Finbar Flanagan

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  • I cant go on like this

    I have battled with anxiety for a large part of my life and one of the more severe symptoms known as derealisation / depersonalisation can be quite scary and make you feel hopeless or just plain crazy. It is a product of heightened anxiety over a very long period of time and this debilitating curse…

  • Drifting

    Drifting is an intimate yet universally resonant exploration of the aftermath of separational trauma. This installation art piece blends photography and the spoken word to articulate the complex journey of a man finding his way through lone parenthood. Navigating this new life without a partner, he assumes the roles of both mother and father for…

  • Tumble Dryer

    Venturing into single fatherhood, Finbar Flanagan begins to understand the complexities of becoming the mother for his three children in their rural Irish home while still maintaining the father role. Bonds with many around him have been broken, but his connections with the children have grown to a point of indestructible faith and loyalty in…

  • Leviathan

    As the title suggests, this project is about a monster of the sea, however I look more at the monstrous power of the sea rather than a mythological creature wrecking havoc. The shoreline of my home village of Blackwater has been eaten away continuously in my thirty three years living in the area and it…

  • I don’t get to see cats

    I don’t get to see cats is an exploration of the voice of the child throughout the Covid 19 pandemic, visualising their emotional response to the restrictions and changes in their environment. The title of the book was one of the children’s responses to what they had realised in the the current 2020 lockdown. I…