Archive 2017-18
Moyna Flannigan
- Venue: Fine Art Lecture Theatre
- Start: Tue, 24 Apr 2018 17:15:00 BST
- End: Tue, 24 Apr 2018 19:00:00 BST
Moyna Flannigan paints images of fictional characters who reflect the mood of our time. Her paintings and works on paper cast a critical and often humorous eye on the effects of power on personal, cultural and political identity. Although they have their roots in Flannigan’s keen observation of the world around her, her figures have increasingly developed a more mythical quality. Their failings, incongruities or follies are our own, only more spectacular and more compelling.
She develops her paintings slowly, working on more than one painting at a time. Light and space are created through successive layers of contrasting colours. the image forms after many changes, additions and subtractions. She does not work from photographs or models but builds an image from a multitude of sources, which are passed through the filter of her memory and vivid imagination. Her recent paintings of women present the female figure on a monumental scale, challenging the stereotype of female representation in painting.
https://www.moynaflannigan.com/