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Ken Currie (b.1960) Glasgow Life Museums. Scottish painter, the most overtly political of the *Glasgow School which emerged in the 1980s. Born in North Shields to Scottish parents, he studied at *Glasgow School of Art between 1978 and 1983.
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Ken Currie (born 1960 in North Shields, North Tyneside, England) is a Scottish artist and a graduate of Glasgow School of Art (1978–1983). Ken grew up in industrial Glasgow. This has had a significant influence on his early works.
Scottish artist Currie studied at the Glasgow School of Art. He used industrial Glasgow as the subject of his early work, with paintings that were linear in style and modelled in block-like forms. In the early 1990s, Currie was much affected by political and humanitarian events in Eastern Europe.
Jan 15, 2015 · A graduate of Glasgow School of Art (1978-1983) Ken Currie is an eminent Scottish artist and one of the New Glasgow Boys along with contemporaries Peter Howson, Adrian Wisniewski and the late Steven Campbell who also studied together at the GSA.
Currie studied at the Glasgow School of Art from 1978-1983 and rose to attention within a generation of painters known as the "New Glasgow Boys" in the 1980s. In 1987, Currie completed a powerful series of large scale History paintings for the People’s Palace in Glasgow, commemorating the massacre of the Calton Weavers.
Ken Currie (born 1960 in North Shields, North Tyneside, England) is a Scottish artist and a graduate of Glasgow School of Art (1978–1983). Ken grew up in industrial Glasgow. This has had a significant influence on his early works. In the 1980s Currie produced a series of works that romanticised Red Clydeside depicting heroic Dockworkers, Shop ...
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Currie studied at the Glasgow School of Art, where he developed his artistic vision and sharpened his painting skills. He has gained international recognition for his powerful and thought-provoking work, which often features bleak and haunting images of the human form.
