BIOGRAPHY
1978 Project Arts Centre - Dublin
1979 Art Director, Kieron Hickey's film "Exposure"
1980 Specialist prop designer John Boorman's "Excalibur"
1981 Specialist prop designer for Marcel Marceau,
Sadlers Wells Theatre - London
1981 Project Arts Centre - Dublin
1982 "Sculpture for the Blind"
Irish Arts Council Touring Exhibition
1982 "Drawing Towards" Arts Council Touring
Exhibition of Sculptors' Drawings
1983 Wexford Arts Centre - Wexford
1985 Claremorris National Art Exhibition
1988 Taylor Galleries, Dawson Street - Dublin
1989 Bord Iascaigh Mhara (Irish Fisheries Board)
Headquarters, Dun Laoghaire - Co Dublin
1989 "Glass Pier Exhibition"
Dun Laoghaire Arts Week, Co Dublin
1989 Specialist prop designer for "Purple Dust" by
Sean O'Casey,Abbey Theatre - Dublin
1990 Bronze Portrait Bust of Maurice Craig (Historian)
1990 Bronze Portrait Bust of Patrick Collins (RHA) Painter
1990 Emer Gallery - Belfast
1990 Narrowwater Gallery,Warrenpoint - Co Down
1991 Portrait of Michael Hartnett, Poet
1991 Portrait of Liam O'Leary, Film Archivist
1991 Drogheda Arts Centre - Co Louth
1991 Royal Hibernian Academy
Banquet Exhibition - Dublin
1991 Group Exhibition, University of Turin - Italy
1992 Portrait of Christy Moore, Singer
1992 Trinity Gallery, Albemarle Street - London
1992 Aer Rianta Exhibition, Dublin Airport - Dublin
1993 Portrait of Captain Pat Holmes, Soldier
1993 Portrait of Sylvester Stallone, Actor
1993 Bath Contemporary Art Fair - England
1993 Dublin Contemporary Art Fair
Museum of Modern Art - Dublin
1993 Miami International Art Fair, Florida - USA
1993 Trident Hotel, Kinsale - Co Cork
1993 Ardilaun House Hotel - Co Galway
1994 Conrad Hilton Hotel, Brussels - Belgium
1994 Harvey Nichols, Knightsbridge - London
1994 London Contemporary Art Fair - London
1994 Bath Contemporary Art Fair - England
1994 British Watercolour and Drawing Fair - UK
1995 Portrait of Charlize Theron, Actress
1995 British Watercolour and Drawing Fair – UK
1995 Harvey Nichols, Knightsbridge - London
1995 Garrett Gallery, Belfast - N Ireland
1996 British Watercolour and Drawing Fair - UK
1996 Irving Galleries, Palm Beach, Florida - USA
1996 Rodeo Gallery, Hollywood Ca - USA
1996 Harvey Nichols, Knightsbridge - London
1996 Harvey Nichols, Leeds - Yorkshire
1996 Wexford Opera Festival - Wexford
1996 Mount Stewart House, Co Down - N Ireland
1996 Two Portraits for Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer
1996 Bronze Portrait of John B. Keane, Playwright
1997 Portrait of Don King, Boxing Promoter
1997 British Watercolour and Drawing Fair - UK
1997 Irving Galleries, Palm Beach, Florida - USA
1997 Stock Exchange - Hong Kong
1997 Harvey Nichols, Knightsbridge - London
1998 New York Contemporary Art Fair, New York - USA
1998 Dalriada Gallery, Ballymena - N Ireland
1998 Harvey Nichols, Knightsbridge - London
1998 Portrait of Robert De Niro, Actor
1998 Coole Castle, Co Fermanagh - N Ireland
1998 Marbella Club, Marbella - Spain
1999 Casino De Marbella, Marbella - Spain
1999 Harvey Nichols, Knightsbridge - London
1999 European Parliament Hq Brussels - Belgium
2000 Cork Street Gallery - London
2001 Eleven Taoisigh of Ireland
2001 Portrait of the Band "Relish" For E.M.I.
2001 K Club - Co Kildare
2001 Gallerie Pinton Paris - France
2002 Frederick Street Gallery - Dublin
2002 Tapestry, St.Therese of Lisieux
2002 Mastercard design, MBNA Bank
2002 Art House,Temple Bar - Dublin
2003 Herzfeld Gallery - LA
2003 Portrait of Denis Desmond, Promoter
2003 Portrait of Rod Stewart, Singer
2003 Wexford Opera Festival - Wexford
2003 "Animals In Tapestry" Exhibition -
French Museum of Tapestry
2004 Hotel Kempinski, Estepona - Spain
2004 Galway Arts Festival - Galway Group Exhibitions
2004 Barbara Stanley Gallery - London Commissions
2004 "The Joshua Tree", Painting of U2 for Joe Herlihy
2008 September, Dubai
2008 Whalley Gallery , Belfast & Holywood
Graham Knuttel was born in Dublin in 1954. Initially renowned for his large wooden mechanical animated sculptures, Knuttel's figurative paintings are now acclaimed internationally. He paints into an urban landscape to which he himself belongs, favouring dark and dangerous scenes, which reflect the fears, doubts and hopes he feels himself. It is on canvas that Knuttel fights his battles, the tensions and moods brilliantly portrayed on the faces of his subjects, his wicked sense of humour evident throughout. Knuttel returns constantly to still life in his work, inspired by its potential for simplicity and bringing him back to his early studies of Cezanne and Picasso.
Graham Knuttel's work is held in public and private collections worldwide. Collectors include Robert De Niro, Sylvester Stallone, Bertie Ahern and Joanna Lumley as well as Swiss Bank Corporation, Allied Irish Banks, Goldman Sachs International and Saatchi & Saatchi London.
"When I was eighteen, I started at art school. I had always had an interest in figurative work, in the portrayal of the human condition, and from an early age I was familiar with the work of Van Gogh, Cezanne and Picasso. In art school I was attracted to the life drawing room where I determined to develop my skills as a figurative painter. I found myself to be an intuitive painter. I had little patience for the intellectual processes and conclusions involved with abstract and conceptual art. For me, to paint what I saw or felt or imagined around me should be a simple affair, painted from the gut." Graham Knuttel
"My parents came to Ireland in 1947 from Bedford in England where my father had served with the R.A.F. My grandfather was a stone quarry owner in Dresden, Germany but my father and grandmother came to England after the 1st World War. My father is a strange eccentric man, but he has nothing on his mother. I met her only once when I was four of five but the memory will never leave me. She was very tall and thin with a hook like nose not dissimilar to my own. Her cheeks were hollow, whitened with powder and highlighted with rouge. She was dressed all in black, except for a white lace frill at her neck. The sight of her beside my father's huge dark wardrobe sent me into a state of total hysteria. There being no one else in the room, she tried to lock me in the wardrobe. I can still hear her cackling and feel her long white claws at the back of my neck. I often look at my drawings of birds with which I have had a long obsession, and I wonder. I'm glad that I managed to find some sort of humour in what I firmly believe was a very close call. I think she might easily have strangled me and possibly eaten me had not my cries been heard. She was returned that same day to Margate where she lived in a guesthouse surrounded by her collection of stuffed animals, until her death in 1962." Graham Knuttel
"My mother's family were more normal. Many of my summer holidays were spent at their house in Northampton. We went to England two or three times a year and I remember the atmosphere of that journey very well. We took The Princess Maud, a steam-ship notorious for its creaking and rolling, packed as it was in those days, with emigrant faces. We made the journey at night with a three-hour wait at dawn in Crewe Station for a connection. Under the grime and soot it was a magnificent building with its ornate brickwork and cast and wrought iron. In many ways the scenes were reminiscent of the air raid drawings of Henry Moore. Today when I draw people, I draw in caricature; railway porters I have seen asleep on mail bags, weary, worried men and women, busy and intent on that awful survival." Graham Knuttel
Graham Knuttel's bold use of colour and form and the narrative tensions which wind their way through all his work, make him a true story teller. Knuttel's works are instantly recognizable, making him one of Ireland's most popular and collectable living artists of our time.
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