Keith Farquhar, artist and art
Born 1969, Birth Edinburgh, Scotland.
The artist lives and works in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Style and technique, exhibitions: Installation art, Sculpture Objects, Athens Biennale,Artist biography, artworks, statement, interview, review, exhibition:
Auctions & Auction Results
From leading auction houses worldwide, Keith Farquhar on Mutualart
Artist’s website
Works and biography
It’s about dragging the stuff that surrounds you into a place that you find beautiful.
V-Necks Vs Round-Necks. Pringle jumpers, golf clubs and mixed media
‘Come To The Shops Dear’ and other works online
Vagina (Red, blue, yellow)
There’s a totemic quality to Farquhar’s ‘Pringle’ pieces, a sense that they are contemporary objects of faith. The spear-wielding sweaters in his earlier Community Hot Spots are a case in point. Half Lascaux cave painting, half a coded reference to the sleeve of Roxy Music’s Flesh and Blood (1980), they’re a shamanistic invocation of football casuals‚ up-for-it aggression and slick art school cool…
