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Welcome to the website of Mike Finnie, Architect and Designer, based in the Shetland Islands. I was born in Scotland, educated at Kirkcudbright Academy and Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee. I worked in mainland Scotland before moving to Shetland. I am a Chartered Architect, a member of the Scottish Society of Architect Artists, 'Veer North' (Shetland Artists) and 'The Company of Incidental Artists' (Shetland Artists Group). I am a trustee of 'The Belmont Trust'; restoring a category A listed Georgian house on Shetland's northernmost island, Unst. I have travelled extensively, mainly throughout Europe and the Middle East. I am also passionately interested in the architecture of Shetland, Scotland and the Islamic world.
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Awards and Exhibitions

Awards

2000 Award from the Association for the Protection of Rural Scotland (for 2 houses in East Burra)

Art

1996 Frame It award for painting, Bonhoga Gallery, Shetland
2000 Frame It award for painting, Bonhoga Gallery, Shetland
1999 Award for paintings, Scottish Society of Architect Artists

Exhibitions

Architecture

2002 Anatomy of the House (Houses in East Burra feature)
Touring Exhibition, The Lighthouse, Glasgow

Art

Solo Exhibitions

2002 Mike Finnie, Rendezvous Gallery, Aberdeen
2003 Paintings of Syria, Vaila Fine Art, Lerwick
2006 New Watercolours of Shetland, Gilbert Bain Hospital, Lerwick

Group Exhibitions

Annually from 1996 - 2006 Shetland Open, Bonhoga Gallery, Shetland
Exhibitor from 1998, Scottish Society of Architect Artists

1994 South Mainland Art Group, Shetland Museum Gallery
1995 'One Square Foot', Bonhoga Gallery, Shetland
1996 South Mainland Art Group, Shetland Museum Gallery
1996 'Blues', Bonhoga Gallery, Shetland
1997 'Mike Finnie & Tommy Watt', Shetland Museum Gallery
1997 'Feast', Bonhoga Gallery, Shetland
1998 'Quartet', Shetland Arts Trust Touring, Shetland
1998 'The Boat Show', Bonhoga Gallery, Shetland
1999 Shetland Art Groups, Shetland Museum Gallery
1999 Shetland Art Exhibition, Maloy, Norway
1999 Shetland Art Exhibition, Hanstholm, Denmark
1999 'Hatched', Bonhoga Gallery, Shetland
1999 South Mainland Art Group, Osla's Café, Lerwick
2000/01 'The Street', Shetland Arts Trust Touring, Shetland
2001 ‘Fez to Fethaland’, Morocco, Anne Bain & Mike Finnie
Bonhoga Gallery, Shetland
2001 ‘White’, Bonhoga Gallery, Shetland
2001 Peacock Printmakers Christmas Exhibition, Aberdeen
2002 South Mainland Art Group, The Old Haa, Burravoe, Yell, Shetland
2002 'Mike Finnie', Rendezvous Gallery, Aberdeen
2002 Shetland Artists, The Line Gallery, Linlithgow
2002 ‘£9-£90’, Bonhoga Gallery, Shetland
2002 Peacock Printmakers Christmas Exhibition, Aberdeen
2003 Christmas Exhibition, Bonhoga Gallery, Shetland
2004 ‘10x4’, Bonhoga Gallery, Shetland
2004 ‘Sparkle’, Bonhoga Gallery, Shetland
2005 ‘Heavenly’, Bonhoga Gallery, Shetland
2006 Company of Incidental Artists, Old Haa, Burravoe Yell, Shetland
2006 Anne Bain & Mike Finnie, Lerwick Tourist Office, Shetland
2006 'Gie Us Ten Guitars', Bonhoga Gallery, Shetland
2006 'Arabesque', Bonhoga Gallery, Shetland
2007 'Many Happy Returns' Vaila Fine Art, Lerwick, Shetland
2008 'Art in the Office: Mike Finnie & John Cumming' Lerwick, Shetland
2008 'Mailboats' Orkney & Shetland joint project with poets and artists, Orquill Gallery & Shetland Museum and Archives