Ken currie biography
Ken currie artist.
Ken currie biography
Ken Currie
Scottish artist
For the Scottish football player, see Ken Currie (footballer).
Ken Currie (born 1960 in North Shields, North Tyneside, England) is a Scottish painter working out of Glasgow.
His paintings have been described as dark and violent.[2][3]
Education & Works
Currie grew up in Barrhead.[3] He started studying at the Glasgow School of Art in 1978 and graduated in 1983.[4] In the late 1980s he was gaining attention as part of the "New Glasgow Boys", a group of young Scottish figurative painters, containing among others Peter Howson, Adrian Wiszniewski and Steven Campbell.[3]
Throughout the 1980s, Currie's work depicted heroic workers and revolutionary union representatives as part of a bigger "socialist Clydeside".
This is seen as a response to the policies of then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.[5] Currie was involved with the Communist Party and describes his political views at the time