Conor Rogers - In conversation with Sian Brown

Conor Rogers is a multi award-winning Sheffield-based artist and the creator of Off the Shelf’s brochure cover.  He has exhibited work nationally and internationally most recently for the National Portrait Gallery. In 2019 he won 1st Prize at the Robert Walters Group UK Young Artist of the Year Award at the Saatchi Gallery.  At the heart of Conor’s practice is storytelling manifested using a visual, poetic, language translated through painted and sculpted depictions from everyday life.  In this illustrated in conversation Conor will talk about his art and his poetry.

“Burnt out stolen cars, gangs smashing bottles on walls, mums shouting their 5 kids in for dinner, police chasing youths over garden fences ….  Although I was not conscious of this at the time, my practice began as a kid living on Sheffield Council estates.” Conor Rogers