Francis McKee

Who is Francis McKee?

Francis McKee is an Irish writer and curator working in Glasgow.

From 2005 - 2008 he was director of Glasgow International, and since 2006 he has been the Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow. He is a lecturer and research fellow at Glasgow School of Art, working on the development of open source ideologies. He curated the Scottish participation at the Venice Biennale with Kay Pallister in 2003.

Francis McKee has written extensively on the work of artists linked to Glasgow such as Christine Borland, Ross Sinclair, Douglas Gordon, Simon Starling and other international artists including Matthew Barney, Pipilotti Rist, Willie Doherty, Joao Penalva, Abraham Cruzvillegas and co-published books on the Icelandic Love Corporation and Salla Tykkä in collaboration with NIFCA. Francis McKee worked previously as an historian of medicine for the Wellcome Trust.