Biography

Flanagann’s life long obsession with Alfred Jarry, the French playwright, and Jarry’s philosophy of ‘pataphysics.

This outdoor exhibition involved the installation of some of Flanagan’s later work – bronze hares – along Park Avenue. Flanagan is best known for these large bronzes which feature in public places across the world and which dominated the later part of his career. He exhibited a number of times in the US, including at the Museum of Modern Art and the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York. 

Barry Flanagan represented Britain at the Venice Biennale in 1982. This retrospective, like the recent Tate show ‘Barry Flanagan: Early works 1965 – 1982’ (September 2011 – January 2012), included work crafted in stone, canvas, sheet metal and bronze spanning his career from the early 1960s to 1982.