{{Short description|Irish artist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Infobox artist | name = Brian Bourke | birth_date = 1936 | birth_place = Dublin, Ireland | known_for = Landscape artist, self-portrait artist }}
'''Brian Bourke''' (born 1936 in Dublin) is an Irish artist.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Brian Bourke |url=https://imma.ie/artists/brian-bourke/ |access-date=2022-12-14 |website=IMMA |language=en-IE}}</ref>
== Life == Bourke was born in Dublin in 1936. His parents were Thomas Bourke (Tómas de Búrca) and Eileen (Eibhlín) Bourke (née Somers).<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Lunney |first=Linde |date=2010 |title=Bourke, Fergus (Ignatius) {{!}} Dictionary of Irish Biography |url=https://www.dib.ie/biography/bourke-fergus-ignatius-a9339 |access-date=2022-12-14 |website=www.dib.ie |language=en}}</ref> Bourke left school early and got a job in the art department of the Player Wills tobacco company on the condition he enrolled at the National College of Art and Design (NCAD).<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |title=Review: Brian Bourke, Five Decades: 1960s-2000s by Brian Bourke |url=https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/books/review-brian-bourke-five-decades-1960s-2000s-by-brian-bourke-26804060.html |access-date=2022-12-14 |website=independent |date=24 October 2010 |language=en}}</ref> He later studied at Saint Martin's School of Art in London.<ref name=":0" /> After London, he spent time in Germany and was strongly influence by the Neue Sachlichkeit art movement. He returned to Dublin in 1957 and held his first one-man show in Dublin in 1964 at the Dawson Gallery.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |title=Brian Bourke |url=https://www.tcd.ie/artcollections/assets/pdf/biographies/BOURKE-Brian.pdf |access-date=14 December 2022 |website=TCD Art Collections}}</ref> He travelled across Europe in the 1960s and 1970s.<ref name=":2" />
In 1965 Bourke won an Arts Council prize for portraiture and represented Ireland at the Biennale de Paris. He won the Munster and Leinster Bank competition in 1966,{{Citation needed|date=December 2022}} and first prize in the Irish Exhibition of Living Art competition in 1967.<ref name=":0" /> He was included in the Delighted Eye, the Hibernian landscape<ref name=":4">{{Cite web |date=2005-09-23 |title=The Collection - Dublin City University |url=http://www.dcu.ie/arts/37.htm |access-date=2022-12-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050923232505/http://www.dcu.ie/arts/37.htm |archive-date=23 September 2005 }}</ref> and the Cork Rosc exhibitions in 1980.<ref name=":3" />
In 1985, he was named Sunday Independent Artist of the Year,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Kildare County Council Arts Service - Brian Bourke |url=https://kildarecoco.ie/ArtsService/MunicipalCollection/MunicipalCollectionintro/BrianBourke/ |access-date=2022-12-14 |website=kildarecoco.ie}}</ref> and he received the O'Malley Award from the Irish-American Cultural Institute in 1993.<ref name=":0" /> A retrospective of his work was exhibited as part of the Galway Arts Festival in 1988.<ref name=":4" />
In 1991, he was artist-in-residence at the Gate Theatre's Beckett Festival in Dublin, with accompanying works appearing at the Douglas Hyde Gallery.<ref name=":3" />
In 2001, a large exhibition of his portraits of women, centred on portraits of his son's adopted daughter, appeared at the Dyehouse Gallery in Waterford.{{Citation needed|date=December 2022}} He lives in Connemara, County Galway. Bourke held another retrospective exhibition in the Claremorris Gallery in 2022.<ref>{{Cite web |date=18 March 2022 |title=Never seen before works by artist Brian Bourke for Mayo exhibition |url=https://www.con-telegraph.ie/2022/03/18/never-seen-before-works-by-artist-brian-bourke-for-mayo-exhibition/ |access-date=2022-12-14 |website=Connaught Telegraph |language=en-US}}</ref> He is a member of the Aosdána and an honorary member of the Royal Hibernian Academy.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Brian Burke: Artist Talk |url=https://dublin.ie/whats-on/listings/brian-burke-artist-talk/ |access-date=2022-12-14 |website=Dublin.ie}}</ref>
Bourke's brother was the photographer Fergus Bourke.<ref name=":1" /> Bourke has married twice, first to Ann, a lecturer at NCAD, and secondly to Jay Murphy, also an artist.<ref name=":2" />
== References == {{Reflist}}
==External links== *[https://graphicstudiodublin.com/artist/bourke-brian/ Selection of Bourke's work at the Graphic Studio Dublin]
{{Authority control (arts)}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bourke, Brian}} Category:1936 births Category:20th-century Irish painters Category:21st-century Irish painters Category:21st-century Irish male artists Category:Irish male painters Category:Living people Category:Artists from Dublin (city) Category:Aosdána members Category:Alumni of Saint Martin's School of Art Category:20th-century Irish male artists