CONROY MADDOX

“ Conroy Maddox discovered surrealism by chance in 1935 and has spent the rest of his life exploring its potential through his paintings, collages, gouaches, photographs, objects and texts. From his early twenties, he set out on a quest for ‘the marvellous liberating power of the imagination’ which the surrealist movement promised. Inspired by artists such as Max Ernst and Oscar Dominguez, he rejected academic painting and began to produce works which expressed the surrealist spirit of rebellion. His creations not only challenged the conventional view of reality, but they also pushed pictorial expression to the disturbing margins of unconscious desire. In 1945 some of his collages, together with works and texts by other surrealists, were seized by Scotland Yard’s Special Branch on suspicion of being dangerous to the war effort. Maddox is generally considered to be Britain’s most committed, energetic, and enduring exponent of surrealism.”

Text taken from an exhibition held at the Belgrave Gallery, London, 2001 and written by Dr. Silvano Levy, who has published extensively on surrealism and is currently working on Conroy Maddox’s biography due to be published later this year.

PUBLIC COLLECTION

Tate Gallery, London
British Museum
Victoria and Albert Museum
Leeds City Art Gallery
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
Ulster Museum, Belfast
Dean Gallery - Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
City Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke on Trent
Ferens Art Gallery, Hull
Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
Solomon Guggenheim Museum, New York
Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Gallerie Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome
Silkeborg Museum, Denmark

ONE MAN SHOWS

1946
Warwick Galleries, Birmingham

1959
New Vision Centre Gallery, London

1963
Grabowski Gallery, London

1967
Zwemmer Gallery, London

1972
Hamet Gallery, London

1973
Hamet Gallery, London

1974
Bede Gallery, Jarrow

1975
Exe Gallery, Exeter

1976
Fischer Fine Art, London
Galerie Bel’Art Stockholm
Galerie Mebius, Gotenburg

1977
Galerie Farber, Brussels
Margaret Fisher, London

1978
Camden Arts Center, London
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
Galerie Rutzmoser, Munich
Galerie d’Eendt, Amsterdam
Galerie Mebius, Gotenburg

1979
Galerie Rutzmoser, Munich

1980
Holsworthy Gallery, London

1981
Dunn’s Gallery, California
Easton Rooms, Rye, Sussex

1983
Galerie Rutzmoser, Munich

1984
Blond Fine Art, London

1986
Blond Fine Art, London

1987
Galerie Rutzmoser, Munich

1990
Bonham & Feely Gallery, London

1994
Gallery M, London

1995
City Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke on Trent
Wolverhampton Art Gallery and Museum
Leeds City Art Gallery

1996
Clayton Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne

1997
The Market House, Ledbury

1999
Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate

2001
Belgrave Gallery, London

2002
Whitford Fine Art, London