Roger Conlon
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      • 1 Touch self portrait
      • 2 Feeling the form
      • 3 Wrapping the form
      • 4 Creating volumes with contours
      • 5 Contour systems - bracelet shading
      • 6 Tracing v copying
      • 7 Follow a leader
      • 8 Oval and Axis - constructing the figure
      • 9 Pattern : mapping and negative shapes
      • 10 Measured drawing
      • 11 Dark and light - tonal patterns
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I am currently  Deputy Dean , Faculty of Arts, Creative Industries and Education at the University of the West of England, Bristol , England

Pre 2000 


RA student prizes : Print Prize, Landseer Scholarship, Kennington Drawing Prize, David Murray Landscape Award
  Exhibited :
RA Summer Show
South London Art Gallery
John Laing Painting
Southwest Open
British Open Printmaking
Solo shows:
Exe Gallery, Exeter
Davies Gallery, Torquay
Guild Gallery, Bristol


Painting Fellowship, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA), Virginia, USA
Painting commissions for Lloyds Bank,  Cheshire Home

Post 2000 
Consultant, writer   and co –presenter  with Toyah Willcox  of  TV series ‘Lifeclass’  for HTV September 2002 
http://www.everypicturemedia.co.uk/content/view/22/1/
 
2010
one man show Milner Gallery, Royal West of England Academy 
2011
RWA Autumn Exhibition
Wotton Arts Project


2012
Drawing, Permanence & Place touring exhibition
Craft in the Bay, Cardiff

Galerie Waidspeicher im Kulturhof Krönbacken
Erfurt, Germany

Drawing Permanence and Place 2
museum voor vlakglas- en emaillekunst
Ravenstein The Netherlands





2013

Bristol Art Prize http://www.bristolartprize.co.uk/

Porth Leven prize and Plein Air prize winner




'Cornucopia' Grant Bradley Gallery, Bristol



Work in public and private collections
Lloyds TSB
Cheshire Homes
North Bristol NHS Trust http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/search/painted_by/conlon-roger-b-1958