Ged Quinn was born in Liverpool in 1963 and he is an English. He studied at the Ruskin in Oxford, the Slade School Of Art in London, The Kunstakademie Dusseldorf, and the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam.
He specialises in allegorical paintings which include contemporary images (generally on controversial topics in Western cultural history) in idyllic scenes based on classical paintings such as the pastoral works of Caspar David Friedrich and Claude Lorrain.
His Cross in the Wilderness introduces a miniature Spanau Prison, the iconic jail for Nazi war criminals, into a forest scene based on Der Chasseur im Walde by Friedrich, a leading painter in German Romanticism. Another painting, Darkening of the Green, places the controversial HM Prison Maze into a rural landscape.
Ged has exhibited internationally in many shows including Language of the Wall at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Ljublinia, Slovenia, The Real Ideal at the Millennium Galleries in Sheffield, abd Showcase at the City Art Centre in Edinburgh. He is represented by Wilkinson Gallery which is in London.
Ged was also the keyboard player in the Liverpool group The Wild Swans which was a band. He was one of the three original core members, along with Paul Simpson and Jeremy Kelly, and played on their Zoo Records 12" single The Revolutionary Spirit/God Forbid released in 1982. He was also involved when the group reformed in 1986, although he left shortly afterwards to pursue his art career. A retrospective 2CD collection called Incandescent with Quinn appearing on all tracks, was released in 2003 by Renascent Records. However Quinn did not appear on either of the band's two albums for Sire Records later in the nineteen eighties.
In the interim between the Wild Swans Mks I and II he was also a member of another Liverpool band, The Lotus Eaters (new wave) and co-wrote their hit single The First Picture Of You.
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