Ged Quinn
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Ged Quinn (born 1963, Liverpool, UK) is an artist.
Quinn has studied at the Ruskin [1] in Oxford, Slade School of Art [2] in London the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf [3] and the Rijksakademie Amsterdam [4].
Quinn has exhibited internationally in many shows including “Language of the Wall” at the Museum of Contemporary Art [5] in Ljubliania, Slovenia, “The Real Ideal” at the Millennium Galleries [6] in Sheffield and “Showcase” at the City Art Gallery [7] in Edinburgh. Quinn is represented by Wilkinson Gallery [8] in London.
Ged Quinn’s works have the look of classic paintings from bygone times. This is because he does in fact base many of his compositions on other paintings, a popular point of reference being Claude Lorrain, a 17th century French landscape artist. Quinn’s images are packed full of references and symbolic information which is often much more subtle and obscure than quoting other paintings; Quinn’s works function as massively codified allegorical tales that point out and question the nature of historical events when placed in different contexts and alongside other cultural events, often mythical or fictional. This calls into doubt the reliability, import and worthiness of history and commonly accepted truths rooted in apparent past events, each investigation wrapped up in one highly accomplished painting clever enough to speak equally on a purely aesthetic level as well as imparting its critical message.
