2004
Brian Bourke
Born in Dublin, Bourke studied at the National College of Art & Design in Dublin and St. Martin’s School of Art in London.
He represented Ireland at the Paris Biennale and the Lugano Exhibition of Graphics, both in 1965.
He won the Arts Council portrait competition in 1965,the Munster and Leinster Bank competition in 1966,and first prize in the Irish Exhibition of Living Art competition in 1967. In 1985, he was named Sunday Independent Artist of the Year, and he received the O’Malley Award from the Irish-American Cultural Institute in 1993.
Bourke is known for his series of mocking self-portraits comparing the artist to Don Quixote.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.
