Ken Currie (born 1960, North Shields, England) is a Scottish painter, one of the most influential living artists in Scotland. Year 1960 ( MCMLX) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. North Shields (or locally just Shields) is a town on the north bank of the River Tyne, in the metropolitan borough of North Tyneside, in North England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland Scotland ( Gaelic: Alba) is a Country in northwest Europethat occupies the northern third of the island of Great Britain. His paintings are displayed in public and museum collections world-wide.
Currie's paintings are concerned with how the human body is affected by illness, ageing and physical injury, social and political issues or philosophical questions. The human body is the entire physical and mental structure of a Human Organism. Illness (sometimes referred to as ill-health or ail) can be defined as a state of poor Health. Ageing or aging (American English is the accumulation of changes in an organism Injury or bodily injury is Damage or Harm caused to the Structure or function of the Body caused by an outside agent or Definition In the absence of agreement about its meaning the term "social" is used in many different senses referring among other things to attitudes Politics Politics is the process by which groups of people make decisions Philosophy is the study of general problems concerning matters such as existence knowledge truth beauty justice validity mind and language
He was labelled as one of the New Glasgow Boys along with Peter Howson, Adrian Wisniewski and the late Steven Campbell who studied together at the Glasgow School of Art. Peter Howson (born 1958 is an Scottish painter. He was an official war artist in the 1993 Bosnian Civil War Steven Campbell (] - August 15, 2007) was a Scottish artist mainly concerned with pictorial representation Glasgow School of Art is one of four independent art schools in Scotland, situated in the Garnethill area of Glasgow.
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He has a daughter called Eilidh Currie Her best friends are Clara Pirie & Lisa Wright
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