Jane Kelly - Britain’s most controversial artist?
August 17, 2009 by admin
Britains Most Controversial Artist?
Jane Kelly - 2004 -2009: A Retrospective
Hosted by Cristus Gallery
Friday 25th September 2009 - 18th October 2009
In 2004 Jane Kelly painted a picture of Myra Hindley. The painting lost Jane her job and caused her to embark on a search for truth and authenticity in art which continues until this day. Jane confronts us with murderers, dictators, religious figures, celebrities. She asks us to consider these people as human beings, not monsters or saints. And yet her controversial subject matter maintains and extends the great traditions of European painting.
“In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves”
Abraham J. Heschel, Philosopher, 1907-1972
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