George Finlay Ramsay (b. Dundee, Scotland, bad back, eczema, bipolar spectrum?) is an artist working with the love of volcanoes, poetry, ritual and analogue filmmaking. George Finlay Ramsay, based in Glasgow, works with performance, poetry, analogue filmmaking and a love of volcanoes. His first artistic acts occurred at the age of three, and involved inventing a religion with sticks, and setting his room on fire. Subsequent acts include burning hundreds of regrets in volcanoes (2017–2018).

His fake epic poem Raven’s Reprise (2020) tells of a trickster raven travelling through the pandemic and remaking the world to her better designs. His short film CASTOROCENE (2021) sees beavers re-build the world after humans have destroyed it. Mid length film Family Fugue (2022) is about how we are haunted by, and in turn haunt our ancestors. Nursted, from the sleep side (2023) and deals with the idea of a house falling asleep, and Flesh Wax & Glass (ongoing) charts three years of a bloodletting ritual in the south of Italy, and one family’s process of mourning.

He is currently making plans to have his body thrown into a volcano after he dies. 

He has been nominated for the Jarman award, was shortlisted for the Margaret Tait Award and his work has been presented at PAF Olomouc (CZ), Barbican (EN), Beijing People’s Art Theatre (CN), BFI Southbank (UK), BBC Radio 3 (EN), Camden Arts Centre (EN), Matadero (SP), Mubi, NTS Radio, LUX Scotland (SC), Rupert Residency (LT), Atletika (LT), SODAS 2123 (LT).