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Ken Currie: Red Ground
Provocative meditations on violence in its many guises
Bird People ( after JM), 2018 (c) Ken Currie, Courtesy of Flowers Gallery London and New York
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THESE rich and luminous paintings by Ken Currie, depicting mysterious rites and quasi-medical practices, typify the Glasgow-based artist’s unsettling portrayals of the human figure.
Currently on show at Flowers Gallery in east London, they depict the damage inflicted by war and conflict, illness and decay in a visceral response to brutality and suffering in contemporary society.
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