Brian Bourke
{{Short description|Irish artist}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Infobox artist
| name = Brian Bourke
| birth_date = 1936
| birth_place = Dublin, Ireland
| nationality = Irish
| known_for = Landscape artist, self-portrait artist
}}
Brian Bourke (born 1936 in Dublin) is an Irish artist.{{Cite web |title=Brian Bourke |url=https://imma.ie/artists/brian-bourke/ |access-date=2022-12-14 |website=IMMA |language=en-IE}}
Life
Bourke was born in Dublin in 1936. His parents were Thomas Bourke (Tómas de Búrca) and Eileen (Eibhlín) Bourke (née Somers).{{Cite web |last=Lunney |first=Linde |date=2010 |title=Bourke, Fergus (Ignatius) {{!}} Dictionary of Irish Biography |url=https://www.dib.ie/biography/bourke-fergus-ignatius-a9339 |access-date=2022-12-14 |website=www.dib.ie |language=en}} 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).{{Cite web |title=Review: Brian Bourke, Five Decades: 1960s-2000s by Brian Bourke |url=https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/books/review-brian-bourke-five-decades-1960s-2000s-by-brian-bourke-26804060.html |access-date=2022-12-14 |website=independent |date=24 October 2010 |language=en}} He later studied at Saint Martin's School of Art in London. 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.{{Cite web |title=Brian Bourke |url=https://www.tcd.ie/artcollections/assets/pdf/biographies/BOURKE-Brian.pdf |access-date=14 December 2022 |website=TCD Art Collections}} He travelled across Europe in the 1960s and 1970s.
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|date=December 2022}} and first prize in the Irish Exhibition of Living Art competition in 1967. He was included in the Delighted Eye, the Hibernian landscape{{Cite web |date=2005-09-23 |title=The Collection - Dublin City University |url=http://www.dcu.ie/arts/37.htm |access-date=2022-12-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050923232505/http://www.dcu.ie/arts/37.htm |archive-date=23 September 2005 }} and the Cork Rosc exhibitions in 1980.
In 1985, he was named Sunday Independent Artist of the Year,{{Cite web |title=Kildare County Council Arts Service - Brian Bourke |url=https://kildarecoco.ie/ArtsService/MunicipalCollection/MunicipalCollectionintro/BrianBourke/ |access-date=2022-12-14 |website=kildarecoco.ie}} and he received the O'Malley Award from the Irish-American Cultural Institute in 1993. A retrospective of his work was exhibited as part of the Galway Arts Festival in 1988.
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.
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|date=December 2022}} He lives in Connemara, County Galway. Bourke held another retrospective exhibition in the Claremorris Gallery in 2022.{{Cite web |date=18 March 2022 |title=Never seen before works by artist Brian Bourke for Mayo exhibition |url=https://www.con-telegraph.ie/2022/03/18/never-seen-before-works-by-artist-brian-bourke-for-mayo-exhibition/ |access-date=2022-12-14 |website=Connaught Telegraph |language=en-US}} He is a member of the Aosdána and an honorary member of the Royal Hibernian Academy.{{Cite web |title=Brian Burke: Artist Talk |url=https://dublin.ie/whats-on/listings/brian-burke-artist-talk/ |access-date=2022-12-14 |website=Dublin.ie}}
Bourke's brother was the photographer Fergus Bourke. Bourke has married twice, first to Ann, a lecturer at NCAD, and secondly to Jay Murphy, also an artist.
References
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External links
- [https://graphicstudiodublin.com/artist/bourke-brian/ Selection of Bourke's work at the Graphic Studio Dublin]
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