About

Conor Quinn (b. 1998) is a painter and soft-sculptor with a background in stop-motion animation. As a queer artist growing up in a Catholic environment Conor’s work originally comprised of handmade puppets with no resemblance to gender or the societal norms with which it is saddled with the means to portray a range of relationships between the characters in his paintings while preserving his privacy. This initial shame that controlled his work later turned into a needlessness for an audience’s comprehension or approval, therefore maintaining its style and remaining a fundamentally queer practice.

Exhibitions

Earthly bodies of then, now & when - Brushes with greatness, london (2025)

Holocene - Royal college of art, london (2025)

Pictorum Gallery open studio - Pictorum gallery, London (2024)

All great ideas start in a garage - Cicek Gallery, London (2023)

Cicek Art Fair - Cicek Gallery, London (2023)

Dumfries House, Cumnock (2018)

Buckingham Palace, London (2018)

awards

British animation award (2022)

education

Royal College of Art (2025)

Arts University Bournemouth (2021)

Royal Drawing School (2018)