Jackie Flanagan Visual Artist
Awards;
2022: Artists' Support Scheme Award 2022. Fingal Arts, Dublin.
2021:'Death and Transfiguration' awarded a Certificate of Merit for artistic
talent from Pinacotheque Museum, Luxembourg.
2021: Artists' Support Scheme Award 2021. Fingal Arts, Dublin.
2008: Travel and Training Award. Arts Council of Ireland.
1993: A1 (Hons) in Art. Leaving Certificate. (Acknowledged by the Art
History Department, University College Dublin).
Residencies;
2008: Artist-in-Residence. Upernavik Museum, Upernavik, Greenland.
2006: Artist-in-Residence. Fiskars Co-operative of Artisans, Designers and
Artists, Fiskars, Finland.
Collections;
Upernavik Airport, Greenland.
Supermetrics, WeWork Charlemont Exchange, Dublin 2.
Upernavik Museum, Upernavik, Greenland.
Ilulissat Art Museum, Ilulissat, Greenland.
Citywest Business Campus, Dublin.
Selected Exhibitions;
2026: Holding Conversations. Custom Lane Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland.
2022: Shetland series Transformation. Artexpo New York.
2019: Malahide Library's 25th Anniversary. Dublin.
2007: Points of View. Copper Smithy, Fiskars, Finland.
2005: Off the Wall. Luttrellstown Castle Golf Club, Dublin.
1996: Student Group Exhibition. University College Dublin.
Guest Artist;
2020: Invited Artist, Kari Kola's Savage Beauty. Finnish Ambassador's
Residence, Shrewsbury Road, Dublin.
2008: Ilulissat Art Museum, Ilulissat, Greenland.
2008: Prinsesse Margrethe School, Upernavik, Greenland.
2006: Invited Artist, Homeward Bound Exhibition. Copper Smithy, Fiskars,
Finland.
2006: Fiskars Elementary School, Koulutie, Finland.
Press / Publications;
2024: Flanagan, J (2021).“I & it,” “I & thou” and Zuihitsu : A Dialectical
Performance from the Artist's Mind. Cambridge Open Engage.
https://doi.org/10.33774/coe-2024-16n5z
(doi: 10.33774/coe-2024-16n5z)
2023: Shetland: An Archaeology of the Unknown. Visual Artists Ireland.
The Visual Artists' News Sheet – March April 2023 - Issuu - p34
2022: Shetland - a featured article in the Irish-American newspaper;
The Irish Echo 2022
2006: Finnish Artist-in-Residence Interview;
Vastra Nyland Newspaper - Culture 2006
Education;
2003: B.A (Hons) Art & Design Education (specialising in painting).
National College of Art and Design, Dublin.
1999: Certificate in Classical Animation Drawing Studies.
Ballyfermot College of Further Education, Dublin.
1996: B.A (Hons) Archaeology and Geography.
(including year one Art History).
University College Dublin.
About
Born in 1975, Jackie Flanagan is an Irish Visual Artist and Archaeologist from County Kerry and is based in Dublin. She is a professional member of Visual Artists Ireland (VAI) and a member of the Institute of Archaeologists of Ireland (IAI). Her art practice is interdisciplinary, evoking a deep sense of archaeology.
Latest News
Exhibiting work from Ghost-Geographies at the Custom Lane in Leith, Edinburgh, from February 10th to 21st, 2026. This exhibition is entitled "Holding Conversations". St. Magnus Cathedral in Orkney acts as a subconscious space where imaginative objects, walking-lines, sensory mark-making, and ghostly traces are suspended within.
Pleased to share that my essay, “I & it,” “I & thou” and Zuihitsu: A Dialectical Performance from the Artist's Mind, is now openly accessible on the Cambridge Open Engage research platform by Cambridge University Press. Written during the pandemic (2021), the paper sheds light on the effects of coastal climate change. It favours a turning towards the sublime instead of the picturesque and advocates for the agency in rubble. Wildness and ruin hold an aesthetic gravity of their own and memory lingers, evoked by scattered rubble. This is all executed through a video montage which is informed by the writings of philosopher Martin Buber and in essence, the ghost of Robert Smithson.
“I & it,” “I & thou” and Zuihitsu : A Dialectical Performance from the Artist's Mind. Cambridge Open Engage.
https://doi.org/10.33774/coe-2024-16n5z
Thank you to artist-researchers Anne Bevan and Rosie Blake of the University of the Highlands and Islands for providing guidance throughout this project.
