David Godbold

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Coloured drawings in graphite and ink on tracing paper are characteristic for the artist David Godbold. With these kinds of works, deriving from motifs of comics and old master drawings, he makes the imagery of high culture and subculture a subject of discussion. David Godbold attaches his transparent drawings to found fragments of paper and provides them with texts written by himself or abstracted out of literature and lyrics. The resulting works comprise a symbiosis between image and writing and deal with in-depth topics like war, sorrow, inner conflicts, fear of death and hope for redemption. Born 1961 in the United Kingdom, David Godbold studied at the Goldsmith College of Art in London. Between 1990 and 2007 he was lecturer at the National College of Art & Design in Dublin. Up to the present day the artist has been living and working in the Irish capital. Since 2006 the Galerie Klüser has been representing David Godbold.

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Biography

*1961, Norwich, UK. David Godbold lives and works in Dublin, Ireland. Galerie Klüser represents David Godbold since 2006.

Biography

 
2007PHD (History of Art) National College Art & Design, Dublin, Ireland
1990-2008Lectureship National College of Art & Design, Dublin, Ireland
1984-1988BA Fine Arts, Goldsmiths University London, UK
1980-1981Norwich School of Art and Design, Norwich, UK

Selected Exhibitions at Galerie Klüser and Klüser 2

 
2023DRAWING ROOMS, Group Show
2023LANDSCAPE CROSSOVER, Group Show
2012SELECTED DRAWINGS, Group Show
2011A NEW AUSTERITY, Solo Show
2009WORKS ON PAPER, Group Show
2008THE BEGINNING OF MODERN WARFARE, Solo Show

Selected Solo Exhibitions

 
2015MORE LIKE LIVING THAN LIFE ITSELF, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2011WALL DRAWING, Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal, Germany
2009A CHANGE OF THE PLAN. THE PROCESS ROOM, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
2006THE FALL GUY (REPRIEVED), project Art Center, Dublin, Ireland
DRAWINGS & WORKS ON PAPER, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
2003WHAT IS TO BE DONE?, The Lenin Museum, Hameenpuisto, Finland

Collections

 
IMMA, Dublin, Ireland
Gemeentemuseum Helmond, Helmond, Netherlands
Irish National Drawing Collection, Ireland
Limerick City Gallery, Limerick, Ireland
The Office of Public Works, Ireland
The Parliamentary Art Collection, UK
Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
The Irish American Cultural, New Jersey, USA
City Bank, New York City, USA and others

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