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Painting (MA)

Alexis Pearse Flynn

Alexis Pearse Flynn is a London-based artist. He trained in printmaking and sculpture, graduating with his BA in 2002. For more than a decade thereafter he worked as a foreign correspondent, an experience which only served to affirm his faith in the durability of painting as a record.

Degree Details

School of Arts & Humanities

Painting (MA)
Alexis Pearse Flynn

At its heart, my artistic practice is an attempt to pursue painting as a line of enquiry, both as an investigatory tool, and an assay from which phenomenological clues can be gleaned. It begins with the conviction that painting remains among the most durable means we have of grasping the ineffable truths that Wittgenstein suggested lie beyond the rim of language. 

This has led me to try and gauge the potential inherent in the medium to serve as an isochronal imprint of memory, fugitive notions of identity, myth, and temporal shift.

Dispatches
Dispatches
The Journalist and the Murderer by Janet Malcolm
The Journalist and the Murderer by Janet Malcolm — First published in The New Yorker, March 1989
Night Moves
Night Moves
Underworld
Underworld
Terrain
Terrain
GETHSEMANE, 2020
GETHSEMANE, 2020 — Oil on canvas 142 x 242 CM
DEBRIS, 2020
DEBRIS, 2020 — Oil on canvas 25 x 36 CM
WE ROMANS, 2021
WE ROMANS, 2021 — Oil on board 23 x 30 CM
PET, 2021
PET, 2021 — Oil on board 30 x 20 cm
Night Ride, 2021
Night Ride, 2021 — Oil on board 30 x 23 CM
Nightwatch
Nightwatch — Oil on board 30 x 23 CM
SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE PALACE, 2021
SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE PALACE, 2021 — Oil on board 23 x 30 CM
MY HOUSE IS A DECAYED HOUSE, 2021
MY HOUSE IS A DECAYED HOUSE, 2021 — Oil and acrylic on board 40 x 60 cm
MARKED MAN, 2021
MARKED MAN, 2021 — Oil on board 30 x 23 CM
OWNER, 2021
OWNER, 2021 — Oil on board 30 x 23 CM
LANGUORS
LANGUORS — Oil on board 30 x 23 CM