Finlay Mann is an Illustrator, Animator and Audio Visual Designer from Oxford. He combines digital and analogue drawing methods with sound design as tools for whimsical worldbuilding. Fin’s work observes the world around him, highlighting notable elements from his own viewpoint and raises questions about modern life. He creates sonic scapes from digital instruments to re-contextualize various sounds and textures from nature, helping form dialogues between the digital and natural.
10 Years observes the attitude of modern life in routine. Finlay reflects on his current understanding of human perception towards the environment and creates a dystopian dull urban landscape in foresight to the near future. Finlay mixes digital with traditional drawn mediums to create a familiar world, whilst simultaneously, estranging the viewer and allowing dissociation to our own surroundings. This was inspired by Finlays experiences from moving out of his small suburban town into sprawling urban London, as well as concerning conversations with close familiy.
Finlay Mann is inspired by his love and fascination of science fiction worlds to help form many of his ideas. Forming narratives of both Dystopian and Utopian futures in reflection of modern life and exploring how digital formats as well as the evolving world of new technology, can open up new possibilities for creative expression. Finlay also draws upon his love for UK rave culture and bass music, as an expressive and tribal product of modern life. The atmosphere and world that is built from fast hard hitting drums and the deep physical evoking sub bass, creates its own emotional form of audio world building and sonic escapism. The uk rave culture and energy is an element Finlay tries to capture in his work, as well as an exciting form of expression he would like to study more in the future.
Illustrator, Animator and Audio Visual Designer. Inspired by world-building possibilities from science fiction and Uk dance culture. Fin mixes traditional hand-drawn mediums with digital image generators and combines his electronic musical compositions to create a familiar world, whilst simultaneously, estranging the viewer, allowing dissociation from our own surroundings.