Kaye Donachie

Kaye Donachie’s paintings are concerned with exploring spaces that reveal hidden or coercive power structures. From within the architecture and sense of place the ordered, secret, ritualistic elements reveal themselves as a web of signs. As part of ‘The movement began with a scandal’ Donachie has produced new paintings whose source reflect the historiography of the Lenbachhaus Museum and the Blue Rider…

aye Donachie uses found footage of rebellious and revolutionary groups as source material to investigate group dynamics and power structures…

n the past, Donachie has focused her attention on two flash point images in the history of 20th century counter-culture; hippie communes and political radicals of the 1960’s where previous subjects have included actors Mark Frechette and Daria Halprin (who starred in Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1970 film Zabriskie Point) and members of the Charles Manson family…

American Frontier

Donachie was born in 1970 in Glasgow and currently lives and works in London. She has received a BA from University of Central England…