The Connor Brothers

The Connor Brothers are the pseudonym of artists and former London art gallery owners, Mike Snelle and James Golding. The name was initially created to represent a fictional American artist duo, Franklin and Brendan Connor.

Background

The Connor Brothers were launched onto the art world in early 2013. A series of limited edition prints, based on refashioned book covers, appeared at a London art fair and sold out. The Connor Brothers were given a back story, that they were American brothers who had grown up in isolation, escaped from a cult in their teens, now in their 20s living in Brooklyn where they had been creating art as a form of therapy for their trauma.

Later in 2014 two British former gallery owners confessed they were behind The Connor Brothers. Mike Snelle and James Golding had begun to explore the idea of using fake biographies at an exhibition in 2012 and Snelle had subsequently created the back story of The Connor Brothers, to mirror his and Golding's experience of mental health problems and drug addiction.