Adrian Flaherty

I am a South Londoner since birth. My "Home-Works" which I have been working on for the last 7 years project developed at the same time as the debates over Brexit were being formed. However, since completing my degree course my work has moved away from this more introverted, self-improvement way of working to one where I have also been addressing the need to make connections to others and to work.

This was the basis of the project producing paintings in response to each bridge along the River Thames (currently up to the edge of London). This project also developed the ideas around the question of where is home and led to ideas of what makes up someone's personality in some of my paintings of figures.

I have worked across a variety of media, but am now concentrating on paintings with chance processes often incorporated. For example in my Thames project contrasting the flows of the river in London with the structures of the bridges expressing the juxtaposition between nature and the man-made and the chaos/order of city life. I am at the early stages of another project walking the coastal paths along the west coast of England producing paintings of beaches and cliffs again representing the unpredictability and structure of the ...

Foundation Course in Art and Design, University of the Arts London (1996)
BA Architecture (2 years completed) University of the Creative Arts (2001-3)
BA Sculpture University of the Arts London (2016)

2021
-All Landscape Art, Contempoary Art Gallery Online,
-Figuative, Light, Space, Time
2020
-The Body Language, Its Liquid at The Room, Venice,
-Borders, Its Liquid at The Room, Venice
-Natural Rhythms, Sharp Gallery, London.
2019
-City Life, Candid Arts Trust, London
-Open Exhibition for London Festival of Architecture, London Bridge Hotel, London
-Living Room (Solo Exhibition), The Bethlem Gallery, London
-Cityscapes, Light, Space Time
-Environments: The Outside In National Competition, Piano Nobile
2018
-City, Art Room Gallery,
-Urban Landscapes, J. Mane Gallery
2017
-All that Glitters is not Gold, Camden Art Centre, London