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  • Talking Headless - Once Upon a Time Back in the Studio..

    27 April 2026

    Once upon a time in the studio... Float 2015, oil/linen 200x200cm. When the painting was going well sometimes I just liked to have a little dance when no-one was looking. Stumbling across this little video again I find myself slightly disturbed that I am largely headless - a macabre resonance perhaps.. And also the completely random soundtrack of Talking Heads 'And She Was', which just happened to be playing: 'The world was moving, she was floating above it, and she was.. This had no link to the title of my painting, which was more to do with Isis hostages being drowned.

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  • 1992 Imperial war Museum interview with John Keane now online

    John Keane talks to Lyn Smith about his Gulf War experiences for the Imperial war Museum Archive

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  • HEALTH WORKERS 4 PALESTINE FUNDRAISING AUCTION

    14 July 2025

    I have donated this print to Voices of Solidarity online auction wh o are helping raise funds for the @healthworkers4palestine Solidarity Fund alongside the event taking place on July 19th at @troxylondon.

    🇵🇸 Support Gaza's health workers by bidding on unique gifts from film and theatre memorabilia, life experiences, and wellness treatments to clothing, jewellery, and opportunities to meet or zoom with A listers, doctors, writers, and activists.

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  • Here&Queer..?!

    12 June 2025

    Keywords: community practice, Here&Queer, class, disability (& the Nottinghamshire Coal Miners)

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  • Life After Painting: The Jackdaw, May/June 2025

    Life After Painting: The Jackdaw, May/June 2025

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  • Why I stopped painting

    Why I stopped painting

    29 April 2025

    SEPTEMBER 2021.

    It its now nearly forty years since I was able to renounce my previous short-lived careers as cleaner, waiter, civil service clerk or scenic painter to make a living solely from the sale of my own work.

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  • The scene from Love Actually shot in my studio in 2002..

    Andrew Lincoln admits he loves Keira Knightley her in this rather creepy scene.. and somehow magically steps out through my Shoreditch doorway to find himself on the South bank of the Thames..

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  • Independent on Sunday, March 2006: The Moscow Theatre Siege as seen by John Keane, by Robin Muir

    Independent on Sunday March 2006 Robin Muir

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  • On Ukraine

    Thoughts on the war in Ukraine, July 2023

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  • Power, Politics, Planet: A Brief History Of John Keane

    06 April 2023 – 20 April 2023

    Dreweatts, 16-17 Pall Mall St James’s London SW1Y 5LU

    Online auction

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  • 57 Hours In The House Of Culture : Promo

    Play National Theatre Studio workshop 2010

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    National Theatre Studio workshop 2010
  • John Keane Is Guest No.163 On Mike Fenton Stevens Excellent 'my Time Capsule', Feb 2022

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  • John Keane On An Owl Butterfly Gilded Birds Dec 7 2021

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  • Artist John Keane Has Provided Us With A More Weighted Account Of A Moment With Sid Vicious That Will Go Down In Infamy.'

    FAR OUT MAGAZINE September 2021

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  • 2020 Hindsight

    03 December 2020

    STUDIO SHOW AND SALE

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  • John Keane In Conversation With Philip Dodd

    Play Philip Dodd talks to John Keane about the exhibition VIRAL

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    Philip Dodd talks to John Keane about the exhibition VIRAL
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