TWO SHOWS

Born in Dublin in 1936, Brian Bourke is one of the most prominent artists of his generation of Irish painters and an enduring influence on his contemporaries with a career that has spanned over sixty years. Brian studied briefly at the National College of Art in Dublin and St. Martin’s School of Art in London. He represented Ireland at the Paris Biennale and the Lugano Exhibition of Graphics, both in 1965. He won the Arts Council portrait competition in 1965, the Munster and Leinster Bank competition in 1966 and first prize in the Irish Exhibition of Living Art competition in 1967. In 1985, he was named Sunday Independent Artist of the Year, and he received the O’Malley Award from the Irish-American Cultural Institute in 1993.