Ken currie artist biography

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 Ken Currie's Art For Sale, Exhibitions & Biography | Ocula Artist BUZA