“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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