Barry Flanagan - Photo by Carla Borel

Barry Flanagan

August 19, 2013

Barry Flanagan was a Welsh sculptor best known for his bronze statues of hares and other animals. From the outset his work has been perceived as radical and independent.

Born in Prestatyn, North Wales, Flanagan studied architecture at Birmingham College of Art and Crafts and the received a Vocational Diploma in Sculpture at St. Martin's School of Art in London in 1964. Flanagan graduated in 1966 and taught at St. Martin's School of Art and the Central School of Arts and Crafts, between 1967 and 1971. In 1991 was elected to the Royal Academy and he received the OBE. He exhibited in a range of venues, including Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, Tate Britain, Waddington Galleries, London, New Art Centre, Roche Court, Salisbury, Wiltshire, Vero Beach Museum of Art, Vero Beach, Florida, Waddington Galleries, London and Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York. His is included in several public collections, such as The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., the Tate Gallery in London, the Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst in Ghent, and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.

Flanagan is known for his dynamic, often monumental, bronze hares, which spring into life. Fusing the everyday, the imaginary and fantastical, he moulded clay into animal forms, hares, elephants, dogs and horses. His idiosyncratic style employs an elongated stylization of form, similar to Alberto Giacometti.

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