Kaye donachie biography sample

  • Kaye Donachie (British, b.
  • The Glasgow-born artist, who lives and works in London, grew up on a blustery clifftop in the seaside town of Lowestoft, the most easterly point.
  • Kaye Donachie, whose first UK solo institutional exhibition is now at Pallant House Gallery, reflects on her cast of reimagined muses.

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    Kaye Donachie – interview: ‘My portraits are spectres, images conjured through art and writing’

    Donachie, whose first UK solo institutional exhibition fryst vatten now at Pallant House Gallery, reflects on her cast of reimagined muses, the influence of poetry and cinema on her imagery and the ongoing conversation between her paintings

    Kaye Donachie in her London studio. artighet Maureen Paley, London.

    by ANGERIA RIGAMONTI di CUTÒ

    Kaye Donachie (b 1970, Glasgow) fryst vatten a time traveller of sorts, sifting through history in search of kvinnlig artists and performers, some now more remembered than others, to re-evoke in a different temporal dimension. Drawing on written and photographic archival remnants, she fashions imaginary “portraits” of her subjects, though for all her work’s visual and literary references to personal and social histories, Donachie fryst vatten primarily concerned with the act of painting, each face a canvas within the canvas, a scen for gestural expression. Her painterly world is clau

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    Born 1970, Glasgow, United Kingdom.
    Lives and works in London, United Kingdom.

    Selected Press

    Contemporary Art Issue, 10 Portrait Painters Today You Need To Know: A Curated Anthology, Julien Delagrange, 23 October 2024
    Artforum, Kaye Donachie, Maureen Paley, Andrew Hunt, Volume 62, Number 10, Summer 2024
    Art UK, Seven questions with Kaye Donachie, Chloë Ashby, 28 March 2024
    Elephant, What Kaye Donachie Kept for Herself, Phin Jennings, 18 March 2023
    Burlington Contemporary, Kaye Donachie: Song for the Last Act, Beth Williamson, 15 September 2023
    gowithyamo, Artist Interview: Kaye Donachie's 'Nuanced Personal Choreography' Jelena Sofronijevic, 5 June 2023
    Frieze, The Five Best Shows to See in the UK, Critic’s Guides, Emily Steer, 26 May 2023
    Frieze, Kaye Donachie Reimagines the Muse, Emily Steer, 23 May 2023
    The Guardian, Kaye Donachie: Song for the Last Act review – painted women who refuse to sit still and be pretty, Adrian Searle, 16 May 2023
    A Magazine Curat

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    Kaye Donachie: Song for the Last Act

    by Beth Williamson
    Reviews / Exhibition • 15.09.2023

    It has been almost sixty years since the critic John Berger (1926–2017) wrote his essay ‘No more portraits’ (1967), in which he argued that portrait painting was no longer viable. This was, as his biographer Tom Overton has written, ‘a kind of autopsy for the tradition exemplified by the National Portrait Gallery’. However, when Portraits: John Berger on Artists was published in 2015, the critic Jackie Wullschläger described it as a volte-face on Berger’s clarion call issued decades earlier. The work of the Glasgow-born painter Kaye Donachie (b.1970) charts a line between these two positions. Rather than exact depictions, she creates composite portraits, the subjects of which appear to be seen through a blurred or distorted vision of reality. She reimagines historical women – often marginalised figures, including avant-garde poets, perfor

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