Ken Currie

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Ken Currie (born 1960, North Shields, England) is a Scottish painter, one of the most influential living artists in Scotland. His paintings are displayed in public and museum collections world-wide.

Currie's paintings are concerned with how the human body is affected by illness, ageing and physical injury, social and political issues or philosophical questions.

He was labelled as one of the New Glasgow Boys along with Peter Howson, Adrian Wisniewski and the late Steven Campbell who studied together at the Glasgow School of Art.

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He has a daughter called Eilidh Currie Her best friends are Clara Pirie & Lisa Wright