MARIA DUARTE, FIONA O’CONNOR and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Savage House, Enzo, Madfabulous, and Erupcja
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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
CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
KENNY MacASKILL relishes a fictionalised account of the life and death of the principled Irish anti-colonialist, executed for betraying his English imperial masters
FIONA O’CONNOR admires an ambitious first novel that loosens South Africa’s rainbow collective to examine the racial tensions within
Aussie mining corporation murder, Liverpudlian ex-cop amnesia, a naive vigilante tries to reset capitalism, and the riddle of the dead psychoanalyst
SYLVIA HIKINS is persuaded by an entertaining play that the true miracle of Lourdes would be for attitudes toward disability to change
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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