Philip Flanagan: 2012

Wednesday, 19 December 2012

BRONZE PORTRAIT OF T.P. FLANAGAN

PORTRAIT OF T.P. FLANAGAN

BRONZE

LIFE-SIZE

EDITION OF 5

1986

Tuesday, 20 November 2012

David Hammond, Singer, Film-maker and Broadcaster

Bronze, Life-size, 2012. Artist : Philip Flanagan ©Philip Flanagan

Thursday, 25 October 2012

Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast - Outside and Between, Belfast Festival at Queens

Outside and Between examines how perceptions of artists from Northern Ireland are informed by the context in which their work is seen, categorized and discussed. Taking in to account not only subject matter, genre and materiality but also preconceptions about antecedents, practice and platform, the exhibition examines how artists relate to and are identified with Northern Ireland.

The exhibition features works by Michael Alcorn, St. Claire Allen, Betty Brown, Gerard Devlin, Philip Flanagan, Willie Heron,Tony Hill, Terry McAllister, Mark McGreevy, Rory Moore, Philip Mussen, Eddie Rafferty, Martin Wedge & Derek Wilson.

Shân McAnena is an art historian and curator, director of the The Naughton Gallery and the Ulster Bank Belfast Festival at Queen’s.

The exhibition continues until 24^th November 2012 and the Gallery opening hours are: Tuesday – Friday 10.30 am – 5.30 pm & Saturday 10.30 am – 4.00pm

Concrete Form, Late Morning, Kearney
Acrylic on Linen
60 x 80 cm
2012
© Philip Flanagan

Concrete Form, Lower Lough Erne, Winter

Acrylic on Linen

96 x 122 cm

2009

Concrete Form, Tully II, Lough Erne Series
Acrylic on Linen
120 x 160 cm
2009
© Philip Flanagan

Concrete Form with Grey and Red, Lough Erne Series
Acrylic on Linen
150 x 220 cm
2008
© Philip Flanagan

Friday, 1 June 2012

Philip Flanagan at the James Wray Gallery, Belfast

The Purity of Brightness

An exhibition of Paintings by Philip Flanagan.

31st May - 16th of June 2012

Kearney Bay, Co Down

The exhibition stems from numerous visits to Kearney in County Down.

In the paintings I suggest rather than describe the topography of the landscape, the paintings are a contour of my feeling or response to the setting, an inscape as opposed to a landscape.

I am using colour as a means of expression. Form and light are achieved by working over coloured grounds, patterns of colour creating energy. The strength of the colours is held in balance by structure, which emphasises their vibrancy, but resolves it into an overall calm.

The compositions create a sense of simplicity and purity, built on formal principles of firmness and balance, proportion and structure. I am interested in the plastic space of a flat plane, such as a canvas: perceived rather than real space.

There is an image from Apollinaire that conveys the beauty of light -

The window opens like an orange / the beautiful fruit of life.

Philip Flanagan 2012