Conor Quinn is a British Irish painter and soft-sculptor living in London with a background in stop-motion animation. In 2025 he will graduate with a Masters in Painting from the Royal College of Art, having achieved a BA from the Arts University Bournemouth (2021) and studied at the Royal Drawing School (2018). Group exhibitions include Becoming of Memory, Arts Archive, London (2025), Chiasmata, Greatorex Street, London (2025), Earthly Bodies of Then, Now & When, BWG Gallery, London (2025), Open Studio - Pictorum Gallery, London (2024), and All Great Ideas Start In a Garage, Cicek Gallery, London (2023). He was awarded the British Animation Award in 2022.

 

Quinn has held residencies at Pictorum Gallery, London (2023, and at Dumfires House, Scotland (2018). His work is held in the Nixon Collection, which will open its London Museum in 2026.

 

As a queer artist with a Catholic upbringing, Conor Quinn’s earlier work consisted of handmade puppets that diverged from gender and societal norms, allowing him to portray relationships between characters whilst retaining his personal privacy. The initial sense of shame that underpinned his work has evolved into an empowered practice: forgoing viewers’

comprehension or approval, Quinn maintains his visual language and a fundamentally queer practice.