Conor Fallon
Conor Fallon was born in Dublin into a distinguished family of poets, writers, businessmen and artists. He began painting while attending Trinity College Dublin and turned to sculpture in 1960s. In 1964 he visited a family friend, Tony O’Malley (1913-2003), at St Ives in Cornwall, an artist colony which bred ideas and shared enthusiasm for the development of art. While he had hoped to meet with the influential British painter, Peter Lanyon (1918-1964), tragedy struck resulting in Lanyon’s death. He instead met Nancy Wynne-Jones (1922-2006), who he married, and became interested in sculpture. It was here he became the modernist sculpture who would become a forerunner in Irish art. In 1972 Fallon and his wife returned to Ireland and settled, first in Cork and finally in Wicklow. Throughout 1980s and 1990s Fallon won a number of high profile commissions.
His sculptures portray everyday objects but contrived in a way which elevates their aesthetic value to beautiful form. Working mainly in steel and occasionally in bronze, he favoured wildlife of the Celtic tradition such as hares, fish and birds.
Among his achievements Fallon won the Oireachtas Gold medal for sculpture in 1980, he was an elected member of the Royal Hibernian Academy, an elected member of Aosdána and an elected member of Newlyn Society of Artists. He was an enthusiastic board member of the National Gallery of Ireland.
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His sculptures portray everyday objects but contrived in a way which elevates their aesthetic value to beautiful form. Working mainly in steel and occasionally in bronze, he favoured wildlife of the Celtic tradition such as hares, fish and birds.
Among his achievements Fallon won the Oireachtas Gold medal for sculpture in 1980, he was an elected member of the Royal Hibernian Academy, an elected member of Aosdána and an elected member of Newlyn Society of Artists. He was an enthusiastic board member of the National Gallery of Ireland.
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