Si Flatley

I completed undergraduate and postgraduate study in painting, concerning myself with postmodern theory and debates in reflexivity. I became focused upon pure abstraction with no reference to the external world and researched the problem of meaning in art. My postgraduate art concluded in the non-use of the paintbrush. Subsequent professional experience as an artist reconnected me to art without intellectualisation, and with the paintbrush once more. Now as a practising fine artist, a re-integration of theory and practice has occurred. Aware of the real world but by no means trying to represent it. Aware of painting as process and questions of connotation yet finding discernible meaning through semblance and form.


My paintings do not seek to disengage with the sensory world nor to uphold it. I do not use art historical colour references for style or meaning and do not attempt to fit into the illustrious lineage of painters who deal with this subject matter. My paintings are truly contemporary. They attempt to occupy a space 'in-between' where experience and the inner life meet. From palette to canvas, an epistemological exploration occurs in a meeting of the mind and the empirical world. My paintings do not exclusively inhabit...

BA Honours Degree in Fine Art & Philosophy - 2000

MA Degree in Fine Art: Studio Practice - 2001

Holmfirth Art Fair, Holmfirth, 2016.

Todmorden Art Fair, Todmorden Townhall, 2015

Engels… Engels… Engels, Museum of Transportation, Bury, 2011 (assistant artist to Rainer Ganahl)

Solo Collection, Gallery Oldham, Oldham, 2007

Distractions, The Castle, Nottingham, 2005

Featured Artist, Calder Gallery, Hebden Bridge, 2005

Sefton Open, Sefton Art Gallery, Southport, 2004

Open Call, Westbourne Arthouse, Westbourne, 2004

From Farm to Pharm, Gallery Oldham, Oldham 2002 (assistant to Brandon Ballengee)

Persistent Vision, Peter Scott Gallery, Lancaster, 2001