Hawksmoor


Biography Hawksmoor



James McKeown aka Hawksmoor
is a British Postwar & Contemporary painter who was born in 1961. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Galerie 26 have featured James MacKeown's work in the past.James MacKeown's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 82 USD to 6,595 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2004 the record price for this artist at auction is 6,595 USD for THE BALCONY, sold at Whyte's in 2006. In MutualArt’s artist press archive, James MacKeown is featured in Colour in Art: A Brief History of Blue Pigment, a piece from BBC News in September 2019.

Musician James McKeown, better known in the heady electronic music world as Hawksmoor, has put out some of the most forward thinking and far out heavy synth albums in the last couple years. Albums like Methods Of Dreaming, On Prescription, as well as his collaboration with The Heartwood Institute Concrete Island have demonstrated McKeown’s knack for building these crystalline, retro-futuristic sonic palaces. Whole worlds with vintage synths, electric bass, and an overall feeling of finding some long lost album from the mid-70s that combines Tangerine Dream, Pink Floyd, and a Jodorowsky film score.

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