CONRAD FRANKEL

Conrad Frankel

'Intensity of feeling, concentration of character and deeply felt humanity - that's what I want from art.'

Born Cork 1979
Art Education         

2003-2005 
City and Guilds of London Art School, MA.
1997-2003
Trinity College Dublin, BA in Biblical and Theological Studies
1991-1997
St Columba’s College, Dublin.
Solo exhibitions
2022

'War Paint', Olivier Cornet Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2018

'Road Trip', Olivier Cornet Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2015

'Mind Objects', Olivier Cornet Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2013

Jack Chiles Gallery, New York
2011

'Past Lives' solo show, Beedell Coram, Antique Shop, Spitalfieds, London
2009

'The first people', Art Work Space, Hempel Hotel, London
Group Exhibitions

2021



‘ Memento, Looking back, Looking forward ’, Winter group show, Olivier Cornet Gallery.


2020


' On Paper ', Winter group show at the Olivier Cornet Gallery.

‘ Resurfacing’ , Olivier Cornet Gallery

‘Drawing on Don Quixote’, Olivier Cornet Gallery Dublin.


2019


Drawing on Don Quixote , Opera House Wexford with Olivier Cornet Gallery.

189th Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, RHA, Dublin.

Vue 2019, National Contemporary Art Fair at the RHA, with the Olivier Cornet Gallery.


2018


188th Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, RHA, Dublin.

Vue 2018 , National Contemporary Art Fair at the RHA, with the Olivier Cornet Gallery.


2017


Vue 2017 , National Contemporary Art Fair at the RHA, with the Olivier Cornet Gallery.

187th Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, RHA, Dublin.

2016



186th Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, RHA, Dublin.


Vue 2016, Elévation group show, National Contemporary Art Fair at the RHA, with the Olivier Cornet Gallery.

2015

'Hopscotch', winter group show, Olivier Cornet Gallery.
VUE 2015, National Contemporary Art Fair at the RHA, with the Olivier Cornet Gallery.
'5 Cavendish Row', summer group show curated by Olivier Cornet and Arran Henderson, Olivier Cornet Gallery.
'A Terrible Beauty', travelling group show curated by the Olivier Cornet Gallery, Octagonal Room, City Assembly House, Dublin, by kind invitation of the Irish Georgian Society.
2014

Reflections, Christmas/winter group show, Olivier Cornet Gallery.
VUE 2014, National Contemporary Art Fair at the RHA, with the Olivier Cornet Gallery.
'Flaneries in Forests and Fields', Olivier Cornet Gallery, Dublin.
2013

'AC3 The Timekeeper', group show, Olivier Cornet Gallery, Filmbase, Dublin.
 2012

'Convergence', group show, Olivier Cornet Gallery, Dublin.
2011

'A quiet Geometry', Room Gallery, London.
2007

The Boyle Arts Festival, Ireland.
Drawing Breath, Sydney, Australia.
2005

RDS Art Fair, Dublin (Olliart Group Show with Regine Bartsch, Gerald Davis, Michael Gemmell, and Yanny Petters).
Jerwood Prize Drawing exhibition (London).
Bank of Ireland Group exhibition, Shankill Castle, Paulstown, Co. Kilkenny (painting purchased as part of the Bank of Ireland’s Art collection).
Metatron Art Gallery, Enniskerry, Co Wicklow
City and Guild Degree Show, London.
2006

'Obsession', group show, Sartorial Contemporary Art Gallery, London.
Jerwood Special Drawing Exhibition, Wimbledon.
'Young Gods', group show, Clapham Art Gallery, London.
2005

City and Guild MA show (London).
Shankill Castle Group Show, Paulstown, Co. Kilkenny.
'Neither flesh nor fleshness', Clapham Gallery, London.
2003

Joint exhibition, Private Collectors Gallery, Dublin.
Shankill Castle Group Show, Paulstown, Co. Kilkenny.

Awards & Collections

2004
Student Award for “Portrait of Phoebe” (described by the judging panel as a “Matissean image of a woman”) at the Jerwood Drawing Prize exhibition, UK's largest annual open drawing competition (2000+ entries every year).
 The de Laszlo Foundation Prize for Portraiture.
Work in private collections, Bank of Ireland Collection and the OPW
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