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17/3/2011

Bryan Kneal RA

Royal Academy of Arts, London

Bryan Kneal

Aspects of Drawings

The Royal Academy of Arts will present a collection of drawings and lithographic prints by sculptor Bryan Kneale RA. This will feature a group of life drawings that have never been exhibited before and which were completed during his time spent as Professor of Drawing at the Royal College of Art. Anatomical drawings and recently executed works will also be on display.

Best known as an abstract sculptor, Kneale's drawings illustrate his desire to explore how skeletons, from which many of his works are drafted, operate as living three dimensional structures. Kneale does not view these works as studies for sculpture, but rather as works in their own right; as an exploration of structural form. Throughout his career drawing has been an important part of his practice. It was a broken leg in the 1980s that limited Kneale's production of sculptural works and led him to return to drawings in a more concentrated way. He became fascinated by the collection of animal, fish, reptile and bird skeletons held at the Natural History Museum. He has observed: "Even in my most abstract work I've always searched for a persona in order to feel the work has a life of its own."

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Constructed Landscapes

18 March—12 June 2011

This exhibition explores the ways that artists and architects can reframe our perceptions of, and relationship to, landscape. Featuring the Rolex Centre in Lausanne designed by Japanese architectural practice SANAA and works by artists Jane and Louise Wilson and Suzanne Moxhay, they illustrate the power to evoke fundamental emotional responses that conjures connections to history, memory, identity and belonging.

Image: Highway 2009 by Suzanne Moxhay Courtesy of the artist

Royal Academy of Arts
Burlington House Piccadilly, London
Saturday - Thursday 10am - 6pm
Admission free Friday 10am - 10pm Admission free

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