About this artwork
This etching shows Professor Robert Steele who appears in the painting Three Oncologists by Ken Currie (he is the figure on the left). As the oncologists were unable to gather together for the artist to observe them, Currie decided to make life masks of their faces. Professor Steele is shown having wet plaster layers applied to his face in preparation for a life mask to be made. He recently retired from the University of Dundee’s School of Medicine. During his career he oversaw the introduction of the Scottish Colorectal Cancer Screening Programme.
Published March 2024
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artist:Ken Currie (born 1960) Scottish
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title:A Life Mask
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date created:2015
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materials:Etching on paper
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measurements:52.00 x 62.00 cm
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object type:
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credit line:Purchased 2016
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accession number:PG 3759
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Ken Currie
Ken Currie
Scottish artist Currie studied at the Glasgow School of Art. He used industrial Glasgow as the subject of his early work, with paintings that were linear in style and modelled in block-like forms. In the early 1990s, Currie was much affected by political and humanitarian events in Eastern Europe....
