Kilcock Art Gallery - 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 – 2012 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.

In 1995, Kilcock Art Gallery brought an exhibition of Michael Flaherty’s paintings to New York. This exhibition was held in Glucksman Ireland House, NYU and was opened by Dick Spring, Tanaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and also an opening speech by Mrs. Loretto Brennan Glucksman. This was a great success for both Michael Flaherty and the Gallery. The exhibition brought Michael Flaherty’s vision of Ireland and especially Kerry to a greater public. Michael is a confident colourist with a bold impasto technique not unlike his famous predecessor Jack B. Yeats. He creates in oils the wildness and vigour of the rugged mountains and seas that surround him in the Dingle Peninsula. He paints the real Ireland – the snow, the light and the colour of a rainy day!

The NTMA (National Treasury Management Agency ) who purchased a number of Michael’s paintings, has included these paintings in their Annual Report for three year running. The vibrant wild colours in these paintings were a wonderful ‘back-drop’ to this manual of figures!

In 2002 the gallery commissioned Michael to visit Tuscany and paint, resulting in a Solo Exhibition of Tuscany

2012 Michael produced a series of life paintings, showing again his skill as a draughtsman and painter.

Michael Flaherty

Michael Flaherty has work in the following exhibitions: