Michael FlahertyOil on board
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1950
Born on the Dingle Peninsula 1969
-1973
B.A. Degree U.C.C. H Dip ED. Nat. University Maynooth 1973
-1977
Municipal Art College, Cork / Sligo RTC, Sligo 1988
– 2007 Resides
at - Cappagh Cross, Brandon, Tralee, Co Kerry. Michael
Flaherty …..So
Flaherty paints landscapes back west. But…he is different. He is a
farmer’s son and his studio is on the same farm that he left as a child.
His landscape has always been about the particular experience of that
place-the gable of a neighbour’s house glimpsed through the stand of
trees, the look out the window to see what the weather is doing, the walk
on the beach. His easel is surrounded by reminders of sensation –
sketches, photos and all sorts of other things – notes from a landscape.
On the far side of the easel is a wall stacked with new paintings that
show the varying degrees of realisation in imagery of those sensations
that the search for authenticity in representation. In
his latest work there is a difference tone. He has closed his eyes and
worked from memory, a deep memory connected to an emotional core. The work
has gotten smaller and darker and the surfaces more animated. Sauce Creek
is a recurring motif. This is a place apart, a massive hole punched by the
sea in the side of the mountain behind his house. Once inhabited the place
was abandoned a long time ago. There is an emotional trigger that is
seeking aesthetic and formal expression in the landscape. There is a dark
romanticism. Flaherty is in that space occupied so long ago by Yeats and
more recently by Patrick Collins – the quintessential Irish landscape. Ciaran
Walsh, Visual Art
Director, Siamsa Tire, Tralee. SOLO
EXHIBITIONS 2006
Gormley’s - Dublin Gallery.
Kilcock Art Gallery, Co. Lildare.
2005
Hallward Gallery, Dublin.
Kenny’s
Galway.
Gormley’s Gallery, Belfast. 2004
Green lane Gallery, Dingle.
Kilcock
Art Gallery, Co. Kildare 2003
Greenlane Gallery , Dingle.
Kenny’s Gallery, Galway.
Brendan Kennelly Summer School, Ballylongford.
2002
Kilcock Art Gallery, Co Kildare.
Dalkey Castle. 2001
Blue Raincoats Theatre, Sligo.
Kenny’s Gallery, Galway. 2000
Siamsa Tire , Tralee
Kilcock Art Gallery, Co Kildare.
Lavit Gallery, Cork. 1999
Kenny’s Gallery, Galway. 1998
Kilcock Art Gallery, Co Kildare.
Listowel Writers’ Week. 1997
Kilcock Art Gallery, Co Kildare.
Vanguard Gallery, Macroom.
Kenny’s Gallery, Galway. 1996
Cork Art Society.
Grant Fine Art, Co. Down.
Guinness Hop Store, Dublin. 1995
New York University.
Kenny’s Gallery, Galway. 1994
Grant Fine Art, Co Down. 1992
-05
Kilcock Art Gallery, Co Kildare
Wellspring Gallery, Tralee
Greenlane Gallery, Dingle 1991
Listowel Writers Week
Kenny’s Gallery Galway. 1990
Kenny’s Gallery Galway.
Sligo Art Gallery. 1989
Siamsa Tire, Tralee.
Mount Street Gallery, Dublin. 1988
Hendrick’s Gallery ,Dublin.
Cork Arts Society.
Sligo Arts Festival.
Heritage Centre, Derry. 1987
Ginnel Gallery, Manchester. 1986
Ginnel Gallery, Manchester.
Sligo Art Gallery.
Peacock Theatre, Dublin. 1983
Sligo Art Gallery. 1980
Arches Gallery, Edinburgh. 1976
& ‘77 Sligo
Art Gallery. GROUP
EXHIBITIONS
2007
Green Lane Gallery, Paris
2006
Green Lane Gallery, Paris
Vanguard Gallery, Cork
2005
Vanguard gallery, Cork
2004
Full Circle, Temple Bar, Dublin
Blasket
Island Exhibition, Blasket Centre &
Greenlane Gallery 2003
Siamsa Tire, Tralee.
Vangard Gallery, Cork. 2002
Art
Fair London
20/20 Exhibition Temple Bar Dublin
Kennys Gallery, Galway. 2001
Siamsa Tire, Tralee
Art fair –RDS
Vangard Gallery, Cork.
Green Lane Gallery Dingle 2000
Art Fair –RDS
Green Lane Gallery –Castletroy park Hotel,
Limerick
Solomon Gallery, Dublin.
Siamsa Tire, Tralee 1999
Solomon
Gallery, Dublin
Vanguard Gallery, Macroom
Lavit Gallery Cork 1998
Siamsa Tralee
Belfast
Inisboffin Arts Week
1996-
1997
Gateway to Art – Dublin Airport 1995
Shannon Airport
Stone Gallery -Spiddal
Royal Ulster Academy Belfast 1993
Vincent
& Noleen Ferguson Collection Show
RHA Gallagher Gallery 1991
Frank Lewis Gallery Kilarney
Kenny’s Gallery Galway 1990
Kenny’s Gallery Galway Frank
Lewis Gallery, Kilarney 1989
Wurzburg Germany.
Frank Lewis Gallery, Killarney.
Cork Arts Society
Galway Arts festival 1988 Carrol’s Gallery, Longford
Galway Arts festival
Cavan Arts festival
Kenny’s Gallery Galway
Hendrick’s Gallery Dublin 1987
Sligo Arts Gallery
Carrol’s Gallery, Longford 1986
I.C.F.A.- London 1984-1985
Sligo Art Gallery 1983
Lincoln Gallery, Dublin
Peacock Gallery, Dublin 1980
Arches Gallery,Edinburgh 1977
-1980
Sligo Art Gallery
Claremorris Open
Arches Gallery, Edinburgh
COLLECTIONS
A.I.B
group Dublin
City University Dept
of an Tanaiste Irish
Iife Insurance Mrs.
Jean kennedy Smyth (former U.S. ambassador to Ireland) A.I.B.
,New York Arthur
Anderson & Co Ulster
Investment Bank I.B.E.C. Irish
management Institution Electricity
Supply Board Merrill
Lynch Corporate Finance Avonmore
Waterford P.L.C. Vincent
Ferguson collection Lee
Strand Tralee National
Treasury Management Agency Government
Offices DAIWA
Bank Plc, New York National
Portrait Collection University of Limerick New
York University, Washington Square Dock
Holdings Ltd. Guinness
Peat Aviation St
luke’s Hospital Commerz
Bank, Frankfurt, Germany Irish
Intercontinental Bank, Dublin United
Drug Plc Brian
Burnes Collection, California ABN
Amro Irish
Permanent Building Society Colourtech
Computing Ltd. Central
Bank, Dublin International
Company Services (Ir) Ltd. Kerry
Foods Plc. Bausch
& lamb, Waterford. |