The Connor Brothers
I Drink To Make Other People More Interesting
Giclee print with silkscreen varnish
42 x 29 cm
The Connor Brothers
I Wondered If I Would Spend The Rest Of My Life Inventing Complicated Ways To Depress Myself
Giclee print with silkscreen varnish
41.5 x 29 cm
The Connor Brothers
Normal Is The Cruelest Of All Insults
Giclee print with silkscreen varnish
70 x 50 cm
The Connor Brothers
The Way To Love Anything Is To Realise It May Be Lost
Giclee print with silkscreen varnish
41.5 x 29 cm
The Connor Brothers
Absence Makes the Days Grow Longer
Giclee print with silkscreen varnish
84 x 56 cm
The Connor Brothers
Those Who Say It Cannot Be Done Should Not Interrupt Those Of Us Who Are Doing It
Giclee print with silkscreen varnish
120 x 75 cm
The Connor Brothers
Every Saint Has a Past and Every Sinner Has a Future
Hand painted vintage paperback with silkscreen print
16 x 11 x 1 cm
"Most people are happy to think, 'this is the way it is'. But it really isn't. Who knows the truth of anything?"
The Connor Brothers are fictional characters Franklyn and Brendan Connor, whose work blurs the line between fiction and reality. Through humour and dark pathos, they make us question how we experience things and how we construct our own sense of reality, by giving us a glimpse of the infinite possibilities surrounding us.
Their acclaimed four year long 'Pulp Fiction' series was an incredibly rich body of work which recontextualised the artworks of 1950's dime novels, reworked to give new and unsettling meanings. Hollywood heroes and vintage pin ups are paired with wry, witty and sometimes dark captions, echoing contemporary sentiment through these romantic nostalgic subjects.
The Pulp Fiction series has served as a vehicle for the Brothers to explore contemporary society's obsession with fake news and a post truth reality, questioning what we mean when we say that something is 'true'.
