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Conroy Maddox
Conroy Maddox (1912–2005): A Surrealist Odyssey Conroy Maddox (27 december 1912 – 14 januari 2005) was an english surrealist painter, collagist, writer and lecturer; and a key figure in the birmingham surrealist movement. He was born in Ledbury, Herefordshire, and discovered surrealism in 1935, spending the rest of his life exploring its potential through his paintings, collages, photographs, objects and texts. Inspired by artists such
as max ernst, óscar domínguez and salvador dalí, he rejected academic painting in favour of techniques that expressed the surrealistic spirit of rebellion. Maddox officially joined the british surrealist group in 1938. His creations soon began not only to challenge the conventional view of reality, but also to push pictorial expression to the limits of consciousness. He was even implicated in both scandal and controversy when, during…