John Granville Colpoys Keane (born 12 September 1954) is a British artist, whose paintings have contemporary political and social themes. [1] [2]
John Keane was born in Harpenden, Hertfordshire, England. [3] He was educated at Wellington College (1968–72) and Camberwell School of Art [4] (1972–76).
He is a political painter, whose subjects often concern contentious political, social and military issues. [5] [6]
In 1990, the Imperial War Museum commissioned him as an official war artist in the Gulf War. [5] [7] [8]
2001–02, he exhibited paintings which were derived from an expedition with Greenpeace during their campaign in the Amazon against illegal logging. [4]
In 2002, he painted Mo Mowlam, former Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. [5] The original idea was to represent her with other major figures in the Good Friday Agreement ( Gerry Adams, John Hume and David Trimble), but four years of talks as to where the individuals should be placed ended with Trimble's withdrawal and the plan was abandoned. [9]
In 2004, he toured his show, The Inconvenience of History, internationally. This was based on trips in liaison with Christian Aid to the West Bank and Gaza Strip. [4] He also worked on paintings about the 2002 Moscow Theatre siege, using documentary footage as a source: "The process has continued my methods of developing the imagery with the aid of a computer, prior to committing paint to canvas in works both large and small scale." [4]
In 2006, 57 Hours in the House of Culture was a show at Flowers East gallery, London, and Sakharov Museum, Moscow, about the Chechen War. [4]
His more recent work, Guantanamerica, bases paintings about "issues of representation and dehumanisation of detainees at Guantánamo Bay" on low resolution internet files. [4]
In 2010, he became known for a commissioned portrait of the former Secretary General of the UN Kofi Annan. [10] [11] [12] [13]
In November 2019, along with other public figures, Keane signed a letter supporting Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn describing him as "a beacon of hope in the struggle against emergent far-right nationalism, xenophobia and racism in much of the democratic world" and endorsed him in the 2019 UK general election. [14]
He is a visiting research fellow at Camberwell College of Arts.
These include: [4]
Exhibition Catalogues
Monographs
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John Granville Colpoys Keane (born 12 September 1954) is a British artist, whose paintings have contemporary political and social themes. [1] [2]
John Keane was born in Harpenden, Hertfordshire, England. [3] He was educated at Wellington College (1968–72) and Camberwell School of Art [4] (1972–76).
He is a political painter, whose subjects often concern contentious political, social and military issues. [5] [6]
In 1990, the Imperial War Museum commissioned him as an official war artist in the Gulf War. [5] [7] [8]
2001–02, he exhibited paintings which were derived from an expedition with Greenpeace during their campaign in the Amazon against illegal logging. [4]
In 2002, he painted Mo Mowlam, former Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. [5] The original idea was to represent her with other major figures in the Good Friday Agreement ( Gerry Adams, John Hume and David Trimble), but four years of talks as to where the individuals should be placed ended with Trimble's withdrawal and the plan was abandoned. [9]
In 2004, he toured his show, The Inconvenience of History, internationally. This was based on trips in liaison with Christian Aid to the West Bank and Gaza Strip. [4] He also worked on paintings about the 2002 Moscow Theatre siege, using documentary footage as a source: "The process has continued my methods of developing the imagery with the aid of a computer, prior to committing paint to canvas in works both large and small scale." [4]
In 2006, 57 Hours in the House of Culture was a show at Flowers East gallery, London, and Sakharov Museum, Moscow, about the Chechen War. [4]
His more recent work, Guantanamerica, bases paintings about "issues of representation and dehumanisation of detainees at Guantánamo Bay" on low resolution internet files. [4]
In 2010, he became known for a commissioned portrait of the former Secretary General of the UN Kofi Annan. [10] [11] [12] [13]
In November 2019, along with other public figures, Keane signed a letter supporting Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn describing him as "a beacon of hope in the struggle against emergent far-right nationalism, xenophobia and racism in much of the democratic world" and endorsed him in the 2019 UK general election. [14]
He is a visiting research fellow at Camberwell College of Arts.
These include: [4]
Exhibition Catalogues
Monographs
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