Ken Currie | |
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Born | 1960 (age 63–64) |
Nationality | Scottish |
Education | Glasgow School of Art |
Known for | Painting, Printmaking |
Notable work | Three Oncologists, Portrait of Peter Higgs, Chimera |
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-stewards and urban areas along the River Clyde.[1][2] These works were also in response to then British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's policies that he believed were the greatest threat to culture of labour.