Kenny Hunter
Jimmy Reid, 1932 - 2010. Clydeside trade union activist; writer and journalist
About this artwork
Hunter's tribute to this famous trade-union activist wittily subverts our usual expectations of the dignified portrait bust. Made of bright red fibre-glass, not white marble, and placed on an ordinary table rather than a grand plinth, Jimmy Reid is larger than life than life and distinctly anti-establishment. Reid worked in the Clyde shipyards in his native Glasgow and helped lead the famous work-in of 1971.
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artist:Kenny HunterScottish (born 1962)
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title:Jimmy Reid, 1932 - 2010. Clydeside trade union activist; writer and journalist
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date created:1999
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materials:Coloured fibreglass
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measurements:83.00 x 83.00 cm
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credit line:Commissioned 1999
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accession number:PG 3154
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artwork photographed by:Antonia Reeve
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Kenny Hunter
Kenny Hunter
Born and raised in Edinburgh, Sculptor Kenny Hunter studied at Glasgow School of Art from 1983 to 1987. His work is heavily influenced by plastic toys, in the colours and flawless finish he uses for his sculptures. Hunter sees this as related to classical sculptors who worked with marble until no...