The Doorway Gallery is delighted to host an exhibition by Michael Flaherty called ‘Short Stories’ which will officially open on Thursday, May 9th between 6-8pm on 24 South Frederick Street by Critic, Stephanie McBride. The exhibition will run until May 30th.
“No city or landscape is truly real until it has been given the quality of myth by a writer or painter, or its association with great events. The way Michael Flaherty is dealing with the Brandon area is part of this mythologizing, the making of this area very special” . Born in Cloghane, Brandon Co. Kerry Michael Flaherty’s true vocation to painting came out of curiosity. He attended school at Killarney, then graduated with a BA in UCC and a H. Dip in Maynooth in 1974. He never really wanted to teach so he took a year out lived in Inniscarra and came to drawing almost out of boredom. He states that he basically found a pencil, “I thought this was it – it was like discovering language” . He took night classes at the Crawford and benefited from his teacher of John Burke. He then applied to Sligo School of Art and was accepted on enthusiasm alone. Here he was taught by John O’Leary. It was here that he found his style. He spent some time in Edinburgh but he returned to Kerry after the death of a relative in 1988 and evolved this style until it was personal to him. READ MORE
“Where the earlier, more colourful paintings were about surface, now there is a sense of layered process, of great stretches of time and slow change.” Aidan Dunne, Irish Times
I’m stunned (with delight).” Sighle Bhreathnach-Lynch, Curator of Irish Art, National gallery of Ireland
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‘At the Well’
An exhibition of new paintings by Brian McDonagh
June 6th – June 24th
The Doorway Gallery is delighted to host an exhibition by Brian McDonagh called ‘At the Well’ which will officially open on Thursday, June 6th between 6-8pm on 24 South Frederick Street by Irish singer/songwriter, Brian Kennedy . The exhibition will run until June 24th. READ MORE
