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John Mckenzie (Paperback)
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John Mckenzie (Paperback)
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It is rare for a creative artist to work in the privacy of his
garden shed, in a challenging medium, and almost entirely for his
own pleasure, but such a one was the slate-carver, John McKenzie.
His day job was working as a steward in the Petty Officers' Mess
aboard H.M.S. Condor, the Fleet Air Arm Training School at
Arbroath, Angus, on the east coast of Scotland. McKenzie's work is
totally unpretentious, but it reveals a cultivated familiarity with
the carvings of ancient Babylon and Mesopotamia, as well as
classical mythology, suggesting that as a boy he had haunted
Kelvingrove Art Gallery - and may have continued to do so - as well
the public libraries of Glasgow and Arbroath. A list of the hundred
and twelve carvings that were still in his possession at the time
of his death exists, but forty years on we will never know what
books he had on his shelves, what postcards, photographs and
cuttings from the local paper, what references he used. John
McKenzie may have worked in solitude but it is clear that he did
not work in isolation.
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