Dan Flaherty graduated from Limerick School of Art & Design with a First Class Honours Degree in Fine Art (Painting). Flaherty's practice has developed from an exclusively painting based practice to one which is diverse in approach incorporating painting, photography, video, writing and sculpture. Much of his work evolves from an interest in writing, linguistics and history. His art is one of spontaneous growth, open to influence in terms of process, context and social/cultural mores. This process relies on Post-Structuralist and Enlightenment defined freedoms and maintains that the idea, the context, is the primary factor in the making of art; its aesthetic structure is mutable and symbiotic to space. His practice alludes to that which is hidden. Utilising language theory, literature and history to explore meaning and myth, the work expresses the desire/ritual of detection, where memory is an unchallenged suspect. The scrutiny of this prima facie memory enables for the creation of immersive installations and 'one-off objects'  which gambol between the personal and the wider social sphere.