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8th March - 21st April 2007
Brendan Flaherty
Magic Drawings in the Womb of the Living Earth

Magic Drawings in the Womb of the Living Earth, is the first
solo exhibition of paintings by Irish artist Brendan Flaherty.

Flaherty is concerned with the reasons for making art. He explores
a continuous lineage of image making from prehistoric cave painting
right through to modern graphic production. Employing a palette of
vibrant and unnatural colours he inserts characters liberated from
pictorial history into newly invented stages and scenarios where
visual genres jostle and collide.

Much of the work in the exhibition references real and imagined
spaces. They are not intended as representations of reality,
however, the purpose of the paintings is to serve as an opening
into a place that echoes reality, but with a heightened sense of
drama and romance.

Since graduating from NCAD in 2005 with a 1st class honours degree,
Brendan Flaherty has exhibited widely around Ireland, including
EV+A and Belltable Arts Centre in Limerick, chq in Dublin,
The Granary, Waterford, Ard Bia, Galway and the Form Gallery
in Cork.

 

 

 

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