Bridget Flannery: New Works
The Mcbride Gallery, Killarney presents well established Irish painter Bridget Flannery’s most recent new works in an exhibition, opening Friday October 3rd, 2008 at 7pm.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue of works, with a foreword by a well-known Irish art critic. Broadcaster Marian Kelly from Dublin City fm show ‘Parlour Review’ will officially open the exhibition (Marian coincidentally comes from Killarney, and is a close friend of the artist). Please Find Encl. Detailed CV and images of work, Catalogue will follow.
Biography & Exhibitions
Bridget Flannery was born in Cork in 1959. Since graduating from the Crawford College of Art & Design, with a Diploma in Fine Art Painting & Printmaking in 1981, Bridget Flannery has held over twenty solo exhibitions throughout Ireland and Europe, including: Pigyard Gallery, Wexford; Cross Gallery, Dublin; RHA Ashford Gallery, Dublin; Vangard Gallery, Cork. She has consistently showed in group and selected exhibitions, as well as receiving considerable critical attention, with reviews of exhibitions by leading Irish art critics such as Aidan Dunne and Mark Ewart.
Paintings
Flannery’s work is regarded as high art. Experts, critics and writers extol Flannery’s accomplished and mature style and creative expression. Needless to say, new works are highly anticipated by loyal collectors.
Flannery's paintings are made with mixed media such as oil and acrylic on wood. Formally, the work may be described as the composition of abstracted, not objective, geometric and atmospheric, distilled forms. The work is informed by the artist’s creative conscious and subconscious processes - spiritual influences central to the balance of the work.
Critic’s Response
The silent elegance which Flannery’s works embody, have attracted much poetic descriptions. In this piece, Irish Times Art Critic Aidan Dunne, has written a holistic, spiritual response to Flannery’s work:
“Landscape, the sea, currents of feeling, the flavour and structure of poetry and music inform her painting. There is a lavishing, a generosity, an urge to put in everything that is interesting, valuable, cherished and perhaps everything ominous and anxious as well.
The painting is the space which can accommodate all of it, positive and negative. The urge to include is tempered by the need to exclude. The list of what must be left out grows as the painting develops. Only the eventual conclusions are there in the finished image, the duration and fallibility of the process are evident in the residual traces of making. These are not incidental, but integral to the finished work, embodying its history and conceptual density.” Aidan Dunne
Further Information
Please Contact Joanne McCarthy, Gallery Manager
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