Moyna Flannigan
Moyna Flannigan (born 1963) is a Scottish artist working primarily in drawing, collage and painting. Flannigan is best known for her imagined paintings of women in psychologically charged situations. "The real subject of my paintings is space, both physical and psychological. [...] Space in a painting is not simply an environment for action; it’s a place with formal relationships that have inherent hidden meaning." Education and teaching. Flannigan was born in Kirkcaldy in 1963. She obtained a Bachelor of Arts from Edinburgh College of Art in 1985 and a Master of Fine Art from Yale University School of  Art, New Haven, Connecticut in 1987. Formerly a lecturer in painting at Glasgow School of Art (1995 - 2005), Flannigan was a teaching fellow at Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh (2015-2019). Influences. The Glasgow Herald in 2014, at the time of her "Generations" show, Flannigan discussed drawing inspiration from the work of surrealist sculptor Alberto Giacometti. His work Femme égorgée (Woman With Her Throat Cut) "fed its way into her subconscious". She has also drawn inspiration from the 1979 art film, "Stalker", directed by Andrei Tarkovsky, and from Masaccio's masterly 15th-century fresco, "Expulsion From The Garden  Of Eden" in the Brancacci Chapel, Florence, which she visited as part of her residency in Rome. While Giacometti's 1932 bronze, is "a worrying human-insect hybrid, a splayed, disembowelled figure part praying mantis, part crime victim, Flannigan turns up the volume of Giacometti's angst-ridden attitude to the female form; her own painted figures echo his sculpture's splayed structure, but are defiantly, terrifyingly alive with their blood red lips and stiletto heels". Selected publications and reviews. 2007 Crichton Stuart, Anthony. Moyna Flannigan: An Intervention at Mount Stuart, Mount Stuart Visual Arts Programme, Isle of Bute [catalogue ] 2006 Dannatt, Adrian. Moyna Flannigan Paintings 1998-2006. Edinburgh. Doggerfisher [catalogue] 2006 Clark, Robert. "Moyna Flannigan, Edinburgh." The Guardian, August 19: 36 2005 Monaghan, Helen. "New York, Moyna Flannigan, Sara Meltzer Gallery 7 Apr - 14 May, MAP, Issue 2/Summer 2005 2004 Lapham, Lewis. "Moyna Flannigan", Harper's Magazine, November, p. 23 2004 Boyce, Martin. "Moyna Flannigan" Scotland on Sunday, Critics' Choice, May 9 2004 Hartley, Keith. "Once upon our time: Portrait Miniatures by Moyna Flannigan", The National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh [catalogue] 2003 Herbert, Martin. "Moyna Flannigan", Frieze Art Fair Yearbook 2003, London [catalogue] 2003 Chambers, Christopher. "Moyna Flannigan ," FlashArt, July–September, p. 67 2002 Mulholland, Neil. "Moyna Flannigan," FlashArt, November–December 2001Tufnell, Rob and Katrina M. Brown, Here and Now: Scottish Art 1990-2001, DCA, Dundee [catalogue] 2001 Nicod, Caroline, et al. Open Country - Scotland: Contemporary Scottish Artists, Musee cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne, Switzerland [catalogue] 2001 Hartley, Keith. Locale, City Art Centre, Edinburgh [catalogue] 1999 Marlow, Tim. The NatWest Art Prize 1999, Lothbury Gallery, London [catalogue] 1997 Mania, Patrizia. Fine Art Scholars 1997, British Art School at Rome [catalogue] 1996 Kingston, Angela. Moyna Flannigan, Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow [catalogue]