[Visual Description: An grand interior space with six female figures all in silhouette and all wearing elaborate 15th century costumes. There is an open door in the far right of the image with a mysterious male figure, also obscured in darkness.]
Ken Currie was born in 1960 in North Shields, England, however, was brought up in Glasgow, a city which carries deep associations with the artist. He studied painting at the Glasgow School of Art, graduating in 1983. He is featured in the group known as "The New Glasgow Boys", alongside Peter Howson, Adrian Wiszniewski and Steven Campbell, who studied contemporaneously at the Glasgow School of Art.
Currie’s relationship with Glasgow Print Studio goes back to the early 80s, and he has published numerous editions with GPS. Currie 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. He began to depict decaying and damaged bodies, as a response to what he felt was the sickness of contemporary society.
