Live and work in London
ALL THIS HAPPENED, MORE OR LESS
Have you ever had a Zombie? The fruity classic was created by “Don The Beachcomber”, whose 1930s new-concept cocktails were so different that he kept the recipes secret for years. Even his longest-serving bartenders made the drinks from instructions like “2 Parts Don’s Mix #9”, which came from plain-glass bottles. For years, customers and professionals endeavoured to guess the ingredients. But what do the particulars matter, when the end-result is so all-round satisfying?
So said Vonnegut (“What is truth and what is fiction, and what’s it matter anyway, so long as you understand the message?”—Slaughterhouse Five)—and so say The Connor Brothers.
Postmodernists are often criticised for the absence or opacity of their personal point of view. The relativist stance can cohere, another tranche of practitioners may say, for only as long as the rogue memes are prevented from going viral, or implosion/explosion is absent in an individual aggregation. The Connor Brothers resolution rests on the Albert Camus idea that excising one’s personality from the project provides a neutral zone where we are free to consort and wrestle with our other selves and others, autonomously and anonymously looking, seeing, reflecting, retrieving, refracting. The result should be Absurdist extensions of the Poststructuralist ID, turning on transparency.
In the constant battle to overcome their demons through the portal of creativity, Snelle & Golding aka The Connor Brothers take on veracity. By exposing the towering artificiality that has been constructed for the diversion of the populace since the second quarter of the twentieth century, The Connor Brothers extend an invitation to join them in interrogating the whole edifice—including the foundations of one’s own identity. Thus there is nothing fake about their Franklyn-and-Brendan-Connor ruse. It is a means to an end, with the end justifying the means as ‘The Connor Brothers’ connect and communicate with societal layers generally and then specifically, openly contributing to organisations that offer support for alternative experiences, including addiction, depression and displacement.
“And That Was The End Of The Beginning Of That.”
Billie Proffitt
May 2015
(adapted August 2015)
\ Exhibition featured works
The Connor Brothers
All Things Truly Wicked Start From Innocence- Ernest Hemingway
2015 \ 19th Century Bastardised Engraving with Screen print \ 38x33cm
SOLD
The Connor Brothers
All Too Much And Not Enough At The Same Time- Jack Kerouac
2015 \ Hand painted vintage book with silk-screen print \ 27x20.5cm
SOLD
The Connor Brothers
All the true things I'm about to tell you are shameless lies- Kurt Vonnegut
2015 \ Mixed media on canvas \ 75x45cm
SOLD
The Connor Brothers
All this Happened, More or Less- Kurt Vonnegut
2015 \ 19th Century Bastardised Engraving with Screen print \ 33x38cm
SOLD
The Connor Brothers
All this happened, More or Less
2015 \ Bastardised 17th century oil painting \ 60x89cm
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The Connor Brothers
All this happened, More or less- Kurt Vonnegut
2015 \ Mixed media on canvas \ 75x45cm
SOLD
The Connor Brothers
Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself- David Foster Wallace
2015 \ Hand painted vintage book with silk-screen print \ 27x20.5cm
SOLD
The Connor Brothers
And That Was The End Of The Beginning Of That- Kurt Vonnegut
2015 \ 19th Century Bastardised Engraving with Screen print \ 38x33cm
SOLD
The Connor Brothers
And That Was The End Of The Beginning Of That- Unknown
2015 \ Hand painted vintage book with silk-screen print \ 27x20.5cm
SOLD
The Connor Brothers
And that was the end of the beginning of that- Unknown
2015 \ Mixed media on canvas \ 110x75cm
SOLD
The Connor Brothers
Call on God, But Row Away From The Rocks
2015 \ 19th Century Bastardised Engraving with Screen print \ 33x38cm
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The Connor Brothers
Every love story is a ghost story
2015 \ 19th c bastardised engraving with screenprint \ 38x33cm
SOLD
The Connor Brothers
Everything I've Ever Let Go Of Has Claw Marks On it- David Foster Wallace
2015 \ Hand painted vintage book with silk-screen print \ 27x20.5cm
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The Connor Brothers
Everything I've ever let go of has claw marks on it- David Foster Wallace
2015 \ Mixed media on canvas \ 180x110cm
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The Connor Brothers
Everything Was Beautiful And Nothing Hurt- Kurt Vonnegut
2015 \ Hand painted vintage book with silk-screen print \ 27x20.5cm
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The Connor Brothers
Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt- Kurt Vonnegut
2015 \ Mixed media on canvas \ 180x110cm
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The Connor Brothers
I Don't Know Exactly What I Mean By That But I Mean It- J.D. Salinger
2015 \ Hand painted vintage book with silk-screen print \ 27x20.5cm
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The Connor Brothers
I Tried To Drown My Sorrows But The Bastard's Learned To Swim- Frieda Khalo
2015 \ Hand painted vintage book with silk-screen print \ 27x20.5cm
SOLD
The Connor Brothers
I knew it wasn't too important, but it made me sad anyway
2015 \ Mixed media on canvas \ 110x75cm
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The Connor Brothers
I knew it wasn't too important, but it made me sad anyway- J.D.Salinger
2015 \ Hand painted vintage book with silk-screen print \ 27x20.5cm
SOLD
The Connor Brothers
I tried to drown my sorrow, but the bastards learned to swim
2015 \ Mixed media on canvas \ 110x75cm
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The Connor Brothers
Insanity, A perfectly Rational Adjustment To An Insane World- R.D Laing
2015 \ Hand painted vintage book with silk-screen print \ 27x20.5cm
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The Connor Brothers
It never got weird enough for me- Hunter S.Thompson
2015 \ Mixed media on canvas \ 110x75cm
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The Connor Brothers
So It Goes- Kurt Vonnegut
2015 \ Hand painted vintage book with silk-screen print \ 27x20.5cm
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The Connor Brothers
The Edge- Hunter S. Thompson
2015 \ Hand painted vintage book with silk-screen print \ 27x20.5cm
SOLD Sold
The Connor Brothers
The Temptation of Adam
2015 \ 19th Century Bastardised Engraving with Screen print \ 38x33cm
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The Connor Brothers
The Truth Will Set You Free*- David Foster Wallace
2015 \ Hand painted vintage book with silk-screen print \ 27x20.5cm
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The Connor Brothers
The sun, like a sneaky keyhole view of hell- David Foster Wallace
2015 \ Mixed media on canvas \ 110x75cm
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The Connor Brothers
The sun, like a sneaky keyhole view of hell-David Foster Wallace
2015 \ Hand painted vintage book with silk-screen print \ 27x205.cm
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The Connor Brothers
Truth is Weirder Than Any Fiction I've Seen- Hunter S. Thompson
2015 \ Hand painted vintage book with silk-screen print \ 27x20.5cm
SOLD
The Connor Brothers
Truth is weirder than any fiction I've seen - Hunter S. Thompson
2015 \ Giclee print and silkscreen varnish \ 125x78cm
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The Connor Brothers
Truth will set you free, but not until it is finished with you- David Foster Wallace
2015 \ Mixed media on canvas \ 180x110cm
The Connor Brothers
We Must Be Careful About What We Pretend To Be- Kurt Vonnegut
2015 \ 19th Century Bastardised Engraving with Screen print \ 33x38cm
SOLD
The Connor Brothers
We Must Be Careful About What We Pretend To Be- Kurt Vonnegut
2015 \ Hand painted vintage book with silk-screen print \ 27x20.5cm
SOLD
The Connor Brothers
We must be careful about what we pretend to be-Kurt Vonnegut
2015 \ mixed media on canvas \ 110x75cm
SOLD
The Connor Brothers
Weird Heroes- Hunter S.Thompson
2015 \ Hand painted vintage book with silk-screen print \ 27x20.5cm
SOLD
The Connor Brothers
i tried to drown my sorrow but the bastard's learned to swim- frieda kahlo
2015 \ Mixed media on canvas \ 180x110cm
SOLD
The Connor Brothers
truth is weirder than any fiction I've seen- Hunter S.Thompson
2015 \ Mixed media on canvas \ 180x110cm
SOLD
\ Other exhibitions
12 - 14 Meagher Street
Chippendale, NSW 2008
Opening Hours
Monday to Friday, 9am - 5pm Saturday, 11am - 4pm Summer Dates: The gallery will close on Friday 20 December and reopen on Monday 13 January, 2025 Closed Public Holidays (and Easter Saturday)
Monday to Friday, 9am - 5pm Saturday, 11am - 4pm Summer Dates: The gallery will close on Friday 20 December and reopen on Monday 13 January, 2025 Closed Public Holidays (and Easter Saturday)