Kevin Connor, winner of the Archibald, Sulman and Dobell Drawing Prizes on each of two occasions, has distinguished himself as a powerful and expressive draughtsman and painter of urban landscapes and the human figure since the early 1960s. This exhibition presents the inter-relationship between his drawings and monumental paintings of the last decade or so, most particularly the fundamental part drawing from life in small, hand-held sketchbooks plays in his work. Uncompromisingly, his subject is life on the street, in cafes, railway stations, parks and foodhalls, principally in Sydney, Paris and London.
A book comprising eighty drawings selected from many sketchbooks, reproduced actual size and with an interview of the artist, is being published by the Gallery to accompany the exhibition. |
