Barry Flanagan

(Welsh, 1941–2009)

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Barry Flanagan

Monument, 1995

Price on Request

Biography

Timeline

1941
Born in Prestatyn, Wales, UK
1957 - 1958
Studied at Birmingham College of Art and Crafts
1964 - 1966
Studied at Central Saint Martin's School of Art in London
1967 - 1971
Taught at Central Saint Martin's School of Art and the Central School of Arts and Crafts
2009
Died in Santa Eularia des Riu, Ibiza

Exhibitions

2018
Barry Flanagan Selected Exhibitions in 2018:
Barry Flanagan, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY (solo exhibition)
2017
Barry Flanagan Selected Exhibitions in 2017:
Barry Flanagan, Light pieces and other works, & Model, Leeds (solo exhibition)
Barry Flanagan, Small Bronzes, Galerie Lelong, Paris, France (solo exhibition)
Rodin, l’exposition du centenaire, Grand Palais, Paris, France
That Continuous Thing: Artists and the Ceramics Studio, 1920-Today, Tate St. Ives, St. Ives, UK
2016
Barry Flanagan Selected Exhibitions in 2016:
Animal, Vegetable, Mineral, Waddington Custot Galleries, London, UK (solo exhibition)
Barry Flanagan sand girl, Tate Britain, London, UK (solo exhibition)
A Lesson in Sculpture with John Latham, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK
Autonomy, Gallery 46, London, UK
Basquiat, Dubuffet, Soulages…, Fondation de l’Hermitage, Lausanne, Switzerland
Besttiarium: Sirene et Sourire, Espace d’Art Francois-Auguste Ducros, Grignan, France
City Sculpture Projects 1972, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK
Conceptual Art in Britain: 1964-1979, Tate Britain, London, UK
Ein Loch im Meer, Wuttembergischr Kunstverin Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
Fiac! On Site – Petit Palais, FIAC, Paris, France
Finding Ling-Ling’s Head, Cookie Butcher, Antwerp, Belgium
Flesh: Skin and Surface, York Art Gallery, York, UK
Fortnum’s X Frank, Fortnum & Mason, London, UK
Frieze Sculpture Park, Regent’s Park, London, UK
In the Making: Ruskin, Creativity and Craftmanship, Millennium Gallery, Sheffield, UK
Nigel Greenwood Inc Ltd: Running a Picture Gallery, Chelsea Space, London, UK
Out There: Our Post-War Public Art, East Wing Galleries, Somerset House, London, UK
Outside IN: Art Inspired by the Landscape, Belsay Hall, Castle and Gardens, Northumberland, UK
Seeing Round Corners, the Art of the Circle, Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK
Stories in Sculpture: Selections from the Walker Art Center Collection, Denver Botanic Gardens, Denver, CO
The Science of Imaginary Solutions, Breese Little, London, UK
The Shift, Eight Years of Flat Time House, Flat Time House, London, UK
2015
Barry Flanagan Selected Exhibitions in 2015:
one ton corner piece ’67, 1967 and heap 3 ‘67/68, 1967/8, Cullinan Richards, London, UK (solo exhibition)
Beyond Limits: The Landscape of British Sculpture 1950-2015, Chatsworth House, Chesterfield, UK
Five Issues of Studio International, Raven Row, London, UK
In Peril on the Sea: Sailing Ships, Stormy Seas, Chelsea Space, London, UK
Making It, Sculpture in Britain, 1977-1986, Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Yorkshire, UK; Mead Gallery, University of Warwick Arts Centre, Convetry, UK; City of Edinburgh Art Centre, Edinburgh, Scotland
One More Time, L’Exposition De Nos Expositions, Mamco, Geneva, Switzerland “Palindromes” Flat time house, London, UK
2014
Barry Flanagan Selected Exhibitions in 2014:
Two Pataphysicians, Waddington Custot Galleries, London, UK (solo exhibition)
Uncommon Ground: Land Art in Britain 1966-1979, Mead Gallery, University of Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry, UK
Uncommon Ground: Land Art in Britain 1966-1979, Longside Gallery, Yorkshire, UK
2013
Barry Flanagan Selected Exhibitions in 2013:
Barry Flanagan, Flying Nessies, Galerie Lelong, Paris, UK (solo exhibition)
Kansai Collections, National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
Uncommon Ground: Land Art in Britain 1966-1979, Southampton Art Gallery, UK
The New Situation – Art in London in the Sixties, Sotheby’s, London, UK
Uncommon Ground: Land Art in Britain 1966-1979, National Museum of Wales, Cardiff
2008
Gow Langsford Gallery Spring Catalogue Exhibition, Auckland, New Zealand
2003
Musée d'Art moderne et d'Art contemporain, Nice Narborough Hall, Norfolk
2000
Tate Gallery, Liverpool
1999
Xavier Hufkens, Brussels

Public Collections

Art Institute of Chicago
Nagoya Museum, Japan
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
National Museums and Galleries of Wales, Cardiff
Osaka City Museum of Modern Art
Peterborough Development Corporation
Phoenix Community Garden, London
Rawlins Upper School and Community College, Quorn, Leicestershire
Rijksmuseum Kröller Müller, Otterlo, The Netherlands