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Major
Prizes
| 1936 |
Born
Dublin |
| 1964 |
Irish
Exhibition of Living Art, second prize |
| 1965 |
Irish
Exhibition of Living Art, second prize |
| 1965 |
Arts
Council Portrait Competition, prize |
| 1966 |
MacAuley
Fellowship, second prize |
| 1966 |
Munster
and Leinster Bank Competition, first prize |
| 1967 |
Irish
Exhibition of Living Art, first prize |
| 1985 |
Sunday
Independent Artist of the Year |
| 1993 |
O'Malley
Art Award, The Irish American Cultural Institute |
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One
Man Exhibitions
| 1965 |
Dawson
Gallery, Dublin |
| 1966 |
Dawson
Gallery, Dublin |
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Drawings,
Belfast |
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New
Gallery, Belfast |
| 1968 |
Dawson
Gallery, Dublin |
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Arts
Council Gallery, Belfast |
| 1971 |
Painting
and Sculpture,Dawson Gallery, Dublin |
| 1973 |
Galerie
Cobra, Bremgarten, Switzerland |
| 1975 |
Frau
Stutz's Cherry Tree,Dawson Gallery, Dublin |
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Gorey
Arts Centre, Wexford |
| 1978 |
Knock-a-Lough
8 Seasons,Taylor Galleries, Dublin |
| 1979 |
Theatre
Drawings, Stone Art Gallery, Spiddal, Co. Galway |
| 1981 |
Self
with Don Quixote,paintings, etchings and sculpture, Taylor
Galleries, Dublin |
| 1983 |
Portrait
of J with Basque Hat, paintings, drawings, etchings and
sculpture, |
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Taylor
Galleries, Dublin |
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Meiers
Gallery, Zurich |
| 1984 |
Paintings,
drawings and prints, Carroll Gallery, Longford |
| 1985-86 |
Out
of the Head,Arts Council Travelling Exhibition |
| 1985 |
Of
the Head, from the Head, Sculpture and Related Works, Taylor
Galleries, Dublin |
| 1986 |
St.
Louis, Missouri, U.S.A. |
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Sweeney
Astray,Cibeal Cincise, Kenmare, Co. Kerry |
| 1987 |
Brian
Bourke: Twenty-five years,Galway Arts Festival, Galway |
| 1988 |
Wexford
Opera Festival, Wexford |
| 1991 |
Landscape,
Cardet, France,Taylor Galleries, Dublin |
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Artist
in Residence, Beckett Festival, Gate Theatre and Douglas Hyde
Gallery, Dublin |
| 1992 |
Polyptych,Galway
Arts Centre, Galway |
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Nature
Morte,Nature Vivante, Taylor Galleries, Dublin |
| 1993 |
Nature
Morte, Nature Vivante, Taylor Galleries, Dublin |
| 1993 |
La
Bella Barmaid,West Cork Arts Centre, Skibbereen |
| 1994 |
Portfolio
100 Works,Taylor Galleries, Dublin |
| 1995 |
Sweeney
Amhann Macha, Armagh |
| 1996 |
Andalucian
Fireworks,Taylor Galleries, Dublin |
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Droichead
Arts Centre, Drogheda |
| 1997 |
Dip-Trip-Quadrip-Pentap-Polyp-Tych,
RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin in conjunction with Taylor
Galleries, Dublin |
| 1999 |
Dip-Trip-Quadrip-Pentap-Polyp-Tych,
Galway Arts Centre, Domonic Street, Galway. |
| 2000 |
Portraits
N.U.I. Galway |
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Two
and Three Man Exhibitions
| 1998 |
On
the Shannon - Two Artists, with Jay Murphy, Carroll Gallery,
Longford |
| 1988 |
Portrait
of Tony O'Malley,with Tony O'Malley, Taylor Galleries, Dublin |
| 1989 |
At
Sweeney - Two Artists,with Michael Farrell, Taylor Galleries,
Dublin |
| 1990 |
A
Sense of Ireland,with Séan McSweeney and Tony O'Malley,
Odette Gilbert Gallery, London |
| 1994 |
Paintings
and Sculpture,with William Crozier, travelling exhibition
Cork Arts Society, Cork, Carroll Gallery, Longford and Model
Arts Centre, Sligo |
| 1995 |
Paintingswith
Bernadette Kiely, Galway Arts Centre, Galway Síathor, with Jay
Murphy and Séan McSweeney, An Damhlann, Spiddal, Co. Galway |
| 1995 |
Behan
and Bourke, Backstage at the Druid,with John Behan, Kenny
Gallery, Galway |
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Three
Artists on the Horse,Veronica Bolay and Basil Blackshaw,
Claremorris Art Gallery, Co. Mayo |
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Major
Group Exhibitions
| 1965 |
Paris
Biennale |
| 1965 |
Lugano
Exhibition of Graphics |
| 1971 |
The
Irish Imagination,Hugh Lane, Municipal Gallery of Modern
Art, Dublin |
| 1980 |
Meiers
Gallery, Zurich |
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The
Delighted Eye,London |
| 1981 |
Hibernian
Inscape,Douglas Hyde Gallery Dublin |
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2nd
Biennale of European Graphic Art, Baden-Baden |
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Irish
Graphics, Birmingham, Alabama, U.S.A. |
| 1983 |
Making
Sense - Ten Artists,Project Arts Centre, Dublin |
| 1984 |
A
Century of Connemara,Galway Arts Festival |
| 1986 |
Irish
Artists, Beverley Hills, California, U.S.A. |
| 1987 |
Images
of Sweeney,Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Dublin |
| 1988 |
ROSC,Dublin |
| 1991 |
Parable
Island,Some Aspects of Recent Irish Art, Bluecoat Gallery,
Liverpool |
| 1992 |
Personal
Theme,joint production by Island Connection & Galway Arts
Centre |
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Island
Connection,Tenerife |
| 1993 |
Mayo
Landscape,with John Behan, Barrie Cooke, Louis le Brocquy,
Séan McSweeney and Camille Souter, Claremorris Art Gallery,
Co. Mayo |
| 1993 |
Six
Artists at The Model Schoolwith Fergus Bourke, John Coen,
Patrick Collins, John Kelly and Nancy Wynne-Jones, Model Arts
Centre, Sligo, Island Connection, Bolfin Island, Co. Galway |
| 1995 |
Famine,George
Moore Society Travelling Exhibition |
| 1998 |
Talking
About Artists' Sketchbooks,Lavit Gallery Cork and Cork County
Libraries Service - travelling exhibition |
| 1998 |
Joycesight,George
Moore Society Travelling Exhibition, Trieste, Rome Perugia |
| 1998-99 |
When
Time Began to Rant and Rage: Twentieth Century Figurative Painting
from Ireland,Curated by Berkeley Art Gallery, University
of California, Berkeley and travelling to Walker Art Gallery,
Liverpool: Berkeley Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley:
Grey Art Gallery, New York: Barbican Art Gallery, London |
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Bibliography
- James
White, The Art of Brian Bourke, 1982
- Henry
J. Sharpe, Making Sense - Ten Irish Artists 1963-83, 1983
- Sarah
Walker, Heaney, Sweeney and Brian Bourke's Drawings, Irish
Arts Review, 1987
- Séamus
Heaney and Kierán Corcoran, Brian Bourke: Paintings and Sculpture,
Galway, 1998
-
John Hutchinson, interview, Resisting the Written Word,
In Dublin 1989
- Julian
Campbell, The Paintings of Brian Bourke, GPA Irish Arts
Review Yearbook, 1989-1990
- Andalucian
Fireworks, Taylor Galleries, Dublin, 1997
-
Vera Ryan, Talking about Artists' Sketchbooks, Lavit Gallery
Cork in association with Cork County Libraries Service, 1998
- When
Time Began to Rant and Rage: Twentieth Century Figurative Painting
from Ireland, Exhibition Catalogue, published by Berkeley
Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, 1998
- Dip-Trip-Quadrip-Pentap-Polyp-Tych,
RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin in conjunction with Taylor Galleries,
Dublin, 1998
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