TP Flanagan: Correspondences

4th June – 17th July 2010

T.P. Flanagan, who has been exhibiting now for some fifty years, is largely recognised as an important Irish landscape artist of his generation. While Flanagan’s paintings often celebrate the formal features and elements at work in a landscape they can also embrace and rinse up social and political undercurrents invested in a terrain. For example A Fermanagh Elegy ( 1971) may be viewed as a metaphor for the frozen political attitudes embedded in our culture.

Still life and figurative works also feature in the artist’s oeuvre and at times can touch upon the dignity of silence as in A Rose Wrapped Up (1973-75) series or pay tribute to a victim of political violence as in Victim (1975), which while relating to the murdered Judge McBurney, in its neo-classical disposition, recognises all victims , regardless of time, place and circumstances.

This exhibition will then explore and analyse a range of these intriguing sub themes in the work of one of our more literary inclined artists.