Conor Walton
Biography
Born in Dublin in 1970
Conor lives and works in Co. Wicklow
Education
1993 National College of Art and Design, Joint Hons Degree in the History of Art and Fine Art (Painting)
He received a special commendation and prize for his thesis, ‘Abstraction: A Discourse on Language and Painting’
1995 MA in Art History and Theory at the University of Essex, distinction (dissertation subject: ‘The Battle of the Ancients and the Moderns’)
1995/96 Studied painting and old-master techniques in Florence, Italy, with Charles H. Cecil
Selected Exhibitions
2019
‘The Summer Exhibition’ – Beaux Arts Bath
BP Portrait Award travelling exhibition, UK
‘The Illusionists’, Blackboard Gallery, California USA
2018
‘Bare Essentials’ Solo Show, Green Acres Gallery, Ireland
BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London
AAF Battersea London, – with Beaux Arts Bath
ModPortrait, Museo Páblo Serrano, Zaragoza
2017
‘Still’, Beaux Arts Bath
‘Rapt & Unwrapped’, Solo Show, Chimera Gallery, Ireland
‘Artists of Fame and Promise’ Summer exhibition, Beaux Arts Bath
AAF Battersea, London – Beaux Arts Bath
‘International Surrealism Now’, Palace of Mafra, Portugal
2016
‘Artists of Fame and Promise’, Beaux Arts Bath
AAF Battersea, London – Beaux Arts Bath
‘Glow’, Catherine Hammond Gallery, Skibbereen, Co. Cork
‘Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year’, The Wallace Collection, London
2015
Beaux Arts Bath, AAF Battersea, London
The Enemies of Progress- CK Contemporary, San Francisco, USA
‘La Figure Humaine’ Solo Show, Galerie L’Oeil du Prince, Paris, France
AAF Battersea, London – Beaux Arts Bath
Beaux Arts Bath, 20/21 British Art Fair
2014
AAF Battersea, London – Beaux Arts Bath
Dublin Biennial 2014, CHQ Building, Dublin.
Objects of Beauty, CK Contemporary, San Francisco USA.
2013
‘Elements’ Solo Exhibition, Beaux Arts Bath
Vanitas, Peppercanister Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2012
Artists of Fame and Promise, Beaux Arts Bath
‘Allegories of Painting’ Solo Show, Galleri PAN, Oslo, Norway
2010
‘The Guardians of the Spirit’, Castello di San Leo, Italy
30th Anniversary Exhibition, Beaux Arts Bath
Beaux Arts Bath, 20/21 British Art Fair
2007
‘Artists of Fame and Promise’, Beaux Arts Bath
2000-06 Jorgensen Fine Art, Dublin
1999 First solo exhibition in Dublin
Awards
First Prize, ModPortrait 2017, Zaragoza and MEAM Barcelona
Third Prize, Still Life Category, International ARC Salon (2014-2015)
Finalist and sitter’s choice, Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year 2014, Dublin heat
Portrait Ireland 2005 Major Award, Newtownbarry House Gallery (2005)
Shortlisted, BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London (2005)
Third Prize `Lorenzo Il Magnifico’ for Painting, Florence Biennale (1999)
Don Niccolo D’Ardia Caracciolo RHA Medal (1997)
Keating McLoughlin Medal awarded by the ESB (1997)
Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, Montreal, Canada, Scholarship (1994)
Royal Dublin Society Taylor Art Bequest, First Prize (1993)
Public Collections
Archdiocese of Dublin
Boyle Civic Collection
Club na Muinteoirí
Dublin Dental Hospital
Electricity Supply Board
Maynooth College
National Library of Ireland
National Self-Portrait Collection
University of Limerick
St Patrick’s College, Cavan
University College Dublin