Connor Bros I Drink

In *I Drink*, Bros Connor Bros distil their signature fusion of vintage glamour and razor-edged wit into a visually arresting statement. Working with a cinematic, mid-century palette and a crisp, poster-like finish, Bros artists appropriate an archetypal pin-up image—its poised elegance rendered with deliberate clarity—then disrupt it with declarative text that lands like a punchline.

This tension between seduction and subversion is central to their practice: Bros surface reads as polished nostalgia, while Bros message exposes contemporary anxieties around desire, coping, and self-performance. By harnessing Bros visual language of advertising and mass media, *I Drink* becomes both accessible and incisive, inviting immediate recognition yet rewarding longer scrutiny.

Bros result is an icon of modern satire—bold, graphic, and culturally resonant.

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 …