Conrad Atkinson
“Conrad Atkinson was to pop art what the Sex Pistols were to punk rock: the first to the barricades, the rebellious iconoclast, the knife to the gut.
Only a super artist like him he could have taken on that most kryptonite of subjects: Britain’s corrosive role in the North of Ireland. And yet he did so with a swagger and a derring-do which outraged the comfortable and comforted the afflicted.
40-plus years on, it’s worth noting that his compelling love letters from Ireland have been vindicated by peace talks, ceasefires and a power-sharing parliament. And they say art can’t save lives. It did here, courtesy of Conrad”. - Mairtin O Muilleoir, Lord Mayor of Belfast and past Finance Minister Northern Ireland. March 2020.
1940 Born, Cleator Moor, West Cumbria, England
1967 Associate Design Fellow Manchester College of Art (Manchester Metropolitan University)
1965 Royal Academy Schools, London, RAS (Honours), Painting & Drawing
1962 Liverpool College of Art, ATD (Distinction)
1961 Carlisle College of Art, NDD.Painting (special).
Since 1992 Professor of Art and Chair Dept of Art and Art History, University of California at Davis.
Currently Professor Emeritus. 2002 Distinguished Visiting Professor/Artist in Residence, Courtauld Institute, London University.
Honorary Fellow Cumbria University UK.
Churchill Fellow 1972
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