Conor Fallon was born in Dublin in 1939 and raised in Co. Wexford. He began painting while studying at Trinity College, Dublin in 1957, and then moved to Cornwall in 1965 to pursue his artistic career. In 1966 he married the Welsh painter Nancy Wynne-Jones and in the ensuing years he turned his focus from painting to sculpture under the guidance of Denis Mitchell. His first exhibition of sculpture was held at Newlyn Orion in 1972 and in the same year he returned with Nancy to live and work in Ireland. Fallon often cited the influence of his father, the poet Pádraic Fallon, on his work, which became increasingly concerned with an exploration of the internal planes of his sculptures and their relationship to the surrounding negative space. Animals wrought in mild steel, bronze, cast iron and stainless steel populated Fallon’s work throughout his life and cockerels, salmon, crows, horses and hawks re-appear frequently.
Conor Fallon was awarded the Oireachtas Gold Medal for Sculpture in 1980 and an Honorary Associateship of the National College of Art and Design in 1993. He was a member of both Aosdána and the RHA, and served two terms as RHA Secretary. Fallon exhibited his work in solo shows with the Emmet Gallery, Lad Lane Gallery and Sligo Art Gallery, and in 1996 took part in a two-man show with Seán McSweeney at the RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin which went on to tour exhibition spaces around the country. Among his many public commissions are work for St. Patrick’s Hospital, Dublin, Irish Life, University College Dublin, University College Cork and Independent Newspapers. Fallon’s work is also included in numerous private collections both in Ireland and abroad. Conor Fallon died in 2007.
Exhibitions with Taylor Galleries:2005 Evr’y bird that cuts the airy way
1997 Further Small Discoveries – Recent Sculpture
1993 with Breon O’Casey
1990 Recent Sculpture
1983