Scottish artist Ken Currie has created some of the most confrontational and intriguing paintings in the contemporary art world - and has made a major contribution to left culture with his depictions of Clyde dock workers and shop stewards in the 1980s, and the Glasgow History Mural in the Peoples' Palace. He is now perhaps best known for portraits (group and single) which communicate how the human body is affected by the experiences and traumas of ageing, disease and injury - powerful works which cannot fail to move the viewer. A new book of his paintings and writings, compiled and edited by Tom Normand, is being published by Luath Press. It draws on Currie's studio journals and explores the motives and ambitions of his remarkable work.
The book is to be launched at the Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow on Saturday afternoon 9 December, and Currie will be speaking there. If you would like to get yourself onto the invite-only guest list, do contact Luath Press to see if there are any spaces left.
Published 27 November 2023.
Illustration: Currie's portrait of Peter Higgs, the theoretical physicist, which was commissioned by the University of Edinburgh and unveiled in 2009.