about

Lorna Flanagan was born in Northern Ireland. She graduated with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from the University of Ulster, Belfast in 1995. Previous qualifications include a BA in Mathematics from Trinity College Dublin. Her Fine Art degree work involved research into the use of the internet in Fine Art practice and to continue her exploration of multimedia tools she gained a MSc in Computer Science & Applications from Queens University Belfast. She has used her web skills both professionally and in her art work. 

1996-98 she participated in Dr Dew Harrison's "Deconstructing Duchamp" project, which interconnected 26 websites created by individual internationally-sited artists and was based on Duchamp's "The bride stripped bare by her bachelors, even". 

She is a member of Visual Artists Ireland, having won several commissions during her Fine Art degree course. These included a major sculpture for the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, "Microscope"; a 3-dimensional billboard "Peace and Reconciliation" unveiled by Michael Ancram, the then Secretary Of State for NI; and stage sculptures for the University of Ulster "Fashion & Design Matters" fashion show.

Since leaving college her art practice has been mainly sculpture. Private commissions have included a large bronze piece for an outdoor collection in England. Other sculpture pieces have been text related, some in the form of 'Artists' Books' which have included materials such as glass, porcelain, tin, pewter, bronze.

Recent canvases also have a sculptural quality influenced by the reliefs on ancient temples and public sculptures.