Brian Bourke
Brian Bourke
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.
WORKS
Brian Bourke
Sweeney Vigilant
Mixed media on paper
104 x 69cm
1988
Sweeney Vigilant
Mixed media on paper
104 x 69cm
1988
Brian Bourke
Sweeney Twice
Mixed media on paper
104 x 69cm
1988
Sweeney Twice
Mixed media on paper
104 x 69cm
1988
Brian Bourke
Sweeney Crouched
Mixed media on paper
104 x 69cm
1988
Sweeney Crouched
Mixed media on paper
104 x 69cm
1988
Brian Bourke
Leaping the Holly Tree
Mixed media on paper
104 x 69cm
1988
Leaping the Holly Tree
Mixed media on paper
104 x 69cm
1988
Brian Bourke
"Out of the Head IV"
Drawing
31.5cm x 39cm
Framed
"Out of the Head IV"
Drawing
31.5cm x 39cm
Framed
Brian Bourke
“Contemplating the Ineluctable II”
Mixed media on paper
43 x 35cm
Framed
1985
“Contemplating the Ineluctable II”
Mixed media on paper
43 x 35cm
Framed
1985
Brian Bourke
"Out of the Head II"
Drawing
31.5cm x 39cm
Framed
"Out of the Head II"
Drawing
31.5cm x 39cm
Framed
Brian Bourke
"Contemplating the Ineluctable IX"
Mixed media on paper
43 x 35cm
"Contemplating the Ineluctable IX"
Mixed media on paper
43 x 35cm
Brian Bourke
"Contemplating the Ineluctable IV"
Mixed media on paper
34 x 28cm
Framed
"Contemplating the Ineluctable IV"
Mixed media on paper
34 x 28cm
Framed
Brian Bourke
"Contemplating the Ineluctable V"
Mixed media on paper
36 x 43cm
Framed
"Contemplating the Ineluctable V"
Mixed media on paper
36 x 43cm
Framed
Brian Bourke
"Out of the Head VIII"
Mixed media on paper
36 x 43cm
Framed
"Out of the Head VIII"
Mixed media on paper
36 x 43cm
Framed
Brian Bourke
"Contemplating the Ineluctable III"
Mixed media on paper
43 x 35cm
"Contemplating the Ineluctable III"
Mixed media on paper
43 x 35cm
Brian Bourke
"Polycephaly V"
Mixed media on paper
34 x 28cm
Framed
"Polycephaly V"
Mixed media on paper
34 x 28cm
Framed
Brian Bourke
"Polycephaly XII"
Mixed media on paper
43 x 35cm
"Polycephaly XII"
Mixed media on paper
43 x 35cm
Brian Bourke
"Polycephaly II"
Mixed media on paper
53.5 x 43cm
Framed
"Polycephaly II"
Mixed media on paper
53.5 x 43cm
Framed
Brian Bourke
"Polycephaly III"
Mixed media on paper
53.5 x 43cm
Framed
"Polycephaly III"
Mixed media on paper
53.5 x 43cm
Framed
Brian Bourke
"Polycephaly I"
Mixed media on paper
53.5 x 43cm
Framed
"Polycephaly I"
Mixed media on paper
53.5 x 43cm
Framed
