Barry Flanagan, R.A. (1941-2009)

We are very grateful to Jo Melvin from the Barry Flanagan estate for her assistance in preparing this catalogue entry.


'Thematically the choice of the hare is really quite a rich and expressive sort of model... and on a practical level, if you consider what conveys situation and meaning and feeling in a human figure, the range of expression is in fact far more limited than the device of investing an animal- a hare especially - with the attributes of a human being'

(Barry Flanagan quoted in exhibition catalogue, Barry Flanagan. Sculpture and Drawing, Recklinghausen, 2002, p. 31)