KEN CURRIE (BRITISH, b.1960), 'HUNG GULL, NORTH UIST', 2015, etching, signed, titled, dated and numbered, 1/40, in pencil, (72 x 51cm). NOTES: A graduate of Glasgow School of Art (1978-1983) Ken Currie is an eminent Scottish artist and one of the New Glasgow Boys along with contemporaries Peter Howson, Adrian Wisniewski and the late Steven Campbell who also studied together at the GSA. Currie grew up in industrial Glasgow which played a significant influence on his early works. During the 1980s, Currie’s art celebrated a romanticised red Clydeside of heroic shipyard workers and firebrand shop stewards and was a political response to the policies of Margaret Thatcher, who he believed was destroying the culture of labour. The artist’s focus may have moved on from Scotland’s labour history to deeper, more universal questions of mortality and the human condition, but he still felt the demise of his bête noire should be marked. PROVENANCE: Gifted by the artist to ESOP.