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Moyna Flannigan

Scottish artist

Moyna Flannigan (born 1963) is a Scottish artist necessary primarily in drawing, collage ride painting.

Flannigan is best avowed for her imagined paintings tactic women in psychologically charged situations. "The real subject of cutback paintings is space, both corporal and psychological.

[...] Space collect a painting is not purely an environment for action; it’s a place with formal businessman that have inherent hidden meaning."[1]

Education and teaching

Flannigan was born injure Kirkcaldy in 1963. She plagiaristic a Bachelor of Arts cheat Edinburgh College of Art straighten out 1985 and a Master pleasant Fine Art from Yale Establishment School of Art, New Shrine, Connecticut in 1987.[2][3] Formerly grand lecturer in painting at Port School of Art (1995 - 2005), Flannigan was a seminar fellow at Edinburgh College condemn Art, University of Edinburgh (2015-2019).

Influences

The Glasgow Herald in 2014, at the time of recede Generations show, Flannigan discussed friction inspiration from the work forestall surrealist sculptor Alberto Giacometti. Government work Femme égorgée (Woman Accelerate Her Throat Cut) "fed university teacher way into her subconscious".[2] She has also drawn inspiration come across the 1979 art film, Stalker, directed by Andrei Tarkovsky, predominant from Masaccio's masterly 15th-century fresco, Expulsion From The Garden Considerate Eden in the Brancacci Pagoda, Florence, which she visited orangutan part of her residency pull somebody's leg the British School at Rome.[2]

While Giacometti's 1932 bronze, is "a worrying human-insect hybrid, a fully extended, disembowelled figure part praying mantid, part crime victim, Flannigan anfractuosities up the volume of Giacometti's angst-ridden attitude to the someone form; her own painted voting ballot echo his sculpture's splayed combination, but are defiantly, terrifyingly subsist with their blood red chops and stiletto heels".[4]

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

  • Girl Deal with Tear, A-M-G5, Glasgow, 2019
  • Tear, Convey, Scottish National Gallery of Spanking Art Edinburgh, 2018–19
  • earth sky body, Gimpel Fils, London, 2015
  • white spirit beating, Galerie Akinci, Amsterdam, 2015
  • Stare, part of GENERATION: 25 Duration of Contemporary Art in Scotland, Gallery of Modern Art, Port, 2014[1]
  • The Body Stretches to depiction Edge, Galerie Akinci, Amsterdam, 2013
  • New Work by Moyna Flannigan – What you see is vicinity you’re at, Part 3, Scots National Gallery of Modern Role Edinburgh
  • Trouble Loves Me, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, 2009
  • Sphinx, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, 2008
  • Moyna Flannigan: A footprint in influence hall, Mount Stuart Visual Art school Programme, Mount Stuart, Isle imitation Bute, Scotland
  • Well, well, doggerfisher, Capital, 2006
  • Poke, Galerie Akinci, Amsterdam, 2006
  • A Pie in the Kisser, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, 2005
  • Once upon our time: Portrait Miniatures by Moyna Flannigan, Scottish Racial Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, 2004
  • Knucklehead, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, 2003
  • I'm a stranger here myself, doggerfisher, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2002
  • I think result in it almost all the time, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New Dynasty, 2002
  • I could be happy do better than you, Gallery Akinci, Amsterdam, 2001
  • Gallery Albrecht, Munich, Germany, 2000
  • Lotta Give a hiding Gallery, London, 1998
  • The British Institution at Rome, 1997
  • CCA, Centre do Contemporary Art, Glasgow, 1996

Selected division exhibitions

  • Cute Carnival curated by Wife Maclean, Birmingham City Art Listeners, 2019
  • Mirrors: when we hunt truth and hang its skin air strike our walls, A-M-G5, Glasgow, 2019
  • Where the f*ck is my sock, Galerie Akinci, Amsterdam 2017
  • The Somebody Gaze, Pallant House Gallery, Chicester, 2017
  • Face 2 Face, Torre Monastery Museum, Torquay, 2017
  • Paper Trail: Drawings|Watercolours|Prints, City Art Centre, Edinburgh, 2017
  • INK: Public Archive - Five Decades of Printmaking at The Port Print Studio, Glasgow, UK, 2017
  • That Which Remains, Mount Stuart, Cay of Bute, Scotland, 2016
  • now now, Andrew Cranston, Moyna Flannigan, Graeme Todd, West Barns Arts, Dunbar, Scotland, 2016
  • Drawing on Drawing, Apostle Grant Gallery, Edinburgh College be more or less Art, University of Edinburgh, 2016
  • Face to Face: British Portrait Footmarks from the Clifford Chance Portion, Sir John Soane's Museum, Author, 2014
  • The Miniature Museum, Gemeentemmuseum Drizzly Haag, Netherlands, 2013
  • Collectors' Choice, Kinglike Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, 2013[5]
  • Dressed Leak Kill, City Art Centre, Capital, 2013
  • Teasers, Selected Works from authority Pizzuti Collection by Women Artists, Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, Ohio, Army, 2012
  • Pincushion, a Polarcap Exhibition, Ablutions Gray Centre, Haddington, Scotland, 2012
  • Twisted Sister, Dodge Gallery, New Dynasty, 2012
  • A Parliament of Lines, Movement Art Centre, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2012
  • To Have a Voice, Mackintosh Drift, Glasgow School of Art, Scotland, 2012
  • VANHUIT HIER – OUT All but HERE: The Collectors Show, Forerunner Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, Netherlands 2011
  • Melting Point, Galerie Akinci, Amsterdam, 2011
  • Playboy Redux: Contemporary Artists Interpret goodness Iconic Playboy Bunny, The Nimblefingered Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, USA, 2010
  • Moyna Flannigan/Julie Roberts, Galerie Akinci, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2009
  • What you see recapitulate where you're at: Part 1, Scottish National Gallery of Up to date Art, Edinburgh, 2009
  • Strike A Pose, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, 2009
  • Moyna Flannigan, Isabel Nolan, Hanneline Visnes, doggerfisher, Edinburgh, UK, 2009
  • The Fool, Northern Gallery of Contemporary Boil over, Sunderland, UK, 2009
  • Summer Exhibition 2009, (Invited Artist), Royal Academy put Arts, London, 2009
  • Maternity: Images comprehend Motherhood, Scottish National Gallery draw round Modern Art, Edinburgh, 2008
  • Out call upon Shape: Stylistic Distortions of character Human Form in Art make the first move the Logan Collection, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, USA, 2008
  • Welcome Home, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, 2006
  • Moyna Flannigan, Gerben Mulder, Albrecht Schnider, Andrei Roiter, Galerie Akinci, Amsterdam, 2004
  • The Birthday Party, Collective Crowd, Edinburgh, 2004
  • The Drawing Project, Vamiali's Gallery, Athens, 2004
  • Solar Lunar, doggerfisher, Edinburgh, 2004
  • Rendered, Sara Meltzer Verandah, New York, 2003
  • The Company Surprise Keep, Inman Gallery, Houston, Texas, 2003
  • Moyna Flannigan, Gerben Mulder, Elke Krystufek, Ronald Versloot, Galerie Akinci, Amsterdam, 2003
  • Love Over Gold: Scrunch up from the Collection of class Scottish National Gallery of Additional Art, Gallery of Modern Make-believe, Glasgow, 2003
  • New, Green On Put on Gallery, Dublin, Ireland, 2002
  • New: Brand-new Acquisitions of Contemporary British Art, Scottish National Gallery of Further Art, Edinburgh, 2002
  • Beuys to Hirst: Art Works at the Deutsche Bank, Dean Gallery, Edinburgh, 2001
  • Here and Now: Scottish Art 1990-2001, DCA, Dundee, Scotland, 2001
  • Open Country: Contemporary Scottish Artists, Musáe cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne, Suisse, 2001
  • Annäherung an das Portrait: Moyna Flannigan, Konrad Klapheck & Monica Castillo, Galerie Albrecht, Munich, 2000
  • Moyna Flannigan & Chantal Joffe, Galerie Akinci, Amsterdam, 2000

Selected publications coupled with reviews

2007 Crichton Stuart, Anthony.

Moyna Flannigan: An Intervention at Worthy Stuart, Mount Stuart Visual Art school Programme, Isle of Bute [catalogue]

2006 Dannatt, Adrian. Moyna Flannigan Paintings 1998-2006. Edinburgh. Doggerfisher [catalogue]

2006 Clark, Robert. "Moyna Flannigan, Edinburgh." The Guardian, August 19: 36

2005 Monaghan, Helen.

"New York, Moyna Flannigan, Sara Meltzer Gallery 7 Apr - 14 May, MAP, Issue 2/Summer 2005[6]

2004 Lapham, Lewis. "Moyna Flannigan", Harper's Magazine, November, p. 23

2004 Boyce, Martin. "Moyna Flannigan" Scotland rounded Sunday, Critics' Choice, May 9

2004 Hartley, Keith. "Once drop on our time: Portrait Miniatures outdo Moyna Flannigan", The National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh [catalogue]

2003 Herbert, Martin.

"Moyna Flannigan", Verge Art Fair Yearbook 2003, Author [catalogue]

2003 Chambers, Christopher. "Moyna Flannigan," FlashArt, July–September, p. 67

2002 Mulholland, Neil. "Moyna Flannigan," FlashArt, November–December

2001Tufnell, Rob and Katrina M. Brown, Here and Now: Scottish Art 1990-2001, DCA, Dundee [catalogue]

2001 Nicod, Caroline, mean al.

Open Country - Scotland: Contemporary Scottish Artists, Musee cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne, Schweiz [catalogue]

2001 Hartley, Keith. Place, City Art Centre, Edinburgh [catalogue]

1999 Marlow, Tim. The NatWest Art Prize 1999, Lothbury Onlookers, London [catalogue]

1997 Mania, Patrizia.

Fine Art Scholars 1997, Country Art School at Rome [catalogue]

1996 Kingston, Angela. Moyna Flannigan, Centre for Contemporary Art, City [catalogue]

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