Bridget Flannery Explained

2024 5 pieces of work in a group exhibition called "Real Life" national gallery of Ireland2024 Retrospective ballinglen Arts centre co Mayo Ireland. Bridget Flannery (born 1959) is an Irish painter working in abstract painting. Mark Ewart says: "She is not a landscape painter in the strictest sense of the word," but both he and fellow critic Aidan Dunne say that her work is influenced by landscapes or seascapes.^{[1] [2]} She studied at the Crawford College of Art, and Design Cork.^[3] She has exhibited across Ireland and internationally.^[4] Her work was included in the exhibition "Cork Art Now '85" at the Crawford Municipal Art Gallery and then traveled to the Heineken Gallery in Amsterdam.^[5]

In October 2022, the Lavit Gallery in Cork, Ireland held a solo exhibit, "Undersong," of Flannery's work.^[6]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Ewart . Mark . 29 February 2000 . Bridget Flannery: A Filled Silence . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20160326051016/http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/bridget-flannery-a-filled-silence-1.250376 . 26 March 2016 . 8 November 2022 . The Irish Times.
2. Web site: Dunne . Aidan . 23 February 2005 . Complementary sides of a character . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20221109005910/https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/complementary-sides-of-a-character-1.417595 . 9 November 2022 . 8 November 2022 . The Irish Times . en.
3. Web site: AIB art 2 : a selection from the AIB collection of modern Irish art . AIB collection . Dublin : AIB Group . 19 December 2021 . 2002.
4. Web site: 2007 . Bridget Flannery: 15th March - 7th April 2007 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20081202180226/http://www.crossgallery.ie/gallery/exhibition.aspx?cd=37 . 2 December 2008 . 2 February 2010 . Cross Gallery.
5. Web site: Cork Art Now '85 : Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Emmet Place, Cork, 11 September-24 October 1985 [and] Heineken Gallery, Amsterdam, 14 November-16 December 1985 ]. Kahle/Austin Foundation . Cork : Cork Art Now '85 . 19 December 2021 . 1985.
6. Web site: Olney . Michael . 6 October 2022 . Bridget’s back on Leeside . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20221006110614/https://www.corkindependent.com/2022/10/06/bridgets-back-on-leeside/ . 6 October 2022 . 8 November 2022 . Cork Independent . en-US.