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Kevin Connor
Sydney, Connor’s birthplace, is his primary subject, which he paints and draws with tremendous soul. Unlike many of his peers, Connor has refused to be seduced by the glistening harbour or the city’s more obvious charms. ‘The fact that Sydney has a harbour is immaterial to me,’ he once said. For Connor, Sydney is a metropolis that moves with the same rattle and hum as all the great cities of the world. The grit, the pollution, the crowds and the constant buzz; the city is where Kevin Connor feels most at home.
- Elizabeth Hastings
Kevin Connor has held over seventy solo exhibitions since 1962. Based in Sydney, he has spent periods working and studying in London, Paris, New York, Spain and Egypt and undertaken extensive travels in Europe, the USA and the Middle East.
Connor’s work has been exhibited in the Art Gallery of New South Wales, The National Gallery of Australia, and internationally in the UK, USA and Latin America. Kevin has also won some of Australia’s most prestigious awards, winning the Archibald Prize twice (1975,1977) and been a finalist 27 times, the Sulman Prize twice (1991, 1997) and the Dobell Prize for Drawing twice (1993, 2005).