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David Godbold
(born uk 1961) is best known for his work in the medium of
drawing, but his satirical and humour-laden gallery practice also includes
installational wall drawings and an extensive use of text. As such, he
is considered as much a writer and thinker as a visual artist. He has
exhibited extensively and his work is represented in the collections of
Trinity College, Dublin, and the Irish Museum of Modern Art, as well
as numerous private and corporate collections throughout Europe
and the usa. He studied at Goldsmiths’ College, London (1981–4) and
completed a Ph.D. in fine art and visual culture at the National University
of Ireland (2007). Having first come to prominence in the mid-1980s as
one half of the duo Godbold &Wood, he undertook a residency at PS1/
moma, New York in 2000, and in 2005 was controversially selected to
officially document the recent uk parliamentary elections in a series
of drawings for the permanent collection of the House of Commons.
Godbold recently participated in the Artists’ Residency Programme
at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, in 2009, and was a Rome
scholar at the British School in Rome, 2002. He has exhibited in group
projects at the Irish Museum of Modern Art and the Von der Heydt-
Museum, Germany in 2011; the Barbican, London, 2010; and in the
Dave Eggers – curated exhibition Lots of Things Like This at apexart,
New York, 2008, along with critically acclaimed shows at Kerlin Gallery,
Dublin, Kluser Gallery, Munich and Mitchell Innes and Nash Gallery in
New York. He lives and works in Dublin, Ireland.
Gabhann Dunne
graduated from dit in 2007 with a ba (Hons) in Fine Art,
and a Masters in Fine Art from ncad in 2011. He has been the recipient
of several awards including the Taylor Art Award, Royal Dublin Society
(rds) National Craft and Student Art Awards in 2011; the Hennessy
Craig Scholarship Award and Whytes Award for painting for his entry
in the 2009 rha Annual Exhibition.
Dunne's solo exhibitions include: The Wavemaker’s Vision, Rubicon
Gallery, 2012; The Crossing, Roscommon Arts Centre, 2012; The
Outermost House, the nag/Cross Gallery, 2009; and Theckla's Wood,
Alternative Entertainments Gallery, 2008.
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