Name/TitleKenny's Head
MakerDonachie, Jacqueline
Maker RolePhotographer and Artist
About this objectConceptual art / photographic publication with a wraparound photographic image of a white, hetero couple dancing in the dusk with city lights behind them, and inside titled 'Kenny's Head' by Jacqueline Donachie. Edition of 1,500 copies. 'Kenny's Head' was the second part of 'The Trees, The Book and The Disc', a public project for Darnley, Glasgow by Donachie, commissioned by Visual Arts Projects for Darnley 2000 Consortium.
Medium and MaterialsOrganic, paper
MeasurementsH: 148 x W: 105 x D: 8 mm
Date Made1999
Period1990s
Place MadeScotland, Glasgow
Place NotesVisual Arts Projects, 14 King Street, Glasgow G1 5QP
PublisherVisual Arts Projects
Publication Date1999
Publication PlaceScotland, Glasgow
Subject and Association Descriptionhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacqueline_Donachie:
Jacqueline Donachie (born 1969) is a Scottish artist who uses drawing, photography, sculpture and installation. She lives and works in Glasgow, Scotland. Donachie studied fine art from 1987 to 1991 at the Glasgow School of Art. She graduated from the School's Environmental Art department, which encouraged artists to place their work in a variety of public contexts outside the gallery space. She completed a Masters of Fine Art at Hunter College, New York in 1996. Donachie was one of a group of artists who helped establish Glasgow in the 1990s as one of the world's most dynamic contemporary art communities. There has been a retrospective exploring this body of work in Glasgow, which was called Generation [continues].
https://www.jacquelinedonachie.co.uk/the-trees-the-book-and-the-disc-1999:
The Darnley Estate, Glasgow
Permanent public work:
concrete disc, monkey puzzle trees and artist’s book
Commissioned by Visual Arts Projects for the Darnley estate, Glasgow
Blondes versus Blondes, 1999
Screenprint on Somerset Satin White, edition of 50, 52 x 72cm
Subject and Association Keywordscontemporary art & design
Subject and Association KeywordsGlasgow history
Named CollectionGlasgow Women's Library
Object TypeBook
ISBN/ISSN0 902860 00 4
Object numberGWL-2025-68-1-1
Spine LabelJACQUELINE DONACHIE ~ KENNY'S HEAD ~ 1998 / 99
Copyright LicenceAll rights reserved