Biography
1941
Born in Prestatyn, North Wales, 11 January
1957–58
Studied at Birmingham College of Art and Crafts
1964–66
Studied at St. Martin’s School of Art, London
1966
First solo exhibition, Rowan Gallery, London
1967–71
Taught at St. Martin’s School of Art and at Central School of Art and Crafts, London
1972
Gulbenkian Foundation grant to work with dance group, Strider, in London; choreographed two pieces
1977
Retrospective exhibition, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
1980
Commissioned by City of Ghent, Belgium, to produce outdoor sculpture for Sint Pietersplein
Sculpture ‘Camdonian’ commissioned by Camden Borough Council for Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London
1982
Represented Great Britain at the Venice Biennale; exhibition of stone and bronze sculptures 1973–1981 organised by The British Council
1983
Helped select sculpture in Oxford Schools Project
Made weathervane for the building Alan Sutton designed to house the Tate Gallery exhibition ‘Making Sculpture’
Interviewed by Melvyn Bragg for The South Bank Show, London Weekend Television, 23 January
1984
Two bronze sculptures, ‘Baby Elephant’ and ‘Hare on Bell’, installed at Equitable Life Tower West, New York
‘Nine Foot Hare’ bronze sculpture installed in atrium of Victoria Plaza, London
1985
Helped judge Bath Sculpture Competition
1986
Bronze sculpture ‘The Boxing Ones’ installed at Capability Green, Luton Hoo Estate, Bedfordshire
1987
Bronze sculpture ‘Kouros Horse’ installed at Hasbro Bradley, Stockley Park, Uxbridge
Elected Associate of the Royal Academy of Arts, London
1989
Participated in Self-Portrait, Channel 4 documentary, 27 August
1990
Two bronze ‘Leaping Hare’ sculptures commissioned by Kawakyo Company, Osaka, for main entrance to hotel on Japanese coast
Invited to create specific work – ‘Stage Door Johnny’ – for refurbishment of The Ivy restaurant, London
1992
‘Kouros Horse’ donated to Town Council of Santa Eulalia, Ibiza
1993–4
Major retrospective exhibition, organised in collaboration with The British Council, Fundación ‘la Caixa’, Madrid; touring to Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nantes
1996
‘Horse, Mirrored’ donated to Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery, Dublin
‘The Cricketer’, 1989 donated to Jesus College, Cambridge
Lives in Dublin
Solo Exhibitions
1966
Rowan Gallery, London
1968
Rowan Gallery, London
Galerie Ricke, Kassel, Germany
Galleria Dell’Ariete, Milan
Galleria Christian Stein, Turin
1969
Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany
Fishbach Gallery, New York
1970
Rowan Gallery, London
1971
Rowan Gallery, London
Galleria del Leone, Venice
1972
Rowan Gallery, London
1973
Rowan Gallery, London
1974
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool
‘Barry Flanagan: Drawing 1966–1974’, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
Rowan Gallery, London
Galleria Dell’Ariete, Milan
1975
Hogarth Galleries, Sydney
Art and Project, Amsterdam
1976
Hester van Royen Gallery, London
Centro de Arte y Communicación, Buenos Aires
1977
Art and Project, Amsterdam
Hester van Royen Gallery, London
Apeldoorn Museum, Holland
1977–79
‘Barry Flanagan: Sculpture 1966–1976’, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands; touring to Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol; Serpentine Gallery, London
1979
Art and Project, Amsterdam
1980
Galerie Durand-Dessert, Paris
‘Barry Flanagan: Sculptures in stone 1973–1979’, Waddington Galleries, London
New 57 Gallery, Edinburgh
1981
‘Barry Flanagan: Sculptures in bronze 1980–1981’, Waddington Galleries, London
1981–82
‘Sixties and Seventies: Prints and drawings by Barry Flanagan’, Mostyn Art Gallery, Llandudno, Wales; touring in collaboration with the Welsh Arts Council to Oriel Theatr Clwyd, Mold; Glynn Vivian Art Gallery and Museum, Swansea; John Hansard Gallery, Southampton; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
1982
Galerie Durand-Dessert, Paris
1982–83
‘Barry Flanagan, Stone and Bronze Sculptures’, British Council exhibition, British Pavilion, XXXX Biennale di Venezia; touring to Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld, Germany; Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
1983
Waddington Galleries, London
‘Barry Flanagan: Sculptures’, organised in collaboration with The British Council, Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
‘Barry Flanagan: Recent Sculpture’, The Pace Gallery, New York
Centro d’Arte Contemporanea, Syracuse, Italy; touring to Certosa di San Giacomo, Capri (prints and drawings)
1984
Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne
Waddington Graphics, London (etchings and linocuts)
1985
Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago
Waddington Galleries, London
Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo
1986
Tate Gallery, London (prints)
1987–88
‘Barry Flanagan – A Visual Invitation, Sculpture 1967–1987’, organised in collaboration with The British Council, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne; touring to Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade; Gallery of Contemporary Art, Zagreb; Modern Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
1988
Galerie Durand-Dessert, Paris
1990
Waddington Galleries and The Economist Plaza, London
The Pace Gallery, New York
1991
Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo
1992
Galerie Durand-Dessert, Paris
‘The Names of the Hare: Large bronzes by Barry Flanagan: 1983–1990’, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield
Galerie Eric van de Weghe, Brussels
Landau Fine Art, Montreal
1993–94
‘Barry Flanagan’, organised in collaboration with The British Council, Fundación ‘la Caixa’, Madrid; touring to Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes (retrospective)
1994
The Pace Gallery, New York
Galerie Hans Mayer, Dusseldorf
Waddington Galleries, London
Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago
1995
RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg
University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City
1995–96
‘Barry Flanagan on Park Avenue’, 54th to 59th Street, New York (organised by The Avenue Association and The British Council in cooperation with Waddington Galleries, London)
1996
‘Barry Flanagan: Sculpture in Grant Park’, Chicago (organised by Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago in cooperation with the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and the Chicago Park District)
Galerie Durand-Dessert, Paris
Galleria Karsten Greve, Milan
1997
Centre Cultural La Tecla Sala, Barcelona
Galerie Hans Mayer, Dusseldorf
‘Barry Flanagan: Bronzes, Dibuixos i Gravats’, Edicions T Galeria D’Art, Barcelona
1998
Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg
‘Barry Flanagan: Sculptures and ceramics’, Galerie von Bartha, Basel
‘Barry Flanagan and Pataphysics’, Crestet Centre d’Art, Valréas, France
Waddington Galleries and The Economist Plaza, London
1999
Xavier Hufkens, Brussels
2000
Tate Gallery, Liverpool
Exhibition Catalogues
1969
Wember, Paul: ‘Einführung zur Eröffnung der Ausstellung’, Barry Flanagan: Object Sculptures, Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany
1977
Lampert, Catherine: ‘Notes on Barry Flanagan’, Barry Flanagan: Sculpture 1966–1976, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
1978
Lampert, Catherine: ‘A further introduction to the work of Barry Flanagan’, Barry Flanagan: Sculpture 1965–78, Serpentine Gallery, London
1980
Lampert, Catherine: ‘Stone Sculptures’, Barry Flanagan: Sculptures in stone 1973–1979, Waddington Galleries, London
Brown, David: ‘Introduction’, Barry Flanagan, New 57 Gallery, Edinburgh
1981
Lampert, Catherine: ‘Prints and drawings by Barry Flanagan’, Sixties and Seventies: Prints and drawings by Barry Flanagan, Mostyn Art Gallery, Llandudno
Flanagan, Barry: ‘Bronze Sculptures’, Barry Flanagan: Sculptures in bronze 1980–1981, Waddington Galleries, London
1982
Hilton, Tim: ‘Less a Slave of Other People’s Thinking…’, and Compton, Michael, ‘A Developing Practice’, Barry Flanagan: Sculpture, Venice Biennale/The British Council, London
Gleadowe, Teresa: Barry Flanagan: stone and bronze sculptures (exhibition broadsheet), British Pavilion, Venice Biennale/The British Council, London
1983
Compton, Michael: ‘A Developing Practice’, Barry Flanagan: Recent Sculpture, The Pace Gallery, New York
Blistène, Bernard: ‘Gestes et opinions de Barry Flanagan’, and Lampert, Catherine, ‘Humanités modernes’, Barry Flanagan: Sculptures, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Paparoni, Demetrio: ‘Barry Flanagan’, Sixties and Seventies: Prints and drawings by Barry Flanagan, Centro d’Arte Contemporanea, Syracuse, Italy/The British Council, London
1984
Brown, David: Barry Flanagan: Etchings and Linocuts, Waddington Graphics, London
1985
Barry Flanagan, Waddington Galleries, London
Nakazawa, Shinichi: 'The Running of the Hare', and Toshiaki Minemura, 'The things that emerge from this side of the hand', Barry Flanagan, Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo
1986
Knowles, Elizabeth: Barry Flanagan: Prints 1970–1983, Tate Gallery, London
1987
Biggs, Lewis: Barry Flanagan: A Visual Invitation: Sculpture 1967–1987, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne/The British Council, London
Jankovic, Aleksandra: 'Between the Crust and the Idea', Barry Flanagan: A Visual Invitation, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade
1990
Barry Flanagan, Waddington Galleries, London
Barry Flanagan, The Pace Gallery, New York
1991
Renfrew, Colin: 'The Freedom of Flanagan', and Shinichi Nakazawa, 'The Running of the Hare', Barry Flanagan, Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo
1992
Lilley, Clare: 'Barry Flanagan', The Names of the Hare: Large bronzes by Barry Flanagan: 1983–1990, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield
Planells, Mariano: 'With Barry Flanagan', Barry Flanagan and Marcel Floris, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Ibiza
Landau, Robert: Barry Flanagan, Landau Fine Art, Montreal
1993
Juncosa, Enrique: ''The Eternal Present': The Sculpture of Barry Flanagan', and Thompson, Jon, 'Barry Flanagan: Artisan of Unreason', Barry Flanagan, Fundación 'la Caixa', Madrid and Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes
1994
Barry Flanagan: recent sculpture, The Pace Gallery, New York
Juncosa, Enrique: 'For the Meaning of Forms', Barry Flanagan, Waddington Galleries, London; re-published in 1995 for Royal Hibernian Academy, Gallagher Gallery, Dublin
Barry Flanagan: Recent Sculpture, Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago
1997
Juncosa, Enrique: 'Barry Flanagan's Doings and Sayings', Barry Flanagan: Bronzes, Dibuixos i Gravats, Edicions T Galeria D'Art, Barcelona
1998
Anderson, Simon: 'Barry Flanagan', Barry Flanagan – Sculpture, Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago
Barry Flanagan, Waddington Galleries, London
