Awareness: Connor Walton

Exhibitions

2013 Elements, Beaux Arts Bath, UK
2012 Allegories of Painting, Dunamaise Arts Centre, Ireland
2012 Allegories of Painting, Galleri PAN, Oslo, Norway
2011 Allegories of Painting, Galleri Nexus, Denmark
2010 New Paintings, Beaux Arts Bath, UK
2009 Landscape and Still Life, Jorgensen Fine Art, Ireland
2006 Philosophical Paintings, Jorgensen Fine Art, Ireland
2003 New Work, Jorgensen Fine Art, Ireland
2003 Shelter Portraits, Jorgensen Fine Art, Ireland
1999 Conor Walton, Jorgensen Fine Art, Ireland
His eleventh solo exhibition will take place at the Peppercanister Gallery, Dublin, in November 2013.

Selected Group Exhibitions
2013 Janus, Peppercanister Gallery, Dublin
2012 Christmas Exhibition, Peppercanister Gallery, Dublin.
CK Contemporary at the Miami Art Fair, Miami Beach, USA.
Wexford Opera Festival Exhibition, Greenacres Gallery, Wexford (also 2009)
Travelling Exhibition, Galleri PAN, Geilo & Stavanger, Norway.
Group Exhibition, Windsor Fine Art, New Orleans, USA.
Dublin Biennial, Point Village, Dublin.
Group Exhibition, CK Contemporary, San Francisco, USA.
Apokalips, Grattacielo Pirelli, Milan, Italy.
Postcards from a Small Island, Beaux Arts Bath, Avon, UK.
12 X 4, Gormleys, Belfast.
RHA Annual Exhibition, RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin (also ’97, ’98, ’01, ’04,’05,’07, ’08 & ‘11). 

2011 La Situazione, Spazio Giuccardini, Milan, Italy.
The Boyle Arts Festival, Boyle, Co. Roscommon, (also ’04, ’05, ’09, ’10).
Nude – Blatant Exhibitionism, Kenny Gallery, Galway.
Level, Dunamaise Arts Centre, Portlaoise (also 2010).
Life Room, Bourn Vincent Gallery, University College Limerick.
2010 The Myth of the True, Palazzo Litta, Milan, Italy. 
The Guardians of the Spirit, Castello di San Leo, Italy.
30th Anniversary Exhibition, Beaux Arts Bath, Avon, UK. 
Kitch Biennale 2010, Palazzo Cini Gallery, Venice, Italy.
Julesalong, Gallery Pan, Oslo, Norway. 
Christmas Exhibition, The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh, UK (also 2009).
2009 Best of BP Portrait Painters, The A Gallery, London.
Mick O’Dea Selects, Lavit Gallery, Cork. 
CASe, Lavit Gallery, Cork (also 2008).
Summer Exhibition, Newtownbarry House Gallery, Wexford (also 2008). 
Christmas Exhibition, Beaux Arts Bath, Avon, UK (also 2008).
2008 Kitch Biennale 2008, Pasinger Fabrik, Munich, Germany.
Summer Exhibition, Jorgensen Fine Art (also 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004).
Spring Exhibition, Jorgensen Fine Art (also 1997, 1998, 2004, 2005, 2007).
2007 Christmas Exhibition, Jorgensen Fine Art (also 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005).
Group Exhibition, Killarney Art Gallery. 
Summer Exhibition, Mellerstain House, Berwickshire, UK.
Artists of Fame and Promise, Beaux Arts Bath, Avon, UK. 
New Realism, The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh, UK.
2006 Highlights of the Taylor Art Prize, 1878 – 2005, National Gallery of Ireland.
Mirror Image, Artonomy, Cornwall, UK.
2005 Portrait Ireland 2005, Newtownbarry House Gallery, Wexford.
BP Portrait Award 2005, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK. 
The Irish Show, Wykeham Gallery, Hampshire, UK
2004 RHA Banquet Show, RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin (also 1997).
Additions 2004, National Self Portrait Collection, University of Limerick
2000 Florence Biennale in Dublin, Ashford Gallery, Dublin
1999 Florence Biennale, Fortezza da Basso, Firenze, Italy.
1996 Two Touches, Three Tastes, Ormond Gallery, Dublin.
NCAD Drawing 250, RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin.
Oireachtas Exhibition, Guinness Hops Store, Dublin (also 1994).
1993 Taylor Exhibition, RDS, Ballsbridge, Dublin.
NCAD Degree Show, RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin.

This artist, Connor Walton, is particularly interesting to me because even though his work is done traditionally it often has a twist to make it modern. His focus is on people, where we come from, and their destruction. Walton's subject matter is often interesting and odd which I enjoy. I also admire his use of social media like facebook to complete his work. Through out the process of making the work, Walton shows process shots and uses comments to improve it as well as comparing work he made improvements on to the original to better inform his larger work. As a part of this the image of the skull with a paper crown is used many times in Walton's art, and yet each time there are new nuances.

Education

1993 BA (Joint Honour's Degree in the History of Art and Fine Art), NCAD, Doublin

1995 MA in Art History and Theory 
University of Essex, UK (awarded with distinction)

1995-6 Studied in Florence with Charles H. Cecil Less

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