took the paints away I would draw. If I couldn’t draw I would end up playing around with a few chairs, rearranging them or breaking them up. If that wasn’t an option I might take a whizz on copper sheets just to watch them turn green. I paint to make sense of the world. It’s a way to get rid of all the information, all the stuff I pick up every day. It’s not cerebral. It’s just functional the same way it is functional to sneeze.”
