- Art Collection Updates
- Works of Art
- Yvonne Audette, Sun's Rebirth
- G W Bot Hieroglyphs (Requiem)
- Arthur Boyd
- Alexander Boynes: Changing Places
- Robert Boynes, Observer and Observed
- Robert Boynes, Those Lifeless things
- Jan Brown, Magpies
- Hilary Crawford, Sugar Town and other works
- Fred Cress A Hidden Place
- Ray Crooke , The Islanders & Girl at Table
- Ante Dabro Reclining Figure
- Greg Daly Dawn & Dusk
- Neville Dawson: Dr Tom Calma
- Diane Firth, Bimbimbie
- Graham Fransella, Figure in the Sand
- Sally Gabori My Country
- Bernard Hardy, Canberra Series
- Bernard Hardy, Woolwinder
- Libby Hathorn by Myriam Kin-Yee
- Bevan Haywood Final Showdown
- Napanangka Katungka Kutjarr Kunya at Intinti
- Dale Huddleston, Mural
- Michael Johnson Ellamatta Mauve
- Abie Loy Kemarre Bush Medicine Leaf Dreaming
- Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Untitled, Awelye
- Warren Langley, The Collective Memory
- Doug Lawrie, Untitled Round Vase
- Michael Le Grand, Yo-yo.
- Sue Lovegrove: Vanishing #352
- Tim Maguire, Untitled
- Queenie McKenzie Mooloogoor Hills
- Ann Marie McMahon, The Two Walyers
- Sally Morgan The Circle and other works
- Ngoia Pollard Napaltjarii: Water Soakages near Nyrripi
- Walangkura Napanangka Kutungka Napanangka at Papunga
- Trevor Nickolls, Bird
- Sir Sydney Nolan: Night and Desert Landscapes
- Tiger Palpatja Wanampi Tjukurpa
- Ningura Papurrula Women's Ceremonies
- Peter Pedriau, Coverer in Yellow
- Minnie Pwerle, Women's Ceremonies
- William Robinson , Twin Falls
- Darby Jampijimpa Ross: Emu & Water Jukurrpa
- Tom Rowney, Black, White and Grey Merletto Bowl
- William Sandy, Bush Bean Dreaming
- Jörg Schmeisser, Here and Now, Echoes of the Past
- Brian Seidel, Autumn Pond and Tropical Pond
- Michael Taylor, Showers
- Imants Tillers: Home Visitation III
- Freddie Ngarrmaliny Timms, Mud Springs
- Mykal Zschech, various works
- Agni Klintuni Boedhihartono Mural paintings
- David Voigt Ravenhill Gate and other works
- George Gittoes, The Henna Tattoo
- Sydney Nolan: Mask VIII
- Judith Clingan, Shearing Top Naas
- Eris Fleming, Hillside Paddock
- GW Bot, Threnody
- Ante Dabro, Untitled Drawings
- Robin Nelson Drawings
- Colin Jordan, Intruder
- Stan De Teliga, Kydra River
- Dianne Firth, Black Opal
- Jack Featherstone, Alpine Ash Bark Painting
- Karla Dickens Second Skin
- One by Geoffrey Drake-Brockman
- Sculpture 19 by Derek F Wrigley
- Robin White wood cut series
- Graham Eadie,, Various works
- Peter Laverty, Seascape
- Paul Cavell, Postcard Incident
- Frank Hodgkinson, Black Cockatoo
- Brian Hirst Flat form Teal
- Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri Marrawa
- Tommy Watson, Untitled, 2013 & 2016
- Sándor Györfi, Ignaz Semmelweis sculplture
- Jimmy Baker, Kalaya Tjukurpa
- Ian Henderson, Where is your heart and other works
- Maringka Baker: Kalinpil
- David Miller: Inarki
- Robert Hannaford, Jean Blackburn
- Elizabeth Kruger: Blushing Banksias
- David Armfield, Morris's Vineyard
- Cecily Gibson, Untitled Stoneware Bowl
- George Baldessin, Ed25 & Untitled works
- Andrew Sibley, The Trolley Pushers and other works
- Keith Looby, Packaged Landscape
- David Rose- Magpie in Orange Tree
- Unknown artist: Japanese Wedding Kimono
- Salvatore Zofrea, Various Works of Art
- Basil Hadley: Over Under the Trees
- Dacre Henry Deudreath Smyth: Towards Captains Flat
- Nancy Parker, Main Street, Braidwood
- John Coburn, Various Works
- Geoffrey De Groen: Untitled
- Kenneth Jack: Normanton Station
- Elizabeth Rooney: Various Drawings
- Frances Jones: Still life works
- Margaret Olley: Interior
- Colin Moyston: Victoria Line
- Sven Hiroe: Various ceramic works
- Keiko Schmeisser: In the Fold and Stellar Reflections
- Les Blakebrough: In the Long Grass with Claudia Rose
- Anne Greenwood Untitled
- Bea Maddock Square II
- David Lu Spring Melody
- Cedric Flower Cooma Cottage and other works of art
- Sam Herman Red and Yellow Glass Vases
- Graham Kuo Harbour Mist and other Works
- David Schlunke Air
- Gillie and Marc: Love the Last Exhibition
- John Santry, Geese at Hill End
- Arthur Wicks, Stretcher
- Owen Piggott, Rock Platform
- Robert Pengiley, Various Works
- Heather Ellyard, Dust Storm
- Maximillian Feuering, Bellevue Hill Park
- William Fletcher, Banksia
- Richard and Dilys Brecknock, Various works
- Dick Roughsey, Various works
- Fred Jessup, Boats and Shells
- Jean Conron, Flower Study
- Kevin Conner, Self Portrait with Bird and other Works
- Charles Blackman, The Girl with Dark Plaits
- Reg Livermore: Hydrangea
- Frank Knight Red Kangaroo
- Brian Dunlop Various Works
- Dennis Baker, Kimberley
- Ronnie Tjampitinpa: Untitled
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- Kevin Conner, Self Portrait with Bird and other Works
Kevin Conner, Self Portrait with Bird and other Works
Kevin Connor, Self Portrait with Bird and Other Works
The Artist
Born in Sydney in 1932, Kevin, Leslie, Connor studied between 1948 and 1949 at Jos Holloway's sketch club in Haymarket. He travelled extensively in the 1950s living and painting in the UK, USA, Canada Spain, the Middle East and Egypt.
Kevin Connor is one of Australia's finest urban expressionist painters known for his ability to capture the vibrancy and dynamism of unassuming scenes of the inner city and its various inhabitants (particularly Sydney where he spent much of his working life). Connor's figure compositions and city scenes have long been a strong subject matter in his work since the early 1980s. As a great observer, Connor can often be found sketching from life in his notebook in the streets of Sydney, Paris, New York and London. Representing his own narrative of a place whether in paint, charcoal, ink or gouache, Connor's view of the city is often a lonely place of flux. Although drawn from life, the paintings are occasionally memory-based or imaginary scenarios of a location's history where the characters are captured in a moment in time.
Connnor's first solo exhibition was in 1962 and he has since held regular solo exhibitions in Manly, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, , Heide Park and Art Gallery, Melbourne, the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, Broken HIll City Art Gallery and the Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney.
Connor has exhibitied in the Archibald Prize over 25 times and won the prestigeous art prize twice (1975 and 1977). He has also won the Sulman Prize twice and is the only artist to have won the Dobell Art Prize twice (1992 and 2005). Connor has also been a finalist in the Wynne Art Prize in 2010.
In 1992, Connor spent several weeks in Iraq, drawing and painting the war damaged areas around Amman and Baghdad after the first Gulf War. Some of these works are now in the permanent collection of the Australian War Memorial, Canberra.
[Image of Corner of Connor's Garden]
The Works of Art
The University of Canberra holds in its Art Collection two works by Kevin Connor. The first is a detailed study of foliage from Connor's own garden, titled, funilly enough, 'Corner of Connor's Garden.' Painted oil on canvas in 1974, is highly detailed which belies Connor's ability to observe even the finest of details. The second work is a charcoal and wash drawing of the artist with a bird. It is a simple line drawing but one full of life and movement. It shows Connor's ability to capture essential details to make his portraiture lifelike. The self portrait was created a little earlier than the first, in 1970. Both works of art have considerable value when compared to other examples of his works - some of which have been sourced and shown below.
References
Kevin Connor entry by Artist Profile, https://www.artistprofile.com.au/kevin-connor/ viewed 21/05/2020
Kevin Connor entry (Wikipedia) , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Connor_(artist
Kevin Connor Design and Art Australia, https://www.daao.org.au/bio/kevin-connor/biography/
Kevin Connor, by Steve Lopes, Art Almanac, https://www.art-almanac.com.au/kevin-connor/
Alan & Susan McCulloch, The Encyclopedia of Australian Art, Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 1994. p175-6