Bryan Kneale

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Robert Bryan Charles Kneale MBE (born June 19, 1930 in Douglas (Isle of Man) ) is a British sculptor.

Life and works

Bryan Kneale is a brother of Nigel Kneale and thus the brother-in-law of Judith Kerr and the uncle of Tacy and Matthew Kneale . He studied painting at the Douglas School of Art from 1947 and moved to the Royal Academy Schools in London in 1948 , where he continued his education until 1952. During this time he received a Rome - scholarship . In 1960 he changed his subject and switched to sculpture. From 1968 he taught at Hornsey College of Art and Design, later at the Royal College of Art in London. Among other things, he was professor of drawing there from 1990 to 1995. He lives and works in London. He portrayed Charles Laughton , Sir Michael Redgrave and Sir Herbert Read , among others .

His sculptural works made of metal were compared by the critic Hilary Spurling with drawings in space, and he himself once referred to them as three-dimensional drawings.

From around the mid-1980s onwards, he identified nature as the source of his inspiration, in particular the skeletons of animals which he studied at the Natural History Museum in London and whose numerous shapes and modifications fascinated him: “The endless invention in nature of bony structures from minute tiny insects and animals to colossal forms of dinosaur bones… has always fascinated me. ”In the 1990s, abstract structures were added to these natural structures. At that time he worked with, among other things, cut, flexible elements made of steel and aluminum, which were put together and reworked, for example, by painting or patination.

Exhibitions

In 1954 he presented his first solo exhibition at the Redfern Gallery in London, at that time still with paintings. Until 1986 he exhibited regularly in this gallery. In 1966 a retrospective of his works was shown in the Whitechapel Art Gallery, further retrospectives followed in 1978 in the Serpentine Gallery in London and in 1986 in the Henry Moore Gallery of the Royal College of Art in London and in 1995 in the Royal West of England Academy. A retrospective of his drawings was shown at the Natural History Museum in 1991. More recently, Kneale's works have been shown in solo exhibitions at the Hart Gallery in London (2012) and the Royal Academy of Arts (2011).

Kneale has participated in numerous group exhibitions, including the Hayward Gallery and the Tate Gallery. Many of his works are in public ownership. Among other things, Kneale's works are in the British Museum , the Museum of Modern Art in New York , the National Galleries of Victoria in Australia and the Manx Museum. Several public buildings are adorned with works by Kneales: Westminster Cathedral has two sculptures Kneales, Portsmouth Cathedral has doors designed by Kneales, the Government House of the Isle of Man has a sculpture. Schools, a library and other buildings are also adorned with Kneale sculptures.

Awards

In 1952 Kneale won the Leverhulme Prize and in 1955 the Daily Express Young Painters' Prize. In 1969 he received an Arts Council Purchase Award. In 1974 he was elected a member of the Royal Academy. He is a Trustee of the Royal Academy of Arts and a Senior Fellow of the Royal College of Art.

Web links

Commons : Bryan Kneale  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Portrait of Charles Laughton  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.bbc.co.uk  
  2. ↑ Portrait of Sir Michael Redgrave ( Memento of the original from December 29, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bbc.co.uk
  3. ↑ Portrait of Sir Herbert Read  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.bbc.co.uk  
  4. ↑ a b c Judith Collins via Bryan Kneale at www.tate.org.uk
  5. ↑ Life and Works on www.royalacademy.org.uk
personal data
SURNAME Kneale, Bryan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kneale, Robert Bryan Charles (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Douglas (Isle of Man)