Nationality: Irish

BIOGRAPHY OF CONOR FALLON
The third of the six sons of the poet Padraic Fallon, Conor Fallon was born in Dublin in 1939 and brought up in County Wexford.
While a student at Trinity College Dublin in 1957, he started to paint, encouraged by Richard Kingston.
He first went to Cornwall in 1964 to visit his father's friend the painter Tony O'Malley who was then living near St.Ives, and moved there permanently in 1965.
In 1966, he married the Welsh painter Nancy Wynne-Jones, who had been living in Cornwall for several years.
Exhibiting paintings regularly with the Newlyn Society of Artists, he was elected a Member of that Society in 1969. In 1970, he made his first sculpture which was seen by Denis Mitchell, himself a painter turned sculptor, who encouraged him to work solely as a sculptor.
In 1972, he had a one-person exhibition at Newlyn Art Gallery, showing both painting and sculpture, and also in that year, he and his wife moved to Ireland, living at Kinsale in County Cork.
In Kinsale, with the encouragement of Mitchell and of the sculptor Robert Adams who both visited him there, he experimented in different areas of sculpture, settling into a figurative Constructivist style in steel which he first exhibited in the Emmet Gallery in Dublin in 1977 in a joint exhibition with Nancy Wynne-Jones.
Moving to Suzanne MacDougald's Lad Lane Gallery in Dublin when the Emmet Gallery closed, he showed steel sculptures in a joint exhibition with Nancy Wynne-Jones in 1978.
In 1980, he joined the Taylor Galleries in Dublin, who still represent him, and he held one-person exhibitions there in 1984, 1990, 1997 and 2005, together with a joint exhibition with his close friend Breon O'Casey in 1993.
In 1985, the Arts Council of Ireland put together an exhibition of his sculpture which toured Ireland.
In 1994, he had a one-person exhibition at Sligo Art Gallery and in 1996, a joint exhibition with the painter Sean MacSweeney at the Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin, which later toured Ireland.
In 1997, he had a one-person exhibition in London with Theo Waddington Fine Art.
He was awarded the Oireachtas Gold Medal for Sculpture in 1980; elected to Aosdana in 1984; elected an Associate Member of the Royal Hibernian Academy in 1981 and a full Member in 1989, resigning that Membership in 2004, and being elected an Honorary Member of the Academy, (HRHA), in the same year.
He was awarded an Honorary Associateship of the National College of Art and Design in 1993.
His work has been exhibited throughout Europe and the United States of America, and his principal public commissions include St. Patrick's and St. Luke's Hospitals in Dublin; the University Colleges of Cork and Dublin; Independent Newspapers at Citywest and a monument to his father at Athenry, County Galway.
A monograph on his work was published by Gandon Editions in 1996, with contributions by Vera Ryan, Hilary Pyle, Ciaran McGonigal and Seamus Heaney.
Conor Fallon died in October 2006.