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Alexander McCall Smith: Photography has its place, but painted portraits provide a more evocative depiction of who we are

Alexander McCall Smith: Photography has its place, but painted portraits provide a more evocative depiction of who we are
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Ken Currie: Unknown Man Scottish National Portrait Gallery - Clare Henry

/ Rarely can a portrait, including a dead body under a sheet, have created such a powerful, immediate, critical and public response.  Ken Currie, undoubtedly among the most significant painters of our time, is known for his dark side, his bleak, black pictures of haggard figures and harrowing happening, tortured flesh, forensic finales, illness, death. Long before Co-vid, he recognised the fragility, vulnerability and desperate aspects of human life and, never flinching, captured them with an evocative intensity. Ken Currie Unknown Man Death is also central to this new work. Yet, it is transformed into a welcome statement about power for good, knowledge as key, medicine’s possibility to resolve problems, and – in the right hands, a consoling ability to reveal lost identity.

Scottish National Portrait Gallery to reopen with new Ken Currie work

The Scottish National Portrait Gallery is to reopen on Friday with a new Ken Currie work depicting forensic anthropologist Professor Dame Sue Black. Arriving at the National Galleries of Scotland (NGS) on a long-term loan directly from the artist, the large portrait is titled Unknown Man and shows Professor Black in surgical robes standing behind the covered remains of a body. The pair met during a BBC Radio 4 discussion programme on the relationship between art and anatomy. Currie then visited the Centre for Anatomy and Human Identification at the University of Dundee, where Professor Black then was director, and was so moved by her work he asked her to sit for a portrait.

Scottish National Portrait Gallery to reopen with new Ken Currie work

Scottish National Portrait Gallery to reopen with new Ken Currie work
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Scottish National Portrait Gallery to reopen with new Ken Currie work

Scottish National Portrait Gallery to reopen with new Ken Currie work
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