Ken Currie, who was born in 1960 in North Shields, studied at the Glasgow School of Art. He used industrial Glasgow as the subject of his early work, with paintings that followed a linear 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 his feelings of disgust of contemporary society. Since his graduation in 1983, he has specialised in grim socio-realist subjects inspired from his working class background. Currie examines the brutality and poverty of the urban life in Scotland. From the mid-1990s, Currie focused on individuals instead of crowds, and painted these with haunting, luminous colours.
Ken Currie is an important artist for Dunnottar, because the styles he uses such as applying thick oil paint and beeswax, which gives a sense of real skin, and adds great texture, which contrasts with the raw texture of the castle walls. I put his paintings in the dungeon of the castle as this brings out the grimness of his work to reality.
Gallowgate Lard, 1995-6
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