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Conroy Maddox, (December 27 1912-January 14 2005),
was a United Kingdom|British surrealist painter,
collagist, writer and lecturer.

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,
Oscar DomĂ­nguez and Salvador DalĂ­, he rejected
academic painting in favour of techniques that
expressed the surrealistic spirit of rebellion. 
Maddox officially joined 'The Surrealist Group in
England' 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 World War II,
Scotland Yard suspected him of fifth columnist
sabotage and mounted a surprise raid to seize
works thought to contain coded messages to the
enemy. 

In 1948 he married Nan Burton.  They had a
daughter and a son together, but had the marriage
dissolved in 1955.  He died in London, aged 92.

==References==
*Silvano Levy, The Scandalous Eye: The Surrealism
of Conroy Maddox, Liverpool University Press,
2003, 292 pages, ISBN 0853235597.

==External links==

*
http://news.independent.co.uk/low_res/story.jsp?st
ory=601076&host=3&dir=271 Obituary from the
Independent newspaper, 15 January 2005 
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-1443666
,00.html Obituary from The Times newspaper, 17
January 2005 
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/ne
ws/2005/01/21/db2103.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/01/21
/ixportal.html Obituary from the Daily Telegraph
newspaper, 21 January 2005