Robert Connolly

Robert Connolly was born in Liverpool and lived in Australia as a child. He is an artist by training and a graduate of the Royal College of Art, and has worked mainly as a curator and organiser of exhibitions; excepting interludes as a civil servant (eating lunch at the same table as serial murderer Dennis Nilsen), working for an American construction company building Canary Wharf in London, and of course, in the funeral industry. As a performance artist (think Yoko Ono, Gilbert & George) he...See more

Robert Connolly was born in Liverpool and lived in Australia as a child. He is an artist by training and a graduate of the Royal College of Art, and has worked mainly as a curator and organiser of exhibitions; excepting interludes as a civil servant (eating lunch at the same table as serial murderer Dennis Nilsen), working for an American construction company building Canary Wharf in London, and of course, in the funeral industry. As a performance artist (think Yoko Ono, Gilbert & George) he beat Lady Gaga to it by 31 years by wearing a suit made of meat at the Slade School of Art postgraduate private view in 1979: http: //edibleguest.blogspot.co.uk He currently runs an arts charity that provides studio space for artists in London, and divides his time between there and Oslo. See less