Brian Bourke

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Brian Bourke (born 1936 in Dublin) is an Irish artist. [1]

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Life

Bourke was born in Dublin in 1936. His parents were Thomas Bourke (Tómas de Búrca) and Eileen (Eibhlín) Bourke (née Somers). [2] Bourke left school early and got a job in the art department of the Player Wills tobacco company on the condition he enrolled at the National College of Art and Design (NCAD). [3] He later studied at Saint Martin's School of Art in London. [1] After London, he spent time in Germany and was strongly influence by the Neue Sachlichkeit art movement. He returned to Dublin in 1957 and held his first one-man show in Dublin in 1964 at the Dawson Gallery. [4] He travelled across Europe in the 1960s and 1970s. [3]

In 1965 Bourke won an Arts Council prize for portraiture and represented Ireland at the Biennale de Paris. He won the Munster and Leinster Bank competition in 1966,[ citation needed ] and first prize in the Irish Exhibition of Living Art competition in 1967. [1] He was included in the Delighted Eye, the Hibernian landscape [5] and the Cork Rosc exhibitions in 1980. [4]

In 1985, he was named Sunday Independent Artist of the Year, [6] and he received the O'Malley Award from the Irish-American Cultural Institute in 1993. [1] A retrospective of his work was exhibited as part of the Galway Arts Festival in 1988. [5]

In 1991, he was artist-in-residence at the Gate Theatre's Beckett Festival in Dublin, with accompanying works appearing at the Douglas Hyde Gallery. [4]

In 2001, a large exhibition of his portraits of women, centred on portraits of his son's adopted daughter, appeared at the Dyehouse Gallery in Waterford.[ citation needed ] He lives in Connemara, County Galway. Bourke held another retrospective exhibition in the Claremorris Gallery in 2022. [7] He is a member of the Aosdána and an honorary member of the Royal Hibernian Academy. [8]

Bourke's brother was the photographer Fergus Bourke. [2] Bourke has married twice, first to Ann, a lecturer at NCAD, and secondly to Jay Murphy, also an artist. [3]

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  3. 1 2 3 "Review: Brian Bourke, Five Decades: 1960s-2000s by Brian Bourke". independent. Retrieved 14 December 2022.
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  5. 1 2 "The Collection - Dublin City University". 23 September 2005. Archived from the original on 23 September 2005. Retrieved 14 December 2022.
  6. ↑ "Kildare County Council Arts Service - Brian Bourke". kildarecoco.ie. Retrieved 14 December 2022.
  7. ↑ "Never seen before works by artist Brian Bourke for Mayo exhibition". Connaught Telegraph. 18 March 2022. Retrieved 14 December 2022.
  8. ↑ "Brian Burke: Artist Talk". Dublin.ie. Retrieved 14 December 2022.
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