Conor Knight – ‘Feed The Beast’

Conor approaches traditional genres of painting in a contemporary manner as an autodidactic artist. His work is constructed from considered intentional brushstrokes and a desire to capture the essence of his subject, without a compulsion for fideltiy. Conor has been a finalist in the Lethbridge 20000 Small Scale Art Award (2021 and 2023), Clayton Utz Art Award (2021), National Emerging Art Prize (2021), Tony White Memorial Art Prize (2022), Lethbridge Landscape Prize (2023), Brisbane Portrait Prize (2023) and was awarded second place in the figurative category of the Doyles Art Award 2023, as well as being a finalist in the Brisbane Portrait Prize (2024) and the Lethbridge 20000 Small scale Art Award (2024).

‘Art is a beast and it must be fed, I made it these paintings so it wouldn’t eat me instead!’ Feed the beast is a small selection of recent still life paintings by Conor Knight. The works are characterised by the textures, forms and nature of what sustains us rendered with meaty but deliberate strokes of oil paint.