Painter, born in Scotland, who gained an honours degree at Edinburgh College of Art, 1985, then her master’s degree from Yale University School of Art in America, 1987. She had obtained a Yale University Scholarship in 1985, other awards including Scottish Arts Council Artists Award in 1994, and Scholar, British School at Rome, 1997. In 1999, Flannigan was a finalist for The NatWest Prize, showing figurative pictures that were “less about the individual but rather are representative of social and psychological ideas…a gallery of human types”. Flannigan was artist-in-residence at Aberdeen Art Gallery, 1990. Showed widely in Scotland and had a solo exhibition at 369 Gallery Edinburgh, 1990, later ones including William Jackson Gallery, 1994, Lotta Hammer, 1998.