Mick Finch

(b 1957, United Kingdom. Lives and works in London)

Finch's current Book of Knowledge series appropriates and explores images from an eight-volume set of encyclopedias by the same name; published at the end of the 1950s. By scanning the over 3000 images from the volumes at very high resolution; Finch is able to not only reproduce them at scale; but also to explore and exploit them through playful and provocative digital collages that expose their time-sensitive political and ideological undertones.