Kaye Donachie (born 1970 in

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) is a contemporary British painter based in

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. Her modest-sized, figurative paintings make use of figurative imagery relating to modernism, domesticity, longing, and utopian counter-cultural movements. Stacy Martin describes her most recent show as embodying a "fascination with heroines and literary inspiration

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runs throughout all her projects along with her subtle nods to romanticism making for a collection that is more 'poetic than narrative' in effect." Donachie shows at Peres Projects in Berlin and

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in London. Her work has been reviewed in ''Frieze'' and ''Artforum''.

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