Gallowgate Lard

Artist Ken Currie (North Shields, England, born 1960)

Date1995 - 1996

Mediumoil and beeswax on canvas

ClassificationsPaintings And Drawings

Dimensions100 × 78 × 4.2cm

AcquisitionPurchased in 1997 with assistance from the National Fund for Acquisitions.

LocationOn Display - Gallery 18

Object numberABDAG012120

Keywords

Self-Portrait

About MeSince graduating from Glasgow School of Art in 1983 Currie has specialised in grim, socio-realist subjects inspired by his own working class background. In his recent work he has examined the brutality and poverty of urban life in Scotland through deeply disturbing images. This work, painted in thick oil paint, the surface (to rather macabre effect) given further texture and a sense of real skin by the addition of beeswax, is, in simple terms, a self portrait. More than that it is a comment on life itself; not the more usually depicted pleasant aspects of life, but as Currie sees it and has always seen it - a struggle for survival.

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Did you do a double-take when you saw this striking self-portrait? Do you find it creepy, haunting, emotional, interesting? The artist conveys the unpleasant aspects of his life and surroundings.

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