About: Ken Currie

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Ken Currie (born 1960 in North Shields, Northumberland, 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. 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.

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  • Ken Currie (nascut el 1960 a North Shields, Northumberland, Anglaterra) és un artista escocès llicenciat a la Glasgow School of Art (1978 - 1983). Ken va viure a la zona industrial de Glasgow i això influí significativament en les seves obres primerenques. El 1980 Currie va produir una sèrie de feines que romantitzava la descripció de Red Clydeside heroica de Dockworkers, Shop-stewards i el nucli urbà al llarg de River Clyde. Aquestes obres eren també eren una resposta a les polítiques de la llavors Primera ministra britànica Margaret Thatcher a qui considerava l'amenaça més gran a la cultura obrera. (ca)
  • Ken Currie (born 1960 in North Shields, Northumberland, 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. 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. (en)
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  • Ken Currie in 2016 (en)
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  • Painting, Printmaking (en)
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  • Ken Currie (en)
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  • Glasgow School of Art (en)
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  • Three Oncologists, Portrait of Peter Higgs, Chimera (en)
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  • Ken Currie (nascut el 1960 a North Shields, Northumberland, Anglaterra) és un artista escocès llicenciat a la Glasgow School of Art (1978 - 1983). Ken va viure a la zona industrial de Glasgow i això influí significativament en les seves obres primerenques. El 1980 Currie va produir una sèrie de feines que romantitzava la descripció de Red Clydeside heroica de Dockworkers, Shop-stewards i el nucli urbà al llarg de River Clyde. Aquestes obres eren també eren una resposta a les polítiques de la llavors Primera ministra britànica Margaret Thatcher a qui considerava l'amenaça més gran a la cultura obrera. (ca)
  • Ken Currie (born 1960 in North Shields, Northumberland, 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. 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. (en)
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