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Moyna Flannigan (born 1963) is a Scottish artist working primarily in drawing, collage and painting.
Flannigan is best known for her imagined paintings of women in psychologically charged situations. "The real subject of my paintings is space, both physical and psychological. [...] Space in a painting is not simply an environment for action; it’s a place with formal relationships that have inherent hidden meaning."
Education and teaching
Flannigan was born in Kirkcaldy in 1963. She obtained a Bachelor of Arts from Edinburgh College of Art in 1985 and a Master of Fine Art from Yale University School of Art, New Haven, Connecticut in 1987. Formerly a lecturer in painting at Glasgow School of Art (1995 - 2005), Flannigan was a teaching fellow at Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh (2015-2019).
Influences
The Glasgow Herald in 2014, at the time of her Generations show, Flannigan discussed drawing inspiration from the work of surrealist sculptor Alberto Giacometti. His work Femme égorgée (Woman With Her Throat Cut) "fed its way into her subconscious". She has also drawn inspiration from the 1979 art film, Stalker, directed by Andrei Tarkovsky, and from Masaccio's masterly 15th-century fresco, Expulsion From The Garden Of Eden in the Brancacci Chapel, Florence, which she visited as part of her residency at the British School at Rome.
While Giacometti's 1932 bronze, is "a worrying human-insect hybrid, a splayed, disembowelled figure part praying mantis, part crime victim, Flannigan turns up the volume of Giacometti's angst-ridden attitude to the female form; her own painted figures echo his sculpture's splayed structure, but are defiantly, terrifyingly alive with their blood red lips and stiletto heels".
Exhibitions
= Solo exhibitions
=Girl With Tear, A-M-G5, Glasgow, 2019
Tear, NOW, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art Edinburgh, 2018–19
earth sky body, Gimpel Fils, London, 2015
white heart beating, Galerie Akinci, Amsterdam, 2015
Stare, part of GENERATION: 25 Years of Contemporary Art in Scotland, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, 2014
The Body Stretches to the Edge, Galerie Akinci, Amsterdam, 2013
New Work by Moyna Flannigan – What you see is where you’re at, Part 3, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art Edinburgh
Trouble Loves Me, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, 2009
Sphinx, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, 2008
Moyna Flannigan: A footprint in the hall, Mount Stuart Visual Arts Programme, Mount Stuart, Isle of Bute, Scotland
Well, well, doggerfisher, Edinburgh, 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 National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, 2004
Knucklehead, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, 2003
I'm a stranger here myself, doggerfisher, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2002
I think about it almost all the time, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, 2002
I could be happy with you, Gallery Akinci, Amsterdam, 2001
Gallery Albrecht, Munich, Germany, 2000
Lotta Hammer Gallery, London, 1998
The British School at Rome, 1997
CCA, Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow, 1996
= Selected group exhibitions
=Cute Carnival curated by Rachel Maclean, Birmingham City Art Gallery, 2019
Mirrors: when we hunt reality and hang its skin upon our walls, A-M-G5, Glasgow, 2019
Where the f*ck is my sock, Galerie Akinci, Amsterdam 2017
The Female Gaze, Pallant House Gallery, Chicester, 2017
Face 2 Face, Torre Abbey Museum, Torquay, 2017
Paper Trail: Drawings|Watercolours|Prints, City Art Centre, Edinburgh, 2017
INK: Public Archive - Five Decades of Printmaking at The Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow, UK, 2017
That Which Remains, Mount Stuart, Isle of Bute, Scotland, 2016
now now, Andrew Cranston, Moyna Flannigan, Graeme Todd, West Barns Arts, Dunbar, Scotland, 2016
Drawing on Drawing, Andrew Grant Gallery, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh, 2016
Face to Face: British Portrait Prints from the Clifford Chance Collection, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, 2014
The Miniature Museum, Gemeentemmuseum Den Haag, Netherlands, 2013
Collectors' Choice, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, 2013
Dressed To Kill, City Art Centre, Edinburgh, 2013
Teasers, Selected Works from the Pizzuti Collection by Women Artists, Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, Ohio, USA, 2012
Pincushion, a Polarcap Exhibition, John Gray Centre, Haddington, Scotland, 2012
Twisted Sister, Dodge Gallery, New York, 2012
A Parliament of Lines, City Art Centre, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2012
To Have a Voice, Mackintosh Gallery, Glasgow School of Art, Scotland, 2012
VANHUIT HIER – OUT OF HERE: The Collectors Show, Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, Netherlands 2011
Melting Point, Galerie Akinci, Amsterdam, 2011
Playboy Redux: Contemporary Artists Interpret the Iconic Playboy Bunny, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, USA, 2010
Moyna Flannigan/Julie Roberts, Galerie Akinci, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2009
What you see is where you're at: Part 1, Scottish National Gallery of Modern 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 Art, Sunderland, UK, 2009
Summer Exhibition 2009, (Invited Artist), Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2009
Maternity: Images of Motherhood, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, 2008
Out of Shape: Stylistic Distortions of the Human Form in Art from 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 Gallery, Edinburgh, 2004
The Drawing Project, Vamiali's Gallery, Athens, 2004
Solar Lunar, doggerfisher, Edinburgh, 2004
Rendered, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, 2003
The Company We Keep, Inman Gallery, Houston, Texas, 2003
Moyna Flannigan, Gerben Mulder, Elke Krystufek, Ronald Versloot, Galerie Akinci, Amsterdam, 2003
Love Over Gold: Works from the Collection of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, 2003
New, Green On Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland, 2002
New: Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary British Art, Scottish National Gallery of Modern 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, Switzerland, 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 and reviews
2007 Crichton Stuart, Anthony. Moyna Flannigan: An Intervention at Mount Stuart, Mount Stuart Visual Arts 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
2004 Lapham, Lewis. "Moyna Flannigan", Harper's Magazine, November, p. 23
2004 Boyce, Martin. "Moyna Flannigan" Scotland on Sunday, Critics' Choice, May 9
2004 Hartley, Keith. "Once upon our time: Portrait Miniatures by Moyna Flannigan", The National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh [catalogue]
2003 Herbert, Martin. "Moyna Flannigan", Frieze Art Fair Yearbook 2003, London [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, et al. Open Country - Scotland: Contemporary Scottish Artists, Musee cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne, Switzerland [catalogue]
2001 Hartley, Keith. Locale, City Art Centre, Edinburgh [catalogue]
1999 Marlow, Tim. The NatWest Art Prize 1999, Lothbury Gallery, London [catalogue]
1997 Mania, Patrizia. Fine Art Scholars 1997, British Art School at Rome [catalogue]
1996 Kingston, Angela. Moyna Flannigan, Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow [catalogue]
References
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Moyna Flannigan
- Edinburgh College of Art
- GENERATION: 25 Years of Contemporary Art in Scotland
- City Art Centre
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