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Philip Bourke
About
Born in Limerick City, Ireland in 1973. Residing in Cork City since 2001. Currently working as an independent photographer exclusively working within a documentary style. Music: Currently listening to Miles Davis mid seventies period music, just before his self imposed musical exile in 1975. The loud and brash esoteric sounds of the live albums Pangeae, Dark Magus and Agharta contain intense depth and insane colours and must be heard. ECM European jazz artsits including Eberhard Weber, John Abercrombie, Enrico Rava and Ralph Towner to name but a few, fantastich rich music.
Through an influence of street photographers such as Robert Frank, Walker Evans, André Kertész, Lee Friedlander, Garry Winogrand, Danny Lyon and through the general medium of the energetic, transient and fast moving pace of street imagery, previous and current personal photographic work explores the often both exciting and mundane traits of the street portrait. The unknown subject as he/she/they move, interact, live and journey through their enviornment and their land. … Read More
- Location
- Cork, West Cork, Ireland
- Website
- http://www.philipbourke.com
Education: Studied Media Communications, LIT Limerick 1999-2001.
Studied documentary/studio photography at St. Johns Community College, Cork 2001-2003.
Exhibitions: Close Your Eyes and See! June 2003. St. Johns Graduation show, Vision Centre, North Main St. Cork. (Images from the project These Streets)7
Art trail: December 2003, selection of images from the 10 Mardyke Studio (Rahilly Building UCC, Cork)
Land: August 2005 Tigh Fili Gallery, McCurtain St. Cork. Four man group show. Fout artists comprising of two painters and two photographers with very different views and disciplines each bringing their own subjective vision on land and landscape together merging the form of landscape with urban, social landscape, chaotic visions of the landscape to a cathartis of living on the land.
New Works Exhibition: July 2006. Frame Gallery, Denmark St., Limerick City. Exhibition of paintings and photographs. Featuring both established and up and coming artists. (Images from project Portuguese Portraits)
Second Cities: November 2007. Kosice, Slovakia. Group show taking in photographers from a host of European cities, the work and images convey each artists subjective vision of living their home countrys second largest city. Sept 2009: Cork Arts Collective, Light Box Show "Open Shutter Group": November 2009 Arttrail "Rediscovering Locality". July 2010 Kinsale Arts Week (KAW) Rural Landscape in community space, "LAND NOW! CIRCA 33!" ., … Read More
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Portfolio
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Events & Exhibitions
Events
Future Shows: Work in Progress: Currently, and for the last few years, I have been working on a project with the provisional title of Common Faces/Common Places. The work captures the subjects, portraits of people, in their cities and towns, streets as they interact with their surroundings / their environment and go about their daily lives. Where the images have been taken and who the subject may be is irrelevant to small the snippet of their lives I gather and grab, and they could be anywhere in our muticulural society where it is a franchise strewen street or a tired and forgotten back lane. Captured candidly the portraits often reveal a comforting melancholy especially when blending in with their often mundane surroundings. … Read More
Exhibitions
Close Your Eyes and See! June 2003. St. Johns Graduation show, Vision Centre, North Main St. Cork. (Images from the project “These Streets…”)
Art trail: December 2003, selection of images from the 10 Mardyke Studio (Rahilly Building UCC, Cork)
Land: August 2005, Tigh Fili Gallery, McCurtain St. Cork. Four man group show. Featuring two artists and two photographers each bringing their subjective vision on the landscape together merging the form of landscape with urban social landscape to a cathartic image of the land and what it represents.
New Works: July 2006. Frame Gallery, Denmark St., Limerick City. Exhibition of paintings and photographs. Featuring both established and up and coming artists. (Images from project Portugal Portraits)
Second Cities: November 2007. Kosice, Slovakia. Group show taking in photographers from European second cities, the work and images convey each artist’s subjective vision of living their home country’s second largest city.
Cork Arts Collective: June 2009. Photographic Light Box Show
Cork Arts Trail: November 2009, Open Shutter Group project “Rediscovering Locality”, street projected images and “Camera Obscura” set up on the Port of Cork
Kinsale Arts Week: July 2010, "33 Market Square"
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