Michael Flaherty

1950	Michael Flaherty was born on the Dingle Peninsula, Co.Kerry
1969-1973	B.A. Degree U.C.C. and H Dip Ed. National University, Maynooth.
1973-1977	Municipal Art College, Cork.  &   Sligo R.T.C.

Solo Exhibitions
Kilcock Art Gallery     1992 – 2008	Sligo Art Gallery
Arches Gallery-Edinburgh	Ginnel Gallery - Manchester
Peacock Theatre – Dublin	Cork Arts Society
Hendricks Gallery – Dublin	Sligo Arts Festival
Heritage Centre – Derry	Siamsa – Tralee
Mount Street Gallery – Dublin	Kenny’s Gallery – Galway
Listowel Writers Week	Wellspring Gallery – Tralee
Greenlane  Gallery – Dingle	Grant Fine Art – Co. Down
New York University	Cork Art Society
Guinness Hop Store – Dublin	Vanguard Gallery – Macroom
Lavit Gallery – Cork	Blue Raincoats Theatre, Sligo
Dalkey Castle	Brendan Kennelly Summer School, Ballylongford
Collections
A.I.B. Group	Dublin City University
Irish Life Insurance	Arthur Anderson & Co
Ulster Investment Bank	I.B.E.C.
Department of an Tanaiste	A.I.B., New York
Electricity Supply Board	Merrill Lynch Corporate Finance
Glanbia plc	Vincent Ferguson Collection
Lee Strand, Tralee	National Treasury Management Agency
Government Offices	DAIWA Bank Plc, New York
O.P.W.
National Portrait Collection, University of Limerick	Commerz Bank, Frankfurt, Germany
New York University, Washington Square, N.Y.	Irish Intercontinental Bank, Dublin
Irish Management Institute.	United Drug plc.
Dock Holdings Ltd.	Brian Burns Collection, U.S.A.
Guinness Peat Aviation	ABN Amro.
St. Lukes Hospital.	Irish Permanent plc.
Colourtech Computing Ltd.	Kerry Foods plc.
Central Bank of Ireland, Dublin	Bausch & Lomb, Waterford
International Company Services (Irl.) Ltd	Shannon Development
Mrs. Jean Kennedy Smyth, Former US Ambassador to Ireland.

FOREWORD "Michael Flahery 2008"

“With his Spring 2008 collection at the Kilcock Gallery, Michael Flaherty’s paintings emerge from the sub strata of gouged out shadows and imploding layers to embrace explosive distant horizons and heights as they awaken the Spring.

Flaherty’s new collection plays with a palette that’s light in tone but nonetheless vigorous and searching. He creates a maelstrom of contrasting, often clashing colours, which blend to make strange yet compatible bed fellows. The viewer is invited to dive into the energy of an impulsive Atlantic swell or meditate on the gentle whisperings of the sea’s ebbing shore.

Flaherty’s painterly signature is evident: his representations of Irish skies, ever changing, commanding and multi-dimensional.
His wildflower paintings, with wind blowing through foliage capture resilient life forces.
True to his oeuvre, Flaherty pays homage to Ireland’s precious rural landscape, West and South. Not for him the scurrying consumerism of our age. He takes time to walk the land, to mind–map neglected and unexplored places. He playfully reveals majestic, ancient forms and shapes, reminding us of what we have forgotten. We are invited to stop and absorb the energy of these works, feel the illuminating light and visit these hidden rural spaces and proud places.

His fearless visual mastery of the country’s wilder outcrops confirms his unique and constant place among Ireland’s outstanding artists.”

Maura Logue.
Arts Officer, Donegal Co.Co.