Ken Currie

[4] In the late 1980s he was gaining attention as part of the "New Glasgow Boys", a group of young Scottish figurative painters, containing among others Peter Howson, Adrian Wiszniewski and Steven Campbell.

[3] Throughout the 1980s, Currie's work depicted heroic workers and revolutionary union representatives as part of a bigger "socialist Clydeside".

[6] In 1987 Carrie finished an eight-piece series of large-scale paintings of the massacre of the Calton weavers of 1787, which was the violent suppression of a strike by the British Army, resulting in " Scotland's first working-class martyrs".

[4][8] Starting with the early 1990s Currie began to be emotionally affected by the political and humanitarian crises in Eastern Europe, such as the Yugoslav Wars.

[9] Following on from this meeting, Currie was invited to Professor Black's workplace at the University of Dundee, where she gave him a tour of the dissection room.

[10] Currie's paintings show a profound interest in the body (physical and metaphorical) and deeply explores the theme of mortality, which he called a "terror" later in his life.